Boney James

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Boney James (born James Oppenheim September 1, 1961) is an American saxophonist, recording artist, songwriter and record producer.

He is a four-time Grammy Award nominee (Best Pop Instrumental Album, 2001, 2004, 2014 and Best Traditional R&B Performance, 2009) and a Soul Train Award winner (Best Jazz Album 1998). He has also received three NAACP Image Award nominations for Best Jazz Album.[1] James has sold over four million albums,[2] and has accumulated four RIAA Certified Gold Records. In 2009, Billboard magazine named James one of the Top 3 Billboard Contemporary Jazz Artists of the Decade. In 2024 James became the first artist to notch twenty #1 singles on the Billboard magazine SJ Chart.[3]

Biography

Born in Lowell Massachusetts, James took up the clarinet at the age of eight, switching to sax when he was ten.[4] James spent his early teen years in New Rochelle, New York. He became musically influenced by the R&B Motown genre and saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr. When he was fourteen his family moved to Los Angeles, where he joined a fusion band that opened for acts like Flora Purim and the Yellowjackets. Another member of this early band was John Shanks, now a successful pop producer and guitarist with Bon Jovi.[5] James eventually received a degree in history from UCLA, but began playing music full-time after graduation. James learned to play keyboards and in 1985 he joined Morris Day's band. His R&B influence was further strengthened by seven years of touring and sessions as a sideman with Day, The Isley Brothers, Bobby Caldwell, Randy Crawford, Teena Marie and others. It was on the road with Crawford in 1986 that he earned his now-famous moniker, when his physique led a bandmate to joke "We'll have to start calling you 'Boney' James!"[6]

In the early 1990s, while on tour with Bobby Caldwell's band, he met engineer and producer Paul Brown, beginning a 10-year period of collaboration. In 1992 he released his debut album as a leader, Trust, on the independent record label Spindletop Records. Following the record's success, he was signed by the Warner Brothers label in 1994, on which he released the RIAA Certified Gold Records Seduction, Sweet Thing and Body Language albums.

In 2000 he collaborated with trumpeter Rick Braun on an album called Shake it Up. Their duets include the now classic updated version of Hugh Masakela's "Grazin' in the Grass". Other artists who have made guest appearances on Boney's records include October London, Lalah Hathaway, Raheem DeVaughn, Faith Evans, George Benson, George Duke, Dwele, Al Jarreau, Philip Bailey, Anthony Hamilton, Jaheim, Eric Benét, Dave Hollister, Stokley Williams, Avery*Sunshine, Kenny Lattimore and Angie Stone.

James began co-producing his records with Brown in 1997, and assumed the role of sole producer starting with his Grammy-nominated Pure album in 2003. Script error: No such module "anchor".Following a string of chart-topping albums, in 2006 James moved to Concord Records[5] and released Shine which posted his highest Billboard Pop Chart positions to that date (No. 44 on the Top 200). His 2009 album, Send One Your Love earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional R&B Performance. His 2013 album The Beat received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Album.

Returning home from a concert performance on May 15, 2010, his car was rear ended by a drunk driver, causing him a fractured jaw, two shattered teeth and facial lacerations which sidelined his career for two months.[7]

In 2014, he produced two songs on Al Jarreau's George Duke tribute album My Old Friend, "No Rhyme No Reason" (feat. Kelly Price) and "Bring Me Joy" (feat. George Duke).[8]

In 2015, he released futuresoul which spent eleven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart and was the best selling Contemporary Jazz Record of 2015.[9] In August 2015, James made his first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

2017 saw the release of Honestly, his sixteenth album, which became his eleventh No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart. It also reached No. 22 on the Billboard Current Albums Chart, his highest pop chart debut to date.[10]

June 2020 he released his seventeenth studio album Solid, describing it as "a reaction to how stressful the world feels these days. Music is a respite, it’s always ‘solid’ and never lets me down."[11] The CD broke his previous Pop Chart record, debuting at #10 on the Billboard Top Albums Chart.[12] His eighteenth album Detour was released on September 23, 2022.[13]

Personal life

James is married to actress and director Lily Mariye and in 2012 he contributed an original score to her directorial feature film debut, Model Minority.[14]

Discography

Studio albums

Year Album Label
1992 Trust Spindletop
1994 Backbone Warner Bros.
1995 Seduction
1997 Sweet Thing
1999 Body Language
2001 Ride
2004 Pure
2006 Shine Concord
2009 Send One Your Love
2011 Contact Verve
2013 The Beat Concord
2015 Futuresoul
2017 Honestly
2020 Solid
2022 Detour
2024 Slow Burn

Collaboration albums

Year Album Label
2000 Shake It Up – (with Rick Braun)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Warner Bros.

Holiday albums

Year Album Label
1996 Boney's Funky Christmas Warner Bros.
2007 Christmas Present Concord
2025 'Tis the Season

Score contributions

Year Album Label
2000 The Shangri-la Café Nice Girl
2012 Model Minority

Singles

Year Title Peak chart positions Album Ref.
Smooth Jazz
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2005 "2:01 A.M." 121 — Pure [17]
2006 "The Total Experience" (featuring George Duke)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 14 — Shine [18]
2007 "Hypnotic" 13 — [19]
2008 "Skating" 271 — Christmas Present [20]
"The First Noel" (featuring Rick Braun)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 291 — [21]
"Let It Go" 13 — Shine [22]
"The Way She Walks" 174 — [23]
2009 "Stop, Look, Listen" 18 — Send One Your Love [24]
"Send One Your Love" 52 — [25]
2010 "Touch" 61 — [26]
"I'll Be Good to You" 301 — [27]
2011 "Contact" 15 — Contact [28]
"Spin" 14 — [29]
2012 "Cry" 21 — [30]
"Deep Time" 101 — [31]
2013 "Batucada (The Beat)" (featuring Rick Braun)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 18 — The Beat [32]
"Powerhouse" 12 — [33]
2014 "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" 21 — [34]
"Sunset Boulevard" 44 — [35]
2015 "Drumline" 16 — Futuresoul [36]
"Vinyl" 12 — [37]
2016 "A Little Attitude" 11 — [38]
"Futuresoul" 141 — [39]
2017 "Tick Tock" 14 — Honestly [40]
2018 "On the Prowl" 13 — [41]
"Up All Night" 14 — [42]
2019 "Kicks" 151 — [43]
2020 "Solid" 11 — Solid [44]
"Full Effect" 12 — [45]
2021 "Tonic" 121 — [46]
"Sundance" 11 — [47]
2022 "Bring It Back" (featuring Dontae Winslow)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 11 — Detour [48]
"Coastin'" (featuring Lalah Hathaway)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". — 171Template:Hairspace[49] [50]
2023 "Detour" 63 — [51]
"Memphis" 21 — [52]
2024 "All I Want Is You" (featuring October London)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 232 — Slow Burn [53]
"Slide" 13 — [54]
2025 "Sugar" (featuring Rick Braun)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 21 — [55]
"The Bounce" 11 — [56]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Collaborations

Year Artist Title Peak chart positions Album Label Ref.
Smooth Jazz
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2012 Jonathan Fritzén "Magical" 13 — Magical Nordic Night [59]
2014 Al Jarreau (featuring George Duke) "Bring Me Joy" 51 — My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke Concord [60]
2018 Brian Simpson "Persuasion" 231 — Persuasion Shanachie [61]
2019 Peabo Bryson "Looking for Sade" 271 — Stand for Love Perspective [62]
2024 Big Mike Hart "Cigar Lounge" 13 — Modern Classic Rhythm Section [63]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

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