![]() ![]() Its simple, intuitive, user-friendly stem player interface can benefit all players, whether soloing or comping. Releasing each session as an “Album in an App” gives these recordings added value, thanks to the generosity of the players, which allows us to participate through an engaging practice tool. We present top-tier contemporary musicians bringing their decades of experience as bandleaders and top sidemen to the table as they play canonical jazz repertoire. According to the labels website “Jazz Master Tracks is dedicated to producing albums aimed at musicians wanting to study and learn jazz. Operating simultaneously as a record label and tech innovator in the global jazz ecosystem, the label presents bi-monthly new releases within what is perhaps the first-ever playalong app for every musician, and every instrument at an intermediate or advanced level. ![]() ![]() The app allows the user to highlight or mute instruments, loop lines, phrases and turnarounds, and expand their jazz vocabulary in a tailor-made way. Jazz Master Tracks, have combined 21st century technology with the needs of any modern musician to provide an innovative and engaging practice tool. Recently I received a press release from a new Hybrid label titled Jazz Master Tracks who claim to have taken this time-honored concept of the play-along record to the next level. Over the years countless musicians cut their teeth on these albums, this writer included. If you were a horn player you could just blow over the set number of choruses, if you were a pianist, then simply panning to one side would eliminate the recorded piano and if you were a bass player the oppersite applied. Every jazz musician over the age of 50 will likely remember Jamey Aebersold’s play along LP’s and for those that don’t, these were a series of LP’s propped full of standards and played by a rhythm section usually made up of piano, bass and drums. ![]()
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