Jazzcomputer.org

Realeased December, 20 2008, 45″48

Ambient Jazz is the most downloaded album on this site, and the best way to find jazzcomputer.org using a search engine. This music is made of traditonal jazz standards, from Duke Ellington’s to Herbie Hancock’s, played in an ambient way : lots of synths, pads and atmospheres, long intros developping spacy moods, slow transitions to rythms, themes and improvisations, music fading away into soothing soundscapes closing the tracks.

But all Jazzcomputer.org’s music is ambient jazz, and the more new albums come along, the more the intrication between the two styles gets deeper : take a listen at Life – Unfolding and Places , the latest album, especially.

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• Antigua is a gorgeous theme written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. The present intrepretation inlays the bossa nova into the Jungle and the exotic gongs of an alien place.

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• Isfahan, was written by Duke Ellington. This arrangement tries to summon an exotic ambience, with a strong emphasis on metallic instruments like chimes and tibetan bells. The guitar chorus is surely the jazziest moment of the album.

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• Maiden Voyage is a very well known Herbie Hancock’s composition from the mid sixties. Herbie Hancock itself being a major electronic musician, maybe wouldn’t he be too much upset with this riot of pads, sequences and synth arpeggios .

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• Mood 73 is the only personal composition of the album. The jazz rock comes after large sweeping pads have faded into the sound of an electric quartet ; a distorted guitar chorus can take place before the bass starts his improvisation.

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• Star Crossed Lovers is a widely known ballad written by Duke Ellington. This arrangement lets the jazz slowly fade in through ambient pads and noises enhancing a guitar intro.

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• I’ll be seeing you is a very popular song with countless arrangements. The guitar reaches this melody after a very long developpement of slow and dark percussion exchange, punctuated with oriental harp phrases.

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