New album update

Work on a new album has been put on hold for a little bit due to unforseen and difficult circumstances. Please be patient and help keep the music alive by continuing to share and support. It's greatly appreciated ! .. Buz

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Dark Jazz

Nice feature on the origins of dark jazz going back to the 50's and Miles Davis's soundtrack for the film 'Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud'.

Blurred Ghosts: An EIC Dark Jazz (Mini) Feature

Prepare to pull back the red curtain and enter the smoke hazed cabaret of Dark Jazz. It's a place where saxes spill their distorted notes with despair, where ambience is the driving force, where chanteuses grace the stage, and where the shadows of fifties nightlife still linger, waiting to seduce and fascinate. .......

Read the full article on Everything Is Chemical.

Collateral Damage

Filmmaker Alaneo Gloor created this film using the SOJS track Collateral Damage. You can check out some of his other films on his YouTube channel.

More film noir

A couple more short films using the SOJS music. The first by Glenn Brughmans, won a  short film competition in Belgium.

The White Paper by Carsten Goettel, is about a writer, who literally starts chasing his ideas.

Reviews

A couple of nice write ups on the SOJS music from the blogs Darkslayer and Soundrounding. They have lots of other good stuff too, so check em out.

Darkslayer. (Spanish)

Soundrounding

The Cost of Living

Saxophonist Michael Brecker.
Charlie Haden on bass.
Check out the saxophone solo starting at around 4:15

Unreleased Tracks

Just uploaded 3 new unreleased tracks to the website. There's also a bunch more songs that aren't on any of the SOJS albums. You can download them here. Unreleased Tracks

YouTube

Just started a SOJS YouTube channel. On the featured page there's some really cool videos that people have made using my music. There's also playlists for all the albums, with videos uploaded by others or myself.  The goal is to have all the songs/albums up in some form, either full video or album cover/picture type.

Thanks to everyone who has made videos and shared the music. If i missed any or if you have a new one, let me know and i'll add it to the page.

Here's the link jazzstreetmusic. enjoy, share

and don't forget to subscribe !

Bandcamp

SOJS music can also be found on Bandcamp. Albums or songs can be downloaded for free with no email address required. Click the Buy Now button and put in 0 for free download or if you would like to help support the music, you can choose any amount and pay by credit card or Pay Pal. Albums are available in mp3 320, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis and more.

Bandcamp

Animated Noir

Just found this animated noir video using the song Ghost, from the Quiet Light album. The animation is by Mateusz Dabrowski. Cool !

Robert Costea – Album Artwork

I have been fortunate to have Robert Costea, RoCoART, doing the artwork for my recent albums. Robert, who designed the album cover art for A Quiet Light as he did for the two previous Somewhere off Jazz Street albums, has a great feeling for music, and for matching images to the music.

Working with Robert has been much like working and improvising with jazz musicians, where no words are needed. Play the music and they respond with their creation. I send Robert the music for the album and my very brief thoughts on what the album is about and somehow, magically he responds with the perfect image.

Robert has also done the artwork for the SOJS albums Beyond This and Whispers of Empty Spaces, as well as another project of mine called Clamour Head, which is one of my favorites covers. 

Thank you Robert !

A Quiet Light – 2011

A Quiet Light, the latest Somewhere off Jazz Street release, is a collection of quiet, dark, jazz influenced moods from the late, late hours of the night. Slow tempos, the sound of brushes on the snare, a saxophone speaking in soft tones and whispers. The music for A Quiet Light is melancholic and at times even haunting, as on the tracks Dusk and Ghost. But in the dark and grey atmospheres of the album there’s also a faint ray of hope, most notable on the final track Dawn.

The sax, acoustic bass and drums sounds, the core of the music, are augmented with acoustic and electric guitar, percussion, piano and string sounds. Subtle electronic textures play a key role in the music and add much to the feeling of the album. An electronically processed flute sound gives an uneasy feeling to the first track while in Ghost, a spellbinding effect is created with sampled whale sounds played from the keyboard. In the seven minute long Fly, electronics and the Rhodes electric piano set the background for the sax to explore and improvise.

The album artwork is done by Robert Costea, who created a perfect visual for the themes of the music. An old abandoned building that has seen it’s better days, but through the panes of the glass windows, the light of another day.

A Quiet Light is free to download in mp3 and FLAC lossless formats.

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The album is also available on Bandcamp