Jazz Works 2

Timeless Tunes

Jazz Works Vol.2 delivers an impressive collection of top-class musical performances and infectious grooves. The second volume of the series focuses on more traditional jazz styles including Swing, Upswing, Boogaloo, Latin and Brasil Jazz. The authentic sounds can let you build your own stylish jazz productions or can be used within crossover pieces in genres such as Easy Listening, Lounge or other electronic styles and for film and TV cues. The Jazz Works Series includes acoustic and electric pianos, Jazz drums, upright bass, jazz guitar, baritone and tenor saxophone, flute, flugelhorn and trumpet - raw and authentic jazz, ready for your ideas.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Jazz, 60s

6.8 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 1.375 extended Loops

149.00 €

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Loop Library for the free Ueberschall Elastik Player
VST2/3, AU, AAX and Standalone for macOS and Windows

Classic Jazz Straight From The Jazz Club

Jazz Works Vol. 2 is perfect for those wanting access to the sounds heard in a traditional Jazz Club and played by a top-class ensemble of musicians. It's a perfect complement for the other volumes within the Jazz Works series. Ideal for songwriters, music producers, or media composers looking to add totally authentic traditional tunes into their musical projects, whatever the genre.

Add A Traditional Jazz Influence Within Your Own Projects

The library is organized into 10 massive construction kits, with over 1300 loops and phrases making nearly 7GB of sample content. Each of the construction kits offers collections of extended drum, bass and comping instruments (backings) plus multiple solo instruments. Kit tempos range between 130 and 250 BPM. Performances feature extended 16 or 32 bar phrases for a genuine live feel. Elastik's powerful sample manipulation toolset allows you to easily create shorter or longer loops, change tempo, pitch, key or scale, as your musical project requires. The material has been recorded with top-class microphones and AD/DA converters and was not edited any further. 100% dynamics - no compression.

Extended Performance Options In A Powerful Construction Kit Format

Within each construction kit, alongside the pre-mixed drum loops, some combination of individual loops of also provided. These include kick (inside and out mic), snare (top and bottom mic), hi-hat, cymbals toms, overheads and room, allowing for full control over the drum mix for your project. For the upright bass, a minimum of three different phrase/performance options are provided, with premixed, microphone and piezo recordings available in each case.

The comping performances provide the core chord sequence on acoustic piano, electric piano and electric guitar. Each kit includes a minimum of three variations of each instrument allowing the user flexibility in building a song-length arrangement. A PDF is included with full chord lead sheets for all the construction kits. All of the kits also provide a combination of multiple solo instruments. Up to 44 different solo parts are included within each kit. Throughout, the sound is pristine, authentic and presented without compression. This direct, dynamic, sound gives you full control over your mix decisions.

Credits

The Jazz Works Series features an incredibly talented musical team featuring newcomers and a number of Ueberschall regulars. The musical line-up includes Eike Wulfmeier on piano (who helped kick-start the project), Jürgen Attig on upright bass (who previously played on our Electric Bass and other titles), Matthias Meusel on drums (who previously supplied all the drums for our Drum Loop Series), Kai Reuter on electric guitar (who played on our Electric Guitar Moods and many other titles), Gary Winters on trumpet and flugelhorn (who recently played on our Trumpet Solos library), Nico Finke on baritone saxophone (who played on the Saxophone 2 library) and Nils Brederlow on tenor saxophone and flute (also an expert on coordinating remote live recording sessions). The whole band delivers virtuoso performances, full of feel, emotion and expression so we can give you world-class jazz at your fingertips in a sample library format.

Genre: Jazz

Elastik Soundbank for Mac & Win - AU/VST/AAX/StandAlone

6.8 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 1375 extended Jazz Loop Phrases

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 10

Drum Loops: 78

Acoustic Bassdrum: 156

Snare Top: 78

Snare Bottom: 78

HiHats: 78

Tom: 156

Rides: 78

Overheads: 78

Rooms: 78

Acoustic Bass: 126

Electric Guitar: 39

Acoustic Piano: 39

Electric Piano: 39

Saxophone: 122

Flugelhorn: 32

Trumpet: 42

Flute: 68

Thanks to its clear structure the Elastik player is the ideal tool for fast and modern music production using loops. Each loop contains information on tempo and key, so you can quickly find the right sample for your production. The „élastique pro“-algorithm by zplane offers time stretching and pitch shifting in high quality, while the ReTune algorithm lets you change the key and scale of any tonal loop. Endless possibilities to adjust sounds to your own projects.

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REVIEW

However, what really stands out is the actual quality of the musicianship; the performances are top‑notch across the board.

Jazz Works Vol. 2

Sound on Sound, Dezember 2021

https://www.soundonsound.com/

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars

Link to full review: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ueberschall-jazz-works-vols-1-2-3

If your next musical project needs to create the authentic sound of an old‑school, late‑night jazz club, and you are looking for some flexible performance loops to inspire the mood, then Ueberschall’s Jazz Works series — spanning three individual volumes — might make a great place to start.

Each volume contains 10 construction kits but there is a sonic and stylistic consistency (the same musicians were involved in all three titles) across each title so mixing and matching samples across kits or between the different volumes is perfectly possible.

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In terms of instrumentation, they cover all the options you might expect of a small jazz group with a core drum, upright bass, piano and guitar rhythm section supporting a range of soloists including sax, trumpet, flute and occasional guitar. The rhythmic performances are extended — 16 or 32 bars — and there are multiple performances, so it is relatively easy to build a full‑length arrangement that feels genuinely ‘human’ as opposed to loop‑based. In addition, you get a multitude of solo instrument performances within each kit (I counted over 40 different options within one of the construction kits in v2) so if you want to build an extended track, you ought to be able to do that without repeating yourself.

As with all Ueberschall’s titles, the recordings appear to have been very well made and edited. (...) However, what really stands out is the actual quality of the musicianship; the performances are top‑notch across the board. While there is a consistency of sound across the three volumes of the series, each does have its own musical flavour. For example, Vol 1 spans both traditional and more modern jazz moods and some of the material could easily cross over into RnB, Soul or House compositions. In contrast, Vol 2 is perhaps more orientated towards traditional jazz styles such as Swing, Upswing and Latin. Finally, Vol 3 is perhaps a little smoother in nature, with more of a late‑night, laid‑back, feel.

(...) Equally, for songwriter/ singer/ producer types wanting to experiment with some authentic jazz styles, there would be plenty here to explore and, usefully, PDFs included with each volume fully document the chord progressions used throughout. The Jazz Works series delivers some top‑quality classic club‑style jazz in a very convenient construction kit format.

by John Walden

To work innovatively with samples, especially in the field of media music, but by no means only, there is perhaps hardly anything better at the moment.