Musician • Producer • Songwriter

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

James is a pianist, producer, songwriter, and composer.

An adopted child, James’ parents were keen to pick up on his musical gift early in life. He began studying piano at the age of six, and by his teens was performing with R&B, Rock, and Jazz bands. In 1995, James learned what to attribute some of his musical gift to when he learned the identity of his birth father — two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, David Crosby.

In 2023, James relocated from his lifelong home of Southern California to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he has immersed himself in the music scene, working with The National Dance Institute (NDI), and local musicians such as KT Tunstall and Jono Manson. James is currently working on several projects including an instrumental record entitled “The Mayan”, inspired by the musical and maritime sensibilities of his late father, David Crosby.

James recently produced and co-wrote several songs with venerable Santa Fe songwriter Jono Manson, for their first EP project together, “Playing Day For Night.” For the stage, James is the composer and lyricist for the upcoming musical, Cosette, a sequel to Les Miserables.

James produced and co-wrote David Crosby’s last three solo albums after the disbanding of Crosby, Stills and Nash, who he toured with extensively for a decade. The critically acclaimed final work of David Crosby’s, For Free, was released on BMG Music. It was on this project that two of James’s musical dreams were realized — co-writing a song with Michael McDonald — “River Rise” and another with Donald Fagan, “Rodriguez for a Night.”