LISTEN TO NEW MUSIC! Boney James’ Single “A Little Attitude” Hits Billboard Chart | Announces Tour Dates for 2016
THIRD CONSECUTIVE TRACK FROM BONEY JAMES’ CHART-TOPPING FUTURESOUL ALBUM HITS #1 ON BILLBOARD’S SMOOTH JAZZ SONGS CHART AND MEDIABASE SMOOTH AC CHART
Third single “A Little Attitude” follows “Vinyl” (two weeks at #1) and “Drumline” (six weeks at #1)
Summer and fall tour dates announced
Four-time GRAMMY nominee Boney James’ dynamic futuresoulalbum burst out of the gate last year as a career high for the multi-platinum selling saxman. Released on May 4, 2015, futuresoul debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Current Jazz Albums and Contemporary Jazz Albums Charts, where it remained for 11 weeks.
This was James’ career highest Total Billboard Albums debut, at #41, a dramatic achievement for an instrumental artist. The album also debuted at #76 on the Top 200 and bubbled under the Top 20 on Billboard’s Adult R&B songs chart with the crossover single “Either Way,” featuring Stokley.
His 15th album, futuresoul contains 10 original songs produced and written or co-written by James. Also featured is rising-star trumpet player Marquis Hill (2014 winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Trumpet Competition) on the plaintive “Far From Home.” Other notable collaborations on the project are the title track, co-written and co-produced by neo-soul mainstay Dwele, and “Drumline” and “Watchu Gon’ Do About It?” with co-writer/co-producer Jairus Mozee (Anthony Hamilton, Robin Thicke).
futuresoul is James’ follow-up to The Beat (2013), which was nominated for a GRAMMY Award in the category of Best Pop Instrumental Album.
Over the years, James has racked up sales of more than three million records, four RIAA gold albums, four GRAMMY nominations, a Soul Train Award, nominations for two NAACP Image Awards and 10 CDs atop Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. In 2009, Billboard named him the #3 Contemporary Jazz Artist of The Decade (trailing just Kenny G and Norah Jones).
Boney James Tour Dates:
4/22 Pier Park Amphitheater-Sea Breeze Jazz Festival Panama City Beach FL
4/29 State Theatre Kalamazoo MI
4/30 The Palladium Carmel IN
5/1 Playhouse Square Cleveland OH
5/4 Buffalo State Performing Arts Center Buffalo NY
5/5 Bergen Performing Arts Center Englewood NJ
5/7 John Lyman Center New Haven CT
5/8 Byham Theater Pittsburgh PA
5/10 Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood FL
6/3 Linn Park-Steel City Jazz Festival Birmingham AL
6/4 Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater Nashville TN
6/11 Thornton Winery Temecula CA
6/18 Rodney Strong Vineyards Healdsburg CA
6/24 Horseshoe Casino Hammond IN
6/26 Hampton Coliseum Hampton VA
7/8 Jazz Alley (7:30 & 9:30) Seattle WA
7/9 Jazz Alley (7:30 & 9:30) Seattle WA
7/10 Jazz Alley (7:30 pm) Seattle WA
7/16 Cal State East Bay Hayward CA
7/17 Bonelli Regional Park San Dimas CA
7/29 Belk Theater Charlotte NC
8/10 Freedom Hill Sterling Heights MI
8/19 Charleston Music Hall Charleston SC
8/31 Wolf Trap Filene Center Vienna VA
9/2 Wolf Creek Amphitheater Atlanta GA
9/4 Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya Puerto Aventuras MEXICO
10/14 Back Bay Amphitheatre Newport Beach CA
10/15 Avalon Casino Ballroom Avalon CA
10/22 Mount Airy Casino Resort Mount Pocono PA
11/4 Township Auditorium Columbia SC
11/10 Fox Theatre Tucson AZ
11/11 Boulder Station Hotel/Casino Las Vegas NV
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