Track Description: Latin / Jazz, Up-tempo Bossa Nova. This song is another rule-breaker in that the Verse sections have 3 distictly different melodies. Some body part will be moving after listening to this song for at least 30 seconds. Soprano Sax and Electric Guitar share the melody statements.(3:41)
Dean Roubicek - Soprano Sax; Big Al - fretless Fender Jazz Bass, Fender Stratocaster, MIDI everything else.
This song is a prize winner in the Jazz category of the 2001 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
Track Description: A jazz ballad, semi-acoustic. About stating the intimately obvious fact of not taking for granted the grace of someone's presence.(4:34)
Terrell Moran - Vocals; Big Al - fretless Fender Jazz Bass, Yamaha APX-4A Acoustic Guitar, Fender Stratocaster, MIDI everything else.
Track Description: Groovin Funk, Acid/Jazz. Good music to drive fast on curvy roads or the soundtrack to your morning run. A strong Bass line drives the Tenor Sax led melody.(3:55)
Dean Roubicek - Tenor Sax; Big Al - Pulcinella Level 5 Bass, Fender Stratocaster, MIDI everything else.
Track Description: This song features the heavies of the heavy: Paul Jackson on base, Ernie Watts on tenor, Rodney Franklin on piano, and Tony Adamo, vocals.
Track Description: Very smooth rendition of Gentle Rain. Angela Bingham comes from San Francisco, raised in a musical family where four-part harmonies were a mandate. While attending De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif., she became smitten with jazz, and performed with Vocal Flight, the school's renowned jazz vocal group. Through VF, she discovered Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Shirley Horn and gained valuable performing and observational experience when the group toured Europe.
Track Description: For over a quarter of a century, guitarist Al Di Meola has been a trailblazer. Flesh on Flesh, finds him pushing the musical envelope in both directions: exploring new avenues of cross-cultural expression while reaching into his own storied past to create a new and distinctly personal statement.
Track Description: Art is a powerful emerging new sax artist. He is currently working on a new CD with some exciting new tunes, written and produced by Dawoud Said. Check our website for a performance schedule.
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