"The creation and playing of music should be a wonderous expression of the truth, a shining glimpse of the human heart in joy or pain.
There is an innocence to this; at least there should be. Jeff Oster writes and plays music like a child feels sunlight.
There's no ego, no artifice; just the truth.
There have been a million recordings of horn players, some of them utterly brilliant, but in all these recordings there has never been anyone who incorporates so many influences or blurs genres or traditions as gracefully as Jeff Oster does.
The elements are familiar, but the synthesis is unique.
The music is DONE! Mastering has been completed with Bob Ludwig at
Gateway Mastering, and we are deep into the artwork now.
TRUE features music composed and performed by Jeff Oster,
Jan Pulsford (she's composed and performed with Cyndie Lauper, the Thompson Twins and Chico Freeman),
Will Ackerman (Grammy Award winning guitarist/producer and founder of Windham Hill Records),
Patrick Gorman and
Samite.
On the boards mixing (in 5.1 surround and stereo) was Bryan Carrigan
(Alanis, No Doubt), and legendary mixing engineer Bruce Swedien
(Michael Jackson's THRILLER and many other classics)
These tracks were recorded in Vermont at Imaginary Road Studios with
Grammy Award winners Will Ackerman producing, and Corin Nelsen at the
board.
Jeff's new CD features world class performances from Keith Carlock on
drums (Steely Dan, Sting), T. Bone Wolk (Hall and Oates, Carly Simon,
SNL Band) and Michael Manring on bass, Eugene Friesen (PaulWinter
Consort) on cello, Philip Aaberg (Peter Gabriel, Elvin Bishop) on
piano and synthesizer, Jan Pulsford (Cyndie Lauper, Thompson Twins, Chico Freeman) on synthesizer and drum programming, Samite from Uganda on vocals and mbira, Melissa
R. Kaplan (Splashdown, Universal Hall Pass) on vocals, Patrick Gorman
on guitar, Noah Wilding on vocals, Derrik Jordan on percussion, and
Will Ackerman on guitar.
Pre-ordering will begin very soon, and along with that will come a
FREE DOWNLOAD of one of the songs from Jeff's new CD "TRUE" to add
to your iPod.
Look for 'TRUE" sometime in Summer 2007!
Can't wait to share the new music with all of you!
Jeff's debut CD - RELEASED - was voted the 2005 Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album by broadcasters worldwide who compile the charts at New Age Reporter.
Look for Jeff's new CD, "TRUE", in July 2007...
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WINNER - 2005 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards
Album of the Year
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
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WINNER - 2005 Independent Music Award
Best New Age Song - AT LAST (Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman)
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#1 on Echoes with John Diliberto for September, 2005
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#1 Electronic/Contemporary Instrumental CD of 2005 - Backroads Music
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#6 on the Echoes 2005 Listener Poll, and one of the 25 Essential Echoes CDs of 2005
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#1 for worldwide airplay on New Age Reporter for September AND October, 2005
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#1 on the Top Ten for 2005 for KCCK's Nightbreeze 88.3 KCCK FM - Cedar Rapids Iowa and the World
Available TODAY!!! Go ahead and add it to your collection.
As one of the few trumpet/flugelhorn artists working in ambient terrain, Jeff Oster draws from a rich background of classically trained, jazz tinged horn study, mixed with contemporary electronica and loop based electro-orchestral bed tracks. As you listen, imagine...
I have a long history of involvement in instrumental music. I produced George Winston and Michael Hedges among a long list of very well known players. There are a million players in Electronica. There are a million Michael Hedges clones and two million George Winston clones.
Jeff is the first player to bring horns into this realm of contemporary instrumental music. You could point to Mark Isham and Chris Botti (both musicians we were involved with at Windham Hill) as comparisons, but Jeff really has his own niche that he’s carved out of a brilliant synthesis of influences and sounds. This guy is the real deal. I’ve seen careers take off and recognize when music creates a buzz around itself almost without effort and that’s what happens when people hear Jeff Oster’s music.
...RELEASED, one of the most remarkable debut recordings I've ever heard.
