Big Fish Audio has introduced a new sample library, The Jazz City Collection.
Description: Inspired by the classic 1950s and 1960s jazz albums of artists like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and others, Jazz City features 14 construction kits of traditional Jazz loops.
Also included is a substantial amount of extras and alternate loops, bringing the [...]

The awesome Pamelia Kurstin performing at TED!
SHe discusses the theremin and performs Autumn Leaves, Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life and a composition by David Mash, Listen: the Words Are Gone. Piano: Makoto Ozone
Born in Los Angeles, Kurstin currently resides in Vienna, and performs with acclaimed eccentric rockers Barbez, among many others. Her latest solo CD, Thinking [...]

Fusion jazz pianist, keyboardist, synthesist and composer Joe Zawinul, best known for his work with the group Weather Report, has died at the age of 75. Zawinul died today in Vienna, from a rare form of skin cancer.
Zawinul played with Cannonball Adderly, Dinah Washington and Miles Davis. With Davis, Zawinul helped create the jazz fusion [...]

Loopmasters has introduced with a new collection of jazz samples. Containing a massive 3GB of original samples, all played by seasoned professionals, Jazz Sessions is designed add authentic swing, soul and jazz attitude to your productions.
While the idea of sequencing jazz seems a little ass-backwards, the collection sounds like it would be right at [...]

 

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Avant jazz guru Bill Laswell has created Method of Defiance, a new super group that marries drum and bass electronic beats with the improvisation of jazz musicians.
Inamorata is possibly one of his most ambitious projects in a prolific career that has included producing Grammy winning albums and singles for Herbie Hancock – who makes [...]

 

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PlayJazzNow.com, a website featuring downloadable play-along tracks for instrumentalists and vocalists, has announced the addition of play-along tracks for jazz drummers and percussionists. The site already offers tracks for keyboardists, so one can download backing tracks for pretty to practice any role in a jazz ensemble.
Since its inception last June, PlayJazzNow.Com has offered downloadable play-along [...]

Monkey Straddle, the debut CD of Nnnj (”inch”) on The Agriculture records, is an interesting downtempo blend of influences ranging from ambient to jazz to IDM to world music.
Nnnj’s music falls into the broad downtempo category - but the tracks on Monkey Straddle are some of the most interesting examples of the genre that we’ve [...]

Luz Mob’s eclectic style, freely blending hip-hop, latin, dub, jazz and soul, was brewed in part during his travels across the country for 3 years, from Brooklyn to the mountains of Colorado, to the S.F.City by The Bay.
In advance of releasing his Luz Interpretations album on January 23rd, 2007, Luz Mob is making available two [...]

 

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This album, the third in the Verve remix series, is an interesting collection of reworkings of classic jazz tracks. The series takes cuts from the Verve archives and pairs them with top remixers, including Brazilian Girls, Sugardaddy, Adam Freeland, Danger Mouse and Carl Craig.
Verve has one of the strongest collections of work by great jazz [...]

This CD arrived in an unimpressive package - a hand-labeled CDR in a blank CD case and a floppy disk with the cover art on it.
The music, though, was a welcome surprise. Van and Borner is a duo of electronic musicians out of Poland. The band, made up of Barbara Zielinska Van & Sabina Borner, [...]

Four years ago, Bebel Gilberto’s Tanto Tempo was a surprise hit, bringing bossa nova rhythms to electronica fans and a mainstream audience. The late DJ Suba produced most of the CD, and he brought an adventurous production style to the CD, helping to make it a must-have.
Gilberto is the daughter of bossa nova pioneer Joao [...]

Garritan is now shipping their Jazz & Big Band collection. Jazz & Big Band offers a complete collection of instruments to create realistic-sounding jazz and big band arrangements.
It features over 50 individual instruments including: a comprehensive saxophone collection (16 different saxes), 5 trumpets (with various mutes plus a scream trumpet), 5 trombones (with various mutes), [...]

The Ziriguiboom label is a leading source of modern Brazilian music. The Now Sound of Brazil brings together some great tracks from this label, providing a satisifying introduction to some artists you may not be familiar with, and Brazilian electronica.
The CD is a Six Degrees release that features music of the Ziriguiboom label. Ziriguiboom is [...]

Merry Mixmas is an album of remixes of Christmas lounge classics.
While the remixers featured on this CD draw on a wealth of classic material, including tracks by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Earth Kitt, Julie London and Vince Guaraldi, the results are uneven.

Big Fish has introduced Elements: Traditional Jazz, a sample collection featuring Jazz Drums, Bass, Piano & Guitar Loops.
Description:
Jazz, “a genre of music characterized by a strong rhythmic understructure, blue notes, and improvisation on melody and chord structure.” Experience traditional jazz in its purest form. If your productions call for authentic jazz, the complex yet simple [...]