"JAZZ IT"

Big Band / Swing / Funk

Jazz / Blues

VIP Jazz

Comp: Jacques Kuba Séguin
Prod: Robert Marcel Lepage

Dring Dring Dring: pastiche Gene Krupa

Von Smith - Titanium - Vintage 1940s Jazz Crooner - Sia / David Guetta Cover

On My Way To You

Charlie Russell
charliehrussell@aol.com
On My Way To You
2015

http://www.jango.com/music/Charlie+Russell

Key=Bbm, Tempo 190, Length (m:s)=3:37

Instrumental Adult Contemporary Big Band Swing Smooth Jazz Latin Jazz Classical Blues Smooth R&B Neo-Soul.

Instruments are : Acoustic Piano, Acoustic Bass, Horn Section, Trumpet, Trombone, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Sax and Drums with solos on Acoustic Piano and Horn Section.

Songwriter / Producer Charlie Russell, with my infectious melodies and inventive  arrangements makes my radio friendly and  artistically intriguing smooth jazz feel will go  alone ways towards establishing this sound.  

There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with  hip rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping  funk bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot  and cool.

My keyboard work will feel so good, I will shock  you with my electrically charged guitar solos.

Charlie Russell is a unsigned self-taught  musician / songwriter / arranger / producer; his  recordings are intentionally melodic, giving you  this highly enjoyable first look.

On My Way To You

The Ground Floor

Charlie Russell
charliehrussell@aol.com
The Ground Floor
2015

http://www.jango.com/music/Charlie+Russell

Key=Am, Tempo 100, Length (m:s)=4:19

Instrumental Adult Contemporary Smooth Jazz Big Band Funk Latin Jazz Classical Blues Smooth R&B Neo-Soul.

Instruments are : Electric Bass, Electric Piano, Electric Rhythm Guitar, Electric Rhythm Muted Guitar, Trumpet, Trombone and Sax Horn Section and Drums with Solos on Electric Piano, Electric Guitar.

Songwriter / Producer Charlie Russell, with my infectious melodies and inventive  arrangements makes my radio friendly and  artistically intriguing smooth jazz feel will go  alone ways towards establishing this sound.  

There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with  hip rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping  funk bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot  and cool.

My keyboard work will feel so good, I will shock  you with my electrically charged guitar solos.

Charlie Russell is a unsigned self-taught  musician / songwriter / arranger / producer; his  recordings are intentionally melodic, giving you  this highly enjoyable first look.

The Ground Floor

2015 Gerald Wilson Award winner Matt Wong conducts "Against the Current" at the 58th Monterey Jazz Festival, September 20, 2015 with the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. Photo ©Monterey Jazz Festival / Cole Thompson.

Matt is the first double-winner of the Gerald Wilson Award.

Each year since 2005 at the Next Generation Jazz Festival, the Big Band Composition Competition is open to student composers currently enrolled in high school.

Compositions are judged by college-level music faculty, and the winning composer receives the Gerald Wilson Award, named in honor of the late legendary composer, arranger and trumpeter who was a friend of Monterey Jazz Festival for many years.

The winning composition is performed on the Jimmy Lyons Stage in the Arena at the annual Monterey Jazz Festival by the Festival's all-star student band, the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and the student composer is given the Gerald Wilson Award.

Matt Wong, 17, is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, and arranger. At an early age, he developed an appreciation for jazz and blues, and began playing piano at age six. His musical influences include Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, Robert Glasper, Billy Preston, and Bill Holman.

He performs as a solo act and with his own group, the Matt Wong Trio, and is a member of many ensembles based in San Francisco. He has performed in a variety of Bay Area venues including the SFJAZZ Center, Yoshi’s Oakland, Davies Symphony Hall, the Great American Music Hall, Stanford University’s Bing Center in Palo Alto, and the Monterey Jazz Festival. He has also performed at the Vienne Jazz Festival in France, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Umbria Jazz Festival Italy, the Blue Note in New York City, Jazz Alley in Seattle, and the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania.

