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A solo steel drum player performs with the accompaniment of pre-recorded backing tracks that are being played back by the laptop on the left of the photo.. A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm section or other accompaniment parts that ...
Jazz singers usually sing in keys that fall in their middle to low registers. [5] The microphone technique is a big part of vocal jazz singing, allowing vocalists to amplify their voices with certain phrases. [5] Most jazz singers use a rhythm section (piano, bass, drums, and guitar) and sometimes vocal percussion. [6]
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Backing tracks can be as simple as a single prerecorded instrument, such as a recording of a pipe organ, which is impossible to move onstage, to string section recordings done in the studio, to full rhythm section recordings with bass, guitar, keyboards and drums. Some backing tracks also include backup vocals.
Ella Fitzgerald recorded a wordless vocal version with Ellington on her albums Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957) and Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur (1967), and it has also been recorded by other vocalists such as Sarah Vaughan (1979), Cassandra Wilson (1991), Tina May (1995), [1] and Dianne Reeves with Daniel Barenboim ...
The twelve Connick compositions on Other Hours was originally made for the 2001 musical Thou Shalt Not, which was the recipient of a Tony nomination for Best Original Musical Score (music & lyrics by Harry Connick Jr). A special feature is the cover artwork. Created by his mother, Anita, who died when Connick was only 13 years old.
Niki Haris (born April 17, 1962) is an American singer and dancer of pop, R&B, jazz and dance music. She was one of Madonna 's backing vocalists from 1987 to 2001, and the guest lead vocalist on various Snap! singles in the early 1990s.
James Taylor Quartet at Club Citta, Japan, 1989. The James Taylor Quartet's first single, "Blow-Up" (a funked-up version of Herbie Hancock's main theme from the seminal 1960s film of the same name), was released in 1987 on the Re Elect the President label, [2] which would later become the Acid Jazz label.