Soundtrack (Fullerton College Jazz Band album)

Soundtrack
Studio album by the
Fullerton College Jazz Band
Released 1990
Recorded Fullerton College
Fullerton, California
Genre Jazz, Big band, vocal, instrumental
Length 47:18
Label Discovery Records
Trend AM-PM label
Producer Albert Marx
the
Fullerton College Jazz Band chronology
Love Ya
(1986/1988)		 Soundtrack
(1990)		 Mainstream
(1994)

cat. # Trend AM-PM Records AMCD-304

Music sample
"Maria"

Soundtrack is a CD released by the Fullerton College Jazz Bands and Vocal Jazz for the Discovery Records Trend AM-PM label.

Background

In 1981 the Music Department at Fullerton College built a 16 track in house recording facility which was to serve as a teaching tool for both student music groups and students wanting to take recording technology classes at a vocational level. Soundtrack is the sixth of several albums to come out of this studio to feature the award winning Fullerton College Jazz Band. The CD contains tracks from two of the Fullerton College jazz groups: Jazz Band I and Vocal Jazz. The #1 jazz band was the winner of the 1985 International Association for Jazz Education Disneyworld Competition and the opening band for the 1985 Playboy Jazz Festival and the LP/CD recordings to date are recipients of numerous Down Beat and NARAS Awards.[1]


Albert Marx, who was the owner of Discovery Records/Trend Records AM-PM label, became very impressed with the band four years earlier and the level of the music coming from the jazz groups at Fullerton College.[2] He decided to support the younger, up and coming jazz students/players from the greater Los Angeles/Southern California region by producing certain LPs and CDs.

Track listing

All tracks written by various artists listed. 

No.TitleLength
1."Oh, Lady Be Good (George Gershwin, arr. Allen Carter)"  3:05
2."Somewhere Out There (James Horner/Barry Mann, arr. Dan Friedman)"  4:57
3."Maria (Leonard Bernstein, arr. David Metzger)"  4:26
4."When You Wish Upon A Star (Harline/Washington, arr. Charles Argersinger)"  4:37
5."Emily (Mandel/Mercer, arr. Les Hooper)"  4:54
6."Swinging On A Star (Van Heusen/Burke, arr. Matt Catingub)"  3:22
7."It Might As Well Be Spring (Rodgers/Hammerstein)"  5:45
8."Close Enough For Love (Mandel/Williams, arr. Rick Helzer)"  6:44
9."Invitation (Kaper, arr. Tom Hynes)"  4:54
10."Till There Was You (Meredith Willson, arr. Roger Myers)"  4:34
Total length:47:18

Recording Sessions

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Reception

"...vocal director Brent Pierce handles the FC Vocal Jazz ensemble with skill and the featured faculty vocalist Sunny Wilkenson is a soulful singer whose phrasing is slightly reminiscent of Stevie Wonder. Soundtrack is a digital recording and the engineering is top flight...Some of the student soloists who impress include David Allen, Aiphonse Mosse and John Hancock. The faculty soloists also demonstrate a firm grasp of big band soloing. The ensemble passages benefit from crisp execution and the arrangements reveal hard work and rehearsal. A blind-folded listener would probably have difficulty distinguishing between Soundtrack and the work of any number of contemporary (professional big band CDs)..."

Cadence Magazine[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Cadence Magazinevery positive[3]
Jazz Journal International
United Kingdom		positive[4]
Tom Lord jazz discography(listing) 1993[5]
Schwann Catalogue(listing) 1989[6]

References

  1. ↑ Soundtrack liner notes and credits
  2. ↑ liner notes from 1983/84 Time Tripping LP
  3. 1 2 Cadence, Volume 17 Editor Bob Rusch, January 1, 1991. page 87
  4. ↑ Jazz Journal International, review, Vol 40, 1988. Page 33
  5. ↑ Tom Lord. The Jazz Discography: Volume 7, Lord Music Reference, 1993. Page F-397
  6. ↑ Schwann: Volume 41, Issue 2, ABC Consumer Magazines, Inc., 1989. Page C-597
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