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Title: Bob James - Obsession
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1986, Jazz, Smooth Jazz Fusion, Marshall, Missouri 6/26
Matrix #: 1-25495
Condition: EX (LM) | Members: Bob J (39' - Alive)
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: James spent years catching heat from jazz purists who treated his polished crossover sound like a sellout move, even as later hip-hop producers turned those records into sacred sample material.
2. Studio Lore: Obsession sits in his Warner Bros. era, full of mid-80s synth textures, clean studio drums, and the glossy keyboard sound that separated it from his grittier CTI years.
3. Scene Ecology: By this point James was moving between jazz radio, TV-theme fame, session work, and the sample universe that would later make his catalog a secret backbone of hip-hop.

6/27/26 LM