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

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
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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

Recording Sessions

• Recorded January 1987 and 1988 Fullerton College, Fullerton, California

Personnel

Musicians

• Conductors: James Linahon and Brent Pierce
• Sax (guest soloists): Ernie Del Fante, Lanny Morgan
• Trumpet (guest soloist): James Linahon
• Vocal (guest soloist): Sunny Wilkenson
• Piano (guest soloists): Rick Helzer, Tom Ranier
• Guitar (guest soloists): Tom Hynes, Adrian Rosen
• Drums (guest soloist): Allen Carter
• Saxes and woodwinds: Tuan Vu, Yancey Valdez, Dino Soldo, Russell Shepherd, Ed Little, Mike Thomas, Steve Slate, Rob Mader
• Trumpets and flugelhorns: Paul Pugh, David Glenday, Glen Colby, Tammy Dauba, Dave Allen
• Trombones: Ryan Anglin, Bruce Lansford, Glen Goodrich, Steve Sowicki, Alphonse Mosse III, Kurt Godel
• Guitar: John Hancock
• Piano: Shawn Whitmer
• Bass: Dave Carpenter, Tom Fowler
• Drums: Eugean Ermel, Bryan Head, Rich Arbuckle
• Vocal Jazz: Patricia Figeroa, Dorraine Metzger, Janis Swanson, Dana Lynn Gribble, Kerstin Klopsch, Doug Eash, Mark Henson, Harlan Harris, Ed McCormick, Seth Weiss, Bruce Hart

Production

• Recording, mixing, re-mixing: James Linahon, Warren Hatfield, Randy Beers, Dan Friedman
• Mastering: Robert Vosgien, CMS Digital
• Album cover design: Michele Shih
• Album art director: Graham Booth, Fullerton College Art Department

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]

References

External links

• OCLC 37655114
• Official website