One (Bob James album)

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Released on April 17, 1974, this album charted at number two on the Jazz Album Charts.

1. "Valley of the Shadows" (James) – 9:42
2. "In the Garden" (Johann Pachelbel) – 3:06
3. "Soulero" (James, Richard Evans) – 3:22
4. "Night on Bald Mountain" (Modest Mussorgsky) – 5:51
5. "Feel Like Making Love" (Gene McDaniels) – 6:40
6. "Nautilus" (James) – 5:08

• Bob James – keyboards, arrangements and conductor
• Richie Resnicoff – guitars
• Eric Weissberg – pedal steel guitar (2)
• Gary King – bass
• Steve Gadd – drums (1–4)
• Idris Muhammad – drums (5, 6)
• Ralph MacDonald – percussion
• David Friedman – vibraphone
• Grover Washington Jr. – soprano saxophone (1, 3)
• Hugh McCracken – harmonica (2)

Brass and woodwinds

• George Marge and Romeo Penque – alto flute, recorder
• Wayne Andre – trombone
• Paul Faulise, Jack Gale and Alan Raph – bass trombone
• Jon Faddis and Thad Jones – flugelhorn
• Jon Faddis, Thad Jones, Victor Paz, Alan Rubin, Lew Soloff and Marvin Stamm – trumpet

Strings

• Seymour Barab, Jesse Levy, Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Alan Shulman and Anthony Sophos – cello
• Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Emanuel Green, Harold Kohon, Charles Libove, Harry Lookofsky, Joseph Malin, David Nadien and Gene Orloff – violin

Production

• Creed Taylor – producer
• Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
• Stuart J. Romaine – mastering at CBS Recording Studios (New York, NY).
• Joe Jorgensen – mastering supervisor
• Bob Ciano – album design
• Gene Laurents – cover photography

• Ultramagnetic MCs sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Ced-Gee (Delta Force One)" on their album Critical Beatdown in 1988.
• Run–D.M.C. sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Beats To The Rhyme" on their album Tougher Than Leather in 1988.
• Slick Rick reinterpreted the pattern of the bassline to "Nautilus" on his song "Children's Story" on his album The Great Adventures of Slick Rick in 1988.
• Public Enemy sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Anti-Nigger Machine" on their album Fear of a Black Planet in 1990.
• Eric B. & Rakim sampled "Nautilus" on their hit song "Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em" on their album Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em in 1990.
• EPMD sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Brothers On My Jock" on their album Business as Usual in 1990.
• Main Source sampled "Feel Like Makin' Love" on their song "Scratch & Kut" on their album Breaking Atoms in 1991.
• Main Source sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Live at the Barbeque" on their album Breaking Atoms in 1991.
• Kruder & Dorfmeister sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Original Bedroom Rockers" on the G-Stoned EP in 1993.
• Ultramagnetic MCs sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Raise It Up" on their album The Four Horsemen in 1993.
• Onyx sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Throw Ya Gunz" on their album Bacdafucup in 1993.
• Naughty by Nature sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Cruddy Clique" on their album 19 Naughty III in 1993.
• A Tribe Called Quest sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Clap Your Hands" on their album Midnight Marauders in 1993.
• Jeru the Damaja sampled "Nautilus" on his song "My Mind Spray" on his album The Sun Rises in the East in 1994.
• Pete Rock & CL Smooth sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Sun Won't Come Out" on their album The Main Ingredient in 1994.
• Group Home sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Inna Citi Life" on their album Livin' Proof in 1995.
• Ghostface Killah sampled "Nautilus" on his song "Daytona 500" on his album Ironman in 1996.
• Nuyorican Soul covered "Nautilus" on their album Nuyorican Soul in 1997.
• Murs & 9th Wonder sampled "Nautilus" on their song "Murray's Revenge" on their album Murray's Revenge in 2006.
• Danny Brown sampled "Nautilus" on his song "Pac Blood" on his album XXX in 2011.
• Freddie Gibbs sampled "Nautilus" on his song "Extradite" (featuring rapper Black Thought) on his album Shadow of a Doubt in 2015.
• Maxo Kream sampled "Nautilus" on his song "Go" (featuring rapper D Flowers) on his album Punken in 2018.
• Soul II Soul sampled "Nautilus" on a remix version of the song "Jazzie's Groove" in the early 1990s.

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