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José James at Glee Club
Courtesy of Joshua French | Posted on February 6, 2017
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Tue, May 2, 2017
19:30
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José James returns for a very special show, performing work from his stunning new LP, ‘Love in a Time of Madness’.
James had a very specific vision for his seventh album: “It’s the end of my jazz career. Completely.” Perhaps some clarification is in order. The New York singer and songwriter, who in 2015 dropped a full-album tribute to Billie Holiday (Yesterday I Had the Blues), is here reborn as a powerful voice in contemporary R&B. While this is a man who’s never been defined or confined by a genre, Love in a Time of Madness is something new: a focused foray into moody soul, electronic pop, and trap-addled beats, with the occasional influence of African folk, American gospel and—as befits our host’s upbringing—Minneapolitan funk...