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"Four Stars. Smoother than cognac and just as refined ... drips with an unabashed sensuality both subtly delivered and painfully personal ... a display of artistic maturity both insightful and thoroughly inviting." - All About Jazz "James refines his sound with impressive results ... drifts into mystical terrain with a smouldering glow that’s part hip-hop, part dusty soul and entirely natural. There’s a sense of calm that permeates, yet it harbours just enough edge to make waves in an upbeat setting." - BBC Music "This is the best, most sincere, most skillful piece of pop music making you are going to hear in 2013 ... a recording that is sexy, hip, engrossing and eclectic without being unfocused ... hits you square in the gut or the ass or the heart. It’s slippery and funky and ready to move you several ways." - PopMatters.com No Beginning No End from José James is a seamless musical experience that moves between different styles with remarkable fluidity, bound together by James’ transcendent voice. Conceived, recorded and produced independently without any recording contract, the album is his most personal statement yet. James shows an even deeper regard for pop song structures while retaining the “element of surprise” associated with jazz. Much of the music draws upon James’ love for the softer sounds of late 60s and 70s R&B, particularly the music of Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway and Marvin Gaye. "No Beginning No End sums up how I feel about music right now. I don’t want to be confined to any particular style. I decided I didn’t want to be considered a jazz singer anymore and that was really freeing. Once I realized that jazz singing is just something that I do and it’s just a label, it freed me as an artist to just write without any boundaries." - José James