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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]
Some bands have an offstage sequencer-programmer who triggers basslines, beats, digitally sampled sounds or backing tracks. 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 ...
Jazz Bridge is an arts services organization that was unofficially founded in 2004 by jazz singers Suzanne Cloud and Wendy Simon to address the lack of support for individual jazz and blues musicians and vocalists in crisis in the tri-state, lower Delaware Valley, Greater Philadelphia Metro area. Over the years, these women had witnessed the ...
The twelve Connick compositions on Other Hours was originally made for the 2001 musical Thou Shalt Not, which was the recipient of a Tony nomination for Best Original Musical Score (music & lyrics by Harry Connick Jr).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.
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.
B. David Whitworth – backing vocals (track 8) Mark Ledford – backing vocals (track 8) Tawatha Agee – backing vocals (track 8) Brooklyn Crooks – chorus shouts vocals (track 8) Clare Fischer – string arrangement and conductor (tracks: 1, 9) Peter Hunstein – programming (track 8) Raymond Jones – producer (tracks: 1, 9) Delfeayo ...
Jazz musicians from New Jersey during their jazz music careers. Pages in category "Jazz musicians from New Jersey" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.