Jeff Oster
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| Born | May 31, 1957 Danville, Illinois, US |
| Origin | Alameda California, US |
| Genres | New Age Acoustic Electronica Jazz Classical |
| Occupations | Musician Songwriter Financial Planner |
| Instruments | Flugelhorn, trumpet |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | Retso Records, Artist Garage |
| Website | JeffOster.com |
Jeff Oster is an American brass instrument player who has recorded flugelhorn or trumpet with artists such as William Ackerman, founder of Windham Hill Records. He got his start in the Coral Gables (Florida) Senior High School Band of Distinction playing under William "Uncle Willie" Ledue.
In 2004, Oster and Ackerman collaborated on, and Ackerman produced, Oster's four-track EP, At Last, and followed this with his CD Released in 2005. Released won the 2005 Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album awards at the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards presented by NewAgeReporter.com, a music airplay tracking agency. At Last, co-written by Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman, and performed by Jeff Oster, Will Ackerman, Philip Aaberg and Happy Rhodes, also won the Best New Age Song award at the 2005 Independent Music Awards.[1] Listeners of the national radio program Echoes voted Released as its 6th-place winner for The 2005 Listeners Poll,[2] and the Echoes staff chose it as one of the 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2007, at #18.[3] Also appearing on Released are Jeff Pearce (American artist), Charlie Bisharat, Philip Aaberg, Gregory Douglass, Bryan Carrigan, Taylor Barefoot, Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, Jeremy Mendicino, and Happy Rhodes.
Oster has played flugelhorn or trumpet on albums by Karen Marie Garrett, Rory Sullivan, Matt Millecchia, Kori Linae Carothers, Lawrence Blatt, Will Ackerman, Fiona Joy Hawkins, Rocky Fretz, Stanton Lanier, Frank Smith, Garneau, Ann Sweeten, Tim Gaetano, Bob Belden, Shambhu Vineberg, Heidi Breyer, River Donaghey and Jamie Bonk.
In 2007, Ackerman produced True, which features music composed by Oster and Ackerman, Ugandan vocalist Samite, Jan Pulsford and Patrick Gorman, and guest performances from Michael Manring, Philip Aaberg, Eugene Friesen, Keith Carlock, Jan Pulsford, Patrick Gorman, Samite, Derrik Jordan, Bryan Carrigan and singers Melissa Kaplan from Splashdown, and Noah Wilding.
In December 2007, one of the songs from True, the composition "Saturn Calling", written and arranged by Oster, and mixed by engineers Bruce Swedien and Corin Nelsen, won the Best New Age Song award at the 2008 Independent Music Awards.[4] Listeners of the national radio program Echoes voted True as its 10th-place winner for The 2007 Listeners Poll,[5] and the Echoes staff chose it as one of the 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2007.[6] True won the 2007 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards for Album Of The Year and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album in March 2008. In 2009, Echoes listeners voted True No. 88 of the 200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes poll
On April 23, 2008, NASA and JPL added a profile of Jeff Oster[7] and his song "Saturn Calling" to the NASA and Cassini-Huygens websites. "Saturn Calling" includes a sound excerpt from the Cassini spacecraft's recording of the auroras of Saturn.
Oster has completed work on a new album in Los Angeles, California. Produced by Bryan Carrigan and Jeff Oster, the album is called Surrender, and was released on August 16, 2011 on Retso Records.[8] Also appearing on Surrender is vocalist Diane Arkenstone. In September, 2011, Echoes, the nationally syndicated radio program hosted by John Diliberto chose Surrender as its September CD of the Month.[9] In September and October 2011, Surrender reached #1 on the Zone Music Reporter New Age/Ambient radio charts [10][11] On December 6, 2011, Surrender was chosen by the staff at Echoes as one of the Top 25 Essential CDs of 2011, ranking it at #12 [12] The listeners of Echoes voted Surrender as its 7th most popular CD on the Best of Echoes 2011 Listeners Poll on December 12, 2011 [13]
[edit] Discography
- At Last (2004), Retso Records
- Released (2005), Retso Records
- True (2007), Retso Records
- Surrender (2011), Retso Records
[edit] References
- ^ Independent Music Awards - 5th Annual Winners
- ^ [1]
- ^ 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2005
- ^ Independent Music Awards - 7th Annual Winners
- ^ [2]
- ^ 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2007
- ^ profile of Jeff Oster
- ^ Jeff Oster Official Website
- ^ Echoes Blog
- ^ Zone Music Reporter - September 2011 Top 100 Chart
- ^ Zone Music Reporter - October 2011 Top 100 Chart
- ^ 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2011
- ^ The Best of Echoes 2011 Listeners Poll
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Profile at NASA
- Jeff Oster at Allmusic
- Review of True at NewAgeReporter.com
- Raplee, Patrice; PositivelyEntertainment.com; Volume 31--Number 7• July 31, 2007
- Profile at Retso Records
- IMA 2006 Awards
- IMA 2008 Awards
- Echoes 2007 Listener poll
- Echoes Essential CD's for 2007
- NAR 2005 Lifestyle Music Award Winners
- NAR 2007 Lifestyle Music Award Winners
- MySpace page
- ReverbNation page
Listen to "Saturn Calling" here
