Career
He also produced and engineered albums for such acts as Black Flag, The Bangles, Rain Parade, Dos, and many others Many of these recordings were undertaken at Radio Tokyo Studio, the recording facility he founded in the early 1980s. He was considered a master of the hurdy-gurdy, a medieval instrument, and was also noted for playing the symphonium.
He returned to performing in 1989.
He performed with the San Francisco Mozart Festival Orchestra, among others James died of complications from liver cancer in San Francisco at the age of 56.
