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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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About Jeff Oster

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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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Splendour in the Drafts	Jan 1 2010 3:31 PM
Richard Harris	Dec 30 2009 1:56 AM Jeff Oster, Just checking in with you my friend and hoping you are doing well this holiday season! A THOUGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR ... "The future depends on what we do in the present." ~ Mahatma Gandhi MAY OUR HEARTS BE FILLED WITH THE JOYOUS SPIRIT OF THE HOLIDAYS ALL YEAR LONG! Please stay in touch from time to time and let me know how you are! Your friendship means the world to me! Your friend, Richard GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC! CDs @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com OR CDBaby.com / ITunes
Elizabeth Corkins	Dec 30 2009 1:24 AM
~DianneMarie~	Dec 24 2009 4:31 PM Grab a new Myspace 2.0 Layout Merry Christmas my friend. I hope this is the best one ever! Love, Dianne
Estia	Dec 22 2009 12:12 AM
fiona joy hawkins	Dec 16 2009 2:50 AM Sometimes When I Think of You is great - its new right? Its lovely to spend some time and cruise round listening to other peoples music. You're a talent JO. f
Luis Hernandes	Dec 15 2009 1:17 PM I wish you a great Christmas holidays!!!! Thanks Luis Hr
Judie Online Now!	Dec 10 2009 3:26 PM Comments and Graphics - Christmas Layouts - Photobucket Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Jeff. Your friend, Judie
Angel Girl	Dec 9 2009 7:56 AM Hi My Beloved Peaceful Earth Angel Warrior Of Music~Jeff~,With Each New Day, You Become More Uniquely & Beautifully You. As You Blossom, May You Take Pleasure In Each Step! You Are Love! Love & Accept Yourself As A Physical Body! Love & Accept Yourself As A Soul! Love & Accept Yourself As A Spirit! Love & Accept Yourself As A Totality! This Is How You Discover True Love, The Love That You Can Give Others & The One That Our Heavenly Creator Gives You: Unconditional Love! There Is No Remedy For Love But To Love More! May This Find You Wrapped In Angel Wings With The Love & Healing That Prayer Can Bring! Dance Among The Stars! Give Wings To Your Soul! Breathe In The Spirit! Celebrate Life! Live Like It’s Heaven On Earth! Always In My Prayers! Forever Embedded In My Heart! Big Hugs, Love & More Love, “AngelGirl”, Kristy!
Luettke	Nov 27 2009 12:58 PM Hi, thanks for the add! Enjoy our new elephant-Instruments. greetings from Germany
~DianneMarie~	Nov 26 2009 1:43 AM Comments and Graphics - Thanksgiving Layouts - Photobucket Happy Thanksgiving Jeff! Peace, happiness and love my friend, Dianne
Gospel One	Nov 25 2009 8:20 PM glitter-graphics.com MAY GOD'S RICHEST AND BEST BE YOURS LOVE ZZ AND ART
Elizabeth Corkins	Nov 23 2009 9:54 PM Nice Week Comments Myspace Comments -
Christy	Nov 20 2009 2:30 PM I gotta tell ya, Mr. Oster... this whole growing up and into yourself thing is catching up with me. I came here to get lost in your sound. It still helps. My mind still writes the lyric. Thank you for providing a melody. Does life ever become simpler, jo? cw
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~DianneMarie~	Oct 31 2009 1:11 AM Happy Halloween Jeff! Hope you have a great weekend. Peace, love and happiness, Dianne
Artur Bayramgalin	Oct 30 2009 3:38 PM Happy Halloween!!!
Elizabeth Corkins	Oct 26 2009 3:35 AM
~DianneMarie~	Oct 21 2009 12:48 AM Hi Jeff, Thanks for adding me back! I appreciate it. I hope all is well and yours. It's good to see your face again! Peace, love and happiness, Dianne Marie
fiona joy hawkins	Oct 20 2009 11:02 AM Hi Jeff, How are you? I'm listening to True - thinking of you............. XXX
Steven Cravis	Oct 8 2009 4:41 AM Hi Jeff Oster, just stopping by to say hi :-) ! -steven
Dor	Sep 22 2009 4:35 PM No one does it better than you Jeff. "As I live and Breathe" is just exquisite. Hope you are having a great day, Dor
heyjude_019☼	Jul 31 2009 12:53 PM Hi Jeff, Thanks for the friendship. Love the music! It's great! Greetings from Jax, Fl

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