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Jeff Oster
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Member Since	1/5/2005
Band Website	www.jeffoster.com
Band Members	**** Jeff Oster - Trumpet,Flugelhorn,Synthesizer, Loops,Percussion ** "TRUE" - the stunning new release from award-winning chilled jazz trumpet/flugelhorn artist Jeff Oster. Featuring the artistry of: Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Sting) - drums T. Bone Wolk (Hall and Oates, Carly Simon)- bass and guitar Michael Manring - fretless bass Eugene Friesen (Paul Winter Consort) - cello Philip Aaberg (Peter Gabriel, Elvin Bishop) - piano,synthesizer Jan Pulsford (Cyndie Lauper,Chico Freeman) - synthesizer, drum programming Samite - vocals and mbira Melissa R. Kaplan (Splashdown, Universal Hall Pass) -vocals Patrick Gorman - guitar Noah Wilding - vocals Derrik Jordan - percussion Will Ackerman - guitar ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! <---CLICK HERE ******************************************************************* "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. This is a milestone recording." Will Ackerman Windham County, VT June 2007 ******************************************************************* "I have recorded many of the world's greatest trumpet and flugelhorn players. In fact, some of the most important that music has to offer. So of course I thought that I had heard all that the flugelhorn and trumpet had to say musically. That was before I had heard and mixed Jeff Oster's wonderful music. Talk about tone, intonation, phrasing and all things wonderful about the instrument, Jeff has it all... Listen to this fabulous music with open ears and open hearts, please..." Bruce Swedien Ocala, Florida April, 2007 **************************************************************** Jeff Oster (w/Lars Hidde and Patrick Gorman) Live in Big Sur 2/10/07 Misty - Jeff Oster (after hours) at Big Sur 2/10/07........................... Final Approach - Live at Big Sur 2/10/07 CHECK OUT JEFF'S MUSIC AT CD BABY!!!
Influences	Bill Chase, Miles Davis, Chet Baker,Will Ackerman, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, The Orb, Yes, Alice Cooper, John Coltrane, Bill Ledue, Chuck Domanico, Harry James, Roxy Music, The Cars, Prince, Madonna, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Jackson, Herb Alpert, Chuck Mangione, The Allman Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac, Joe Walsh, Steve Miller, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Frank Sinatra, Alan Oster, Tangerine Dream, Cocteau Twins, Frankie Goes to Hollywood,
Sounds Like	Miles Davis meets Enya
Record Label	Retso Records
Type of Label	Indie

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Jeff’s story has been a long, surprising, meandering one, with a second (or third, or fourth) act that once wouldn’t have seemed possible. Nearly 30 years ago, Jeff first decided to play music for a living; 20 years ago, he set aside his musical ambitions and moved on to a more lucrative day job; and about five years ago, he finally found that his day job made it possible for him to revive those initial dreams. Jeff is now releasing his second album, “True,” an artful blend of ambient grooves with his warm, jazz-inflected trumpet and flugelhorn playing. The album is the next step in a unique trip that has turned a one-time limo driver, standup comic, bar-band musician and financial planner into an unexpected force in the world of instrumental music.

Produced by Will Ackerman, the founder of Windham Hill Records, “True” features music composed and performed by Oster, Ackerman, Jan Pulsford, Patrick Gorman and Ugandan vocalist Samite. The album was mixed by Bryan Carrigan (Alanis Morrissette, No Doubt) and the legendary engineer Bruce Swedien, whose other work includes Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

“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,” says Ackerman. “The elements are familiar, but the synthesis is unique. This is a milestone recording."

For Jeff, though, the synthesis simply comes naturally. “The second record has more rhythm than the first, but none of it is really planned,” he says. “I just play what moves me, what I love, what sounds good to me. And I start by hunting for sound, more than anything else. I look for what’s out there that I can react to, build the songs from there, and figure, if I love it, maybe somebody else is going to love it.”

Raised in Florida, Jeff began playing music at the age of eight. He moved to Oregon for college, made contacts in the record industry, and came to Los Angeles to visit; a six-hour audition to become Ray Charles’ trumpet player didn’t result in the gig, but it was exciting enough that he moved to L.A. to try to break into the business.

When a record deal didn’t materialize immediately, he worked as a limo driver, often playing his song demos for the captive audience in his car. (One passenger, country singer Mel Tillis, was encouraging enough to help him get into ASCAP.) He wrote songs, played in cover bands in L.A., Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe, worked the wedding circuit, and even tried his hand at standup comedy for a while. In 1987, though, a client convinced him that he’d make a good stockbroker and financial planner; the client was right, and for the last 20 years Jeff has been extremely successful in the financial industry.

Jeff’s musical dreams resurfaced strongly in 2003, when he began using the computer software program Sonic Acid to create music using downloaded drum, bass and synthesizer tracks. Although he’d record his horn parts from across the room using the computer’s tiny built-in voice microphone, the resulting songs sounded good enough to become favorites on the mp3.com service, where he placed four songs on the Top Ten Downloads list. “I’d recorded these songs at three in the morning on a little 38-cent microphone,” he says, “but I was getting 40,000 downloads a month, so I knew I had something going on.”

The songs also attracted Will Ackerman, a musical idol of Jeff’s since the late 1970s. The two men recorded together in late 2003, cutting tracks that became the “At Last” EP and then the full-length album “Released.” The album, which Jeff has described as “Chet Baker meets Dead Can Dance,” won the 2005 Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album awards at the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards, which are voted by broadcasters and handed out by the New Age Reporter, the leading journal to cover New Age, World, Ambient and Electronic music. The Oster/Ackerman composition “At Last” also won the Best New Age Song award at the 2005 Independent Music Awards.

“True” features many of the same contributors as “Released,” with more emphasis on the rhythm tracks and on sounds from around the world, including Tibetan throat chants on “Tibet” and a spoken/sung interlude from Samite on “Serengeti.” Musicians include drummer Keith Carlock, bassists T-Bone Wolk and Michael Manring, cellist Eugene Friesen, keyboardists Philip Aaberg and Jan Pulsford, guitarists Patrick Gorman and Ackerman, percussionist Derrik Jordan, and vocalists Noah Wilding and Melissa R. Kaplan. “It might sound like hyperbole, but we may be witnessing the emergence of the next instrumental superstar,” wrote Bill Binkelman in an advance review in the New Age Reporter.

For Jeff Oster, though, superstardom was never the point. His goal, he came to realize after the years of driving limos and playing in bar bands and working as a financial advisor, is simply to play what he wants, to find music he loves and pass it on to anybody who wants to listen.

“Over the years, I never had any idea of what kind of music I would make on my own,” he says. “At first I was either trying to play other people’s music, or I was trying to write music that other people would record. And I never really thought about what my music would be like. I never said, ‘I’m gonna be an ambient chilled jazz flugelhorn player.’ But because I have enough financial resources now, I’m not trying to sound like whatever’s selling now. I‘m just going for stuff that sounds good and makes me feel good. And that’s an incredibly freeing way to work.”

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Dianne	Jul 9 2009 2:54 AM That's the most beautiful "Amazing Grace" I've ever heard! I'm in awe! :)
Judie	Jul 8 2009 1:54 PM Friendship Comments Myspace Comments TAKE THE TIME TO ENJOY WHATS AROUND YOU, YOU MAYBE SURPRISED! OF ALL THAT THERE WAS, IS NOW A FEW. THE HARDEST PART IS TO FIND THE ONES THAT ARE TRUE! JUDIE
Gospel One	Jul 7 2009 11:27 PM hi my friend thanks for accepting the friendship request...welcome to our site...we also hope you join us on the Diamond International Gathering Site...Here's the link. It's a Christian community where we fellowship, there you will have your own site to upload your music, pictures, join in on the forum discussions, join groups etc...We'll look forward to seeing you there http://thepinkdiamondclub.ning.com/
Dianne	Jul 3 2009 5:48 PM Myspace Comments, Fourth Of July Comments at WishAFriend.com A little early, but have a great 4th of July! Peace, Dianne
Dianne	Jun 30 2009 9:21 PM Thank you Jeff for adding me. I have posted one of your songs to my profile player. I look forward to listening to all of your music. Your music is very inspiring and amazing. Peace, Dianne
Woodroot Musicscout	Jun 30 2009 8:04 PM Hello Jeff, thanks for adding me to your friendlist ... very soothing music ... the right stuff for my New Age Channel on www.woodroot-radio.eu best wishes the musicscout
Mark Russell	Jun 24 2009 1:17 AM Beautiful and soothing music. Thanks for the add :^)
Crystina Maez	Jun 22 2009 11:25 AM Smile! Life is beautiful.
Christine Neubauer™	Jun 17 2009 1:34 PM J EFFFFFFFFFFFFF WHERE IS MY FACEBOOK FAVOURITE FRIEND WHERE ARE YOU , whats up..whats cooking in your MUSIC MAGIC ball do you have some new songs.. here is hot you can only imagine summer in europe forget it ;)* kiss baby C
Cindy	Jun 7 2009 2:26 PM Imagination is the living power & prime agent of all human perception -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Just like you said. Just Imagine.... Have a beautiful week in Music & in other parts of your life Mr Oster!
Christian	Jun 4 2009 10:24 PM Hi my friend, hope you are doing just fine & having a good time:) Wish you all the best Christian
Cindy	Jun 1 2009 12:48 AM The rest of the adventures of Moab.. just imagine being there... Today is your B-Day.. You are 624 months old today! Moma's little boy must be very proud.. :o)
Bradley Joseph	May 22 2009 9:11 PM Thank you for your friendship. All the best,
Christine Neubauer™	May 20 2009 5:20 AM wonderful morning i wish you, in my country is seven o clock in the morning and i dance..and sing..i drink coffe ..wow..
Christian	May 19 2009 10:17 PM Thank you for accept me. I'm gladd to be into your friends, Best wishes from Germany. Christian
Christy	May 14 2009 5:32 AM whassup?
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Kim Hoorweg	May 13 2009 8:04 AM Hi Jeff, Thank you for the friendship ! This is the videoclip of my song released by Universal this week. Would you be so kind and please give your (honoust) opinion on the youtube channel for me ? Would be great !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tLl4TBbFeg&feature=channel_page Kim
Cindy	May 12 2009 11:48 PM Hey Jeff.. Showing you some fun pics of Moab, Ut. where I stayed at over the weekend.. have you ever been in there? If not, you have got to go there! AN AWESOME PLACE TO EXPLORE.. On my way home thru the scenic route.. I listened to one of the many cds-True being one of them from myspace.. the music I heard made the whole experience being in there.. surreal. Loved it. Such good music for the soul. Thank you! Cindy
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Trumpet of the Lord - MIKEY	May 10 2009 4:45 AM Jeff Oster's VIOLET is one of the most beautiful sounding flugelhorn songs that I have ever heard. Dr. MIKEY Schmidt Athens, Tennessee
fiona joy hawkins	May 8 2009 10:56 AM Sending my love. f
Michael	May 4 2009 4:55 AM Sending hugs and wishing you a wonderful week.
Alvin Lloyd Masters	Apr 27 2009 12:49 AM Keep creating, Telling my top friends hello. best regards, Al
anton de miguel	Apr 26 2009 4:53 PM Thanks for the friendship.Is a pleasure.Some times we play music another times music play us.Very inspirate job.

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