Matt also composes and arranges for big band and orchestra, as well as for smaller ensembles. His big band compositions have been performed by groups including the Realistic Orchestra, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, SFJAZZ High School All- Stars, Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, Berklee Rainbow Band, and Jazzschool Studio Band.

Matt will be attending a music conservatory in New York City beginning fall 2015. Born and raised in San Francisco, Matt feels fortunate to have grown up in an environment that supports jazz and fosters musical collaboration and experimentation.

Matt's most recent accomplishments include 2015 DownBeat Student Music Awards (Jazz Instrumental Soloist, Original Composition – Small Ensemble and Large Ensemble, Jazz Arrangement, and as a member of three winning ensembles), 2015 Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington Student Composition/Arranging Contest Winner, 2015 Berklee Herb Pomeroy Jazz Composition and Arranging Contest, 2015 YoungArts Finalist, 2014 and 2015 Gerald Wilson Awards (Monterey Jazz Festival); 2014 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Awards, 2014 GRAMMY Jazz Combo (piano/keyboards).


Against The Current - Matt Wong

Your Impression Of Me

Charlie Russell
charliehrussell@aol.com
Your Impression Of Me 
2016

http://www.jango.com/music/Charlie+Russell

Key=F, Tempo 75, Length (m:s)=4:03

Instrumental Adult Contemporary Smooth Jazz Big Band Funk Latin Jazz Classical Blues Smooth R&B Neo-Soul Funk Band.

Instruments are : Acoustic Bass, Acoustic Grand Piano, Electric Jazz Rhythm Guitar, Brass Section, Drums with Solos on Acoustic Grand Piano and Trombone.

Independent Composer / Producer / Musician Charlie Russell, with his infectious melodies and inventive arrangements makes my radio friendly and artistically intriguing smooth jazz feel will go alone ways towards establishing this sound.  

There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with  hip rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping  funk bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot  and cool.

My keyboard work will feel so good, I will shock  you with my electrically charged guitar solos.

Charlie Russell is a unsigned self-taught  musician / songwriter / arranger / producer; his  recordings are intentionally melodic, giving you  this highly enjoyable first look.

Your Impression Of Me

Imagination

Charlie Russell
charliehrussell@aol.com
Imagination
2016

http://www.jango.com/music/Charlie+Russell

Key=C, Tempo 190, Length (m:s)=2:46

Instrumental Adult Contemporary Smooth Jazz Big Band Funk Latin Jazz Classical Blues Smooth R&B Neo-Soul Funk Band.

Instruments are : Acoustic Bass, Acoustic Grand Piano, Tenor Sax and Drums with Solos on Acoustic Grand Piano and Tenor Sax.

Independent Composer / Producer / Musician Charlie Russell, with his infectious melodies and inventive  arrangements makes my radio friendly and  artistically intriguing smooth jazz feel will go  alone ways towards establishing this sound.  

There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with  hip rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping  funk bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot  and cool.

My keyboard work will feel so good, I will shock  you with my electrically charged guitar solos.

Charlie Russell is a unsigned self-taught  musician / songwriter / arranger / producer; his  recordings are intentionally melodic, giving you  this highly enjoyable first look.

Imagination

I'll Take It Slow

Charlie Russell
charliehrussell@aol.com
I'll Take It Slow
2016

http://www.jango.com/music/Charlie+Russell

Key=G, Tempo 60, Length (m:s)=3:28

Instrumental Adult Contemporary Smooth Jazz Latin Jazz Classical Blues Smooth R&B Neo-Soul.

Instruments are : Electric Bass, Acoustic Piano, Electric Rhythm Guitar, Tenor Sax and  Drums with Solos on Acoustic Piano, and Tenor Sax.

Songwriter / Producer Charlie Russell, with my infectious melodies and inventive  arrangements makes my radio friendly and  artistically intriguing smooth jazz feel will go  alone ways towards establishing this sound.  

There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with  hip rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping  funk bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot  and cool.

My keyboard work will feel so good, I will shock  you with my electrically charged guitar solos.

Charlie Russell is a unsigned self-taught  musician / songwriter / arranger / producer; his  recordings are intentionally melodic, giving you  this highly enjoyable first look.

I'll Take It Slow

Morning Glory 

Charlie Russell
charliehrussell@aol.com
Morning Glory
2016

http://www.jango.com/music/Charlie+Russell

Key=Ebm, Tempo 115, Length (m:s)=3:45

Instrumental Adult Contemporary Smooth Jazz  Latin Jazz Classical Blues Smooth R&B Neo-Soul.

Instruments are : Acoustic Bass, Acoustic Grand Piano and Drums with solos on Acoustic Piano, Acoustic Bass.

Songwriter / Producer Charlie Russell, with my  infectious melodies and inventive  arrangements  makes my radio friendly and  artistically intriguing  smooth jazz feel will go  alone ways towards  establishing this sound.  

There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with  hip  rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping  funk  bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot  and cool.

My keyboard work will feel so good, I will shock  you  with my electrically charged guitar solos.

Charlie Russell is a unsigned self-taught  musician  / songwriter / arranger / producer; his  recordings  are intentionally melodic, giving you  this highly  enjoyable first look.

Morning Glory

Can I Call You

Charlie H Russell
charliehrussell@aol.com
Can I Call You
2016

Key=Abm, Tempo 175, Length (m:s)=3:55

Instrumental Adult Contemporary Smooth Jazz Big Band Funk Latin Jazz Classical Blues Smooth R&B Neo-Soul Dixieland.

Instruments are : Acoustic Bass, Acoustic Grand Piano, Trumpet, Tenor Sax, and Drums with Solos on Acoustic Grand Piano, Trumpet and Tenor Sax.

Songwriter / Producer Charlie Russell, with my infectious melodies and inventive  arrangements makes my radio friendly and  artistically intriguing smooth jazz feel will go  alone ways towards establishing this sound.  

There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with  hip rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping  funk bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot  and cool.

My keyboard work will feel so good, I will shock  you with my electrically charged guitar solos.

Charlie Russell is a unsigned self-taught  musician / songwriter / arranger / producer; his  recordings are intentionally melodic, giving you  this highly enjoyable first look.

Can I Call You

Give Me Room To Dance

Charlie Russell
charliehrussell@aol.com
Strange Rootz
2016

http://www.jango.com/music/Charlie+Russell

Key=G, Tempo 130, Length (m:s)=3:11

Instrumental Adult Contemporary Smooth Jazz Big Band Funk Latin Jazz Classical Blues Smooth R&B Neo-Soul Dixieland.

Instruments are : Acoustic Piano, Electric Bass Electric Guitar, Horn Section, and Latin Percussions with solos on Acoustic Piano, Electric Bass and the Horn Section.

Songwriter / Producer Charlie Russell, with my infectious melodies and inventive arrangements makes my radio friendly and artistically intriguing smooth jazz feel will go  alone ways towards establishing this sound.  

There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with hip rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping funk bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot and cool.

My keyboard work will feel so good, I will shock you with my electrically charged guitar solos.

Charlie Russell is a unsigned self-taught musician / songwriter / arranger / producer; his recordings are intentionally melodic, giving you this highly enjoyable first look.

Give Me Room To Dance

Angel Dust Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson

Carnaval

Charlie Russell
charliehrussell@aol.com
Brazilian Heart
2016

http://www.jango.com/music/Charlie+Russell

Key=G, Tempo 140, Length (m:s)=2:56

Instrumental Adult Contemporary Smooth Jazz Big Band Funk Latin Jazz Classical Blues Smooth R&B Neo-Soul Dixieland.

Instruments are : Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, Acoustic Piano, Trumpet, Tenor Sax, Trombone, Drums, and Latin Percussions with Solos on Trumpet, Acoustic Piano, Electric Guitar and Latin Percussions.

Songwriter / Producer Charlie Russell, with my infectious melodies and inventive arrangements makes my radio friendly and artistically intriguing smooth jazz feