text: In 2015, he released futuresoul which spent eleven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart and was the best selling Contemporary Jazz Record of 2015. In August 2015, James made his first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
  2017 saw the release of Honestly, his sixteenth album (which also featured production from Nutty P Beats) which became his eleventh No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart. It also reached No. 22 on the Billboard Current Albums Chart, his highest pop chart debut to date.
  June 2020 he released his seventeenth studio album Solid, describing it as "a reaction to how stressful the world feels these days. Music is a respite, it’s always ‘solid’ and never lets me down." The CD broke his previous Pop Chart record, debuting at #10 on the Billboard Top Albums Chart. His eighteenth album Detour was released on September 23, 2022.
  James is married to actress and director Lily Mariye and in 2012 he contributed an original score to her directorial feature film debut, Model Minority.
  Discography
  Trust (1992)
  Backbone (1994)
  Seduction (1995)
  Boney's Funky Christmas (1996)
  Sweet Thing (1997)
  Body Language (1999)
  Shake It Up  with Rick Braun (2000)
  Ride (2001)
  Pure (2004)
  Shine (2006)
  Christmas Present (2007)
  Send One Your Love (2009)
  Contact (2011)
  The Beat (2013)
  Futuresoul (2015)
  Honestly (2017)
  Solid (2020)
  Detour (2022)
  Number-ones
  The following hit number-one on the Billboard Smooth Jazz Airplay chart.