Boney James

Boney James at the Jazz Cafe, 2005

James "Boney James" Oppenheim (born September 1, 1961 in Lowell , Massachusetts ) is a saxophonist who popularized urban jazz (a further development of contemporary smooth jazz , which includes elements of hip-hop ).

Boney James was nominated twice for a Grammy and three of his albums went gold .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		US	R&B	jazz
1992	Trust	-	-	jazz35 (1 week) jazz	Chart entry only in 1994
1994	Backbone	-	-	jazz4 (48 weeks) jazz
1995	Seduction	US- gold US	-	jazz3 (104 weeks) jazz
1996	Boney's Funky Christmas	-	-	jazz4 (8 weeks) jazz
1997	Sweet thing	US112 gold (11 weeks)US	R&B49 (40 weeks) R&B	jazz2 (104 weeks) jazz
1999	Body Language	US91 gold (18 weeks)US	R&B32 (37 weeks) R&B	jazz1 (101 weeks) jazz
2000	Shake it up	US78 (15 weeks) US	R&B32 (18 weeks) R&B	jazz1 (88 weeks) jazz	with Rick Braun
2001	Ride	US82 (5 weeks) US	R&B27 (38 weeks) R&B	jazz2 (92 weeks) jazz
2004	Pure	US66 (5 weeks) US	R&B9 (12 weeks) R&B	jazz2 (55 weeks) jazz
2006	Shine	US44 (5 weeks) US	R&B6 (14 weeks) R&B	jazz2 (78 weeks) jazz
2007	Christmas Present	-	R&B70 (2 weeks) R&B	jazz8 (9 weeks) jazz
2009	Send One Your Love	US77 (4 weeks) US	R&B21 (33 weeks) R&B	jazz2 (78 weeks) jazz
2011	Contact	US53 (2 weeks) US	R&B14 (16 weeks) R&B	jazz1 (78 weeks) jazz
2013	The beat	US54 (4 weeks) US	-	jazz1 (77 weeks) jazz
2015	Futuresoul	US76 (1 week) US	-	jazz1 (69 weeks) jazz
2017	Honestly	US125 (1 week) US	-	jazz1 (61 weeks) jazz

More albums

• 1998: Sweet Thing / It's All Good

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		R&B	jazz
2002	Something inside	R&B35 (1 week) R&B	-	feat. Dave Hollister
2004	Better With Time Pure	R&B74 (10 weeks) R&B	-	feat. Bilal
2005	2:01 AM Pure	-	jazz12 (18 weeks) jazz
2006	The Total Experience Shin	-	jazz1 (28 weeks) jazz	feat. George Duke
2007	Hypnotic Shin	-	jazz1 (31 weeks) jazz
2008	Skating Christmas Present	-	jazz27 (1 week) jazz
	The First Noel Christmas Present	-	jazz29 (1 week) jazz	feat. Rick brown
	Let it go	-	jazz1 (30 weeks) jazz
	The Way She Walks	-	jazz17 (21 weeks) jazz
2009	Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart) Send One Your Love	-	jazz1 (28 weeks) jazz
	Send One Your Love Send One Your Love	-	jazz5 (20 weeks) jazz
2010	Touch Send One Your Love	-	jazz6 (30 weeks) jazz
	I'll Be Good To You Send One Your Love	-	jazz30 (1 week) jazz
2011	When I Had The Chance Contact	R&B98 (1 week) R&B	-	feat. LeToya Luckett
	Contact Contact	-	jazz1 (20 weeks) jazz
	Spin Contact	-	jazz1 (23 weeks) jazz
2012	Cry Contact	-	jazz2 (19 weeks) jazz
	Deep Time Contact	-	jazz10 (18 weeks) jazz
2013	Batucada (The Beat) The Beat	-	jazz1 (20 weeks) jazz	feat. Rick brown
	Powerhouse The Beat	-	jazz1 (22 weeks) jazz
2014	Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing The Beat	-	jazz2 (18 weeks) jazz
	Sunset Boulevard The Beat	-	jazz4 (23 weeks) jazz
2015	Drumline Futuresoul	-	jazz1 (19 weeks) jazz
	Vinyl futuresoul	-	jazz1 (20 weeks) jazz
2016	A Little Attitude Futuresoul	-	jazz1 (20 weeks) jazz
	Futuresoul futuresoul	-	jazz14 (11 weeks) jazz
2017	Tick ​​Tock Honestly	-	jazz1 (20 weeks) jazz
2018	On The Prowl Honestly	-	jazz1 (15 weeks) jazz
	Up All Night Honestly	-	jazz1 (20 weeks) jazz
2019	Kicks Honestly	-	jazz15 (15 weeks) jazz

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		jazz
2012	Magical Magical	jazz1 (23 weeks) jazz	Jonathan Fritzén feat. Boney James
2014	Bring Me Joy	jazz5 (20 weeks) jazz	Al Jarreau feat. George Duke Boney James
2018	Persuasion Persuasion	jazz23 (4 weeks) jazz	Brian Simpson feat. George Duke & Boney James
2019	Looking for Sade	jazz27 (5 weeks) jazz	Peabo Bryson feat. Boney James

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: US
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US

Web links

• Official website
• Boney James at Allmusic (English)