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Smooth Emerald Jazz
an online CD by Lee FitzSimmons

Welcome to the living CD that is Smooth Emerald Jazz. Filled with live tenor saxophone and acoustic piano, Smooth Emerald Jazz was created to take the listener to a beautiful place of rhythmic and melodic contemplation.

1. Chameleon Indigo – Performed by a nimble jazz trio, this quick and lively composition contains a highly percussive first section that features a catchy bass ostinato and then presents a second section complete with intense bebop sounds. Like most of the jazz pieces on this living CD, this work presents the head, or main melody, followed by a solo over the head’s changes, and then recaps the head at the end of the tune.

2. Cool, Blue, and Smooth – Performed by a jazz quartet featuring a live tenor sax, this highly determined composition uses a slower groove in order to allow for a more soulful melodic expression. The marked contrast between the two main sections also adds brilliant intensity to the work.

3. Peace Gold – Featuring a Fender Rhodes and an acoustic guitar, this jazz work focuses on highly positive emotional elements. Although the basic arrangement of this work uses many of the same sonic components used by many contemporary jazz artists, it is unique, because it also employs a very practical melodic line that spans neatly over three intertwined sections. It also features some very unique percussive sounds and rhythmic elements not typically found in modern smooth jazz.

4. Blue Paper Lanterns – This slow and poignant jazz ballad begins with the theme performed by a very soft jazz trio. When the theme returns for the second time, it is then performed by a very soulful tenor saxophone.

5. Uptempo Utopia – This unique jazz number uses the head, solo, head format, but also employs some very cool electronica textures to deliver its highly addictive groove patterns. A live tenor saxophone performs the main theme and then performs a blistering solo complete with lightning fast runs and arpeggios before returning back to the main melodic recap and the end of the work.

6. Merry Go Round – Performed by a live jazz trio and congas, this uptempo jazz waltz features a very simple, yet highly effective melodic line that develops itself over two sections. The first section stresses minor tonality, while the second stresses major tonality.

7. Metropolitan Island – This highly interesting jazz and Jamaican hybrid uses many melodic and harmonic elements found in jazz music and delightfully combines them with a reggae-inspired bass and drum groove.

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Tenor saxophone performed by Lee FitzSimmons

Flute performed by Lee FitzSimmons

Piano and keyboards performed by Lee FitzSimmons

Bass performed by Lee FitzSimmons

Percussion performed by Lee FitzSimmons

Drums performed by Lee FitzSimmons

Produced by Lee FitzSimmons

Engineered by Lee FitzSimmons

Composed by Lee FitzSimmons

Arranged by Lee FitzSimmons

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Here are the links to the rest of my online CDs...

Orchestral Alchemy

Fashion Show Electronica

Sylvan Acoustic

Texas Groove Child

Acoustic Latin

Cool Island Flow