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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 ...
Chameleon is a 1974 big band jazz album by Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson.It features cover versions of many songs that were popular in the years leading up to its production, including: "Jet" by Paul McCartney and Wings, "The Way We Were" – which was popularized by Barbra Streisand, and "Livin' for the City" by Stevie Wonder. [1]
Shake It Up is an album by smooth jazz musicians Boney James and Rick Braun, released in 2000. Track listing. No. Title Writer(s) Length; 1. "R.S.V.P."
"The Preacher" was released as a single along with "Doodlin' "; the pairing "might be the first example of a jazz hit single going on to boost sales of its source album – or, as here, albums". [6] It was Silver's first hit. [7] The track helped trigger interest in hard bop among other musicians. [8]
"Mr. P.C." is a twelve-bar jazz piece in minor blues form, composed by John Coltrane in 1959. The song is named in tribute to the bass player Paul Chambers, [1] who had accompanied Coltrane for years. It first appeared on the album Giant Steps, where it was played with a fast swing feel. [2]
The album's first four tracks were written by Scott-Heron, and the last seven tracks were co-written by Scott-Heron and keyboardist Brian Jackson, who backs Scott-Heron with Pretty Purdie & the Playboys. [5] The album was produced by Thiele, [5] who was known for working with jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane. [2]
Wilton Jameson "Jamey" Aebersold (born July 21, 1939) is an American publisher, educator, and jazz saxophonist. His Play-A-Long series of instructional books and CDs, using the chord-scale system, the first of which was released in 1967, are an internationally renowned resource for jazz education. [1]
"So What" is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis. It is one of the best-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E ♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian. [1]