Jazz Works 1

Authentic Live Tunes

Jazz Works brings the authentic sound and live feel of a first-class jazz band on top of their game. The musical styles capture both traditional and modern jazz moods, but the infectious drumbeats, melodic bass grooves, cool chord progressions and classy solos could easily cross over into RnB, Hip-Hop, Soul, Chillout, and Lounge or House and other electronic genres. Jazz Works has plenty to inspire whenever you need to drop a jazz element within your own productions. The Jazz Works Series includes acoustic and electric pianos, 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

7.2 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 1.230 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

Extended Performance Options In A Powerful Construction Kit Format

With 10 massive construction kits, and over 7GB of sample content, the Elastik-based library contains over 1200 loops and phrases. Each of the construction kits offers collections of extended drum, bass and comping instruments (backings) plus multiple solo instruments. Performances feature either 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 and 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.

The Authentic Sound Of A Live Jazz Band

Within each construction kit, alongside the pre-mixed drum loops, some combination of individual loops are also provided. These include kick (inside and out), snare (top and bottom), hi-hat, cymbals, toms, overheads and room, making it easy to craft the perfect drum mix for your project. For the upright bass, up to four 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 3 or 4 variations of each instrument with a combined length of up to 2 minutes allowing the user flexibility in building a song-length arrangement. A PDF is included which details all of the chord sequences used. All of the kits also provide a combination of multiple solo instruments. Multiple performance options are included for each instrument for maximum flexibility.

Add A Jazz Influence To Any Genre Or Project

Jazz Works is ideal for anyone needing to create the authentic sound of an A-list live ensemble across a range of jazz flavours. However, the powerful Elastik toolset and the sophisticated sound in a flexible format makes Jazz Works a perfect choice for songwriters, music producers, or media composers needed to drop a jazz influence into their musical projects, whatever the genre.

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), Matthias Meusel on drums (who previously supplied all the drums for our Drum Loop Series), Jürgen Attig on upright bass (who previously played on our Electric Bass and other titles), 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

7.2 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 1230 extended Jazz Loop Phrases

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 10

Drum Loops: 70

Bassdrum: 140

Snare Top: 70

Snare Bottom: 70

HiHats: 70

Tom: 140

Rides: 70

Overheads: 70

Rooms: 70

Acoustic Bass: 135

Electric Guitar: 40

Acoustic Piano: 39

Electric Piano: 39

Saxophone: 78

Flugelhorn: 34

Trumpet: 49

Flute: 36

While Elastik is a hugely creative tool, it also provides an extremely efficient workflow. The streamlined browser means that no matter how large your Elastik loop library becomes, you can always find just the right loop in an efficient fashion. Elastik also includes advanced features such as tagging and filtering, making it easy to narrow down any search. The browser allows you to easily audition loops in BPM, key and scale sync with your project. And if you want to add new loop libraries from the Ueberschall range, the authorization process is fast and secure.

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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. 1

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 hardly anything better at the moment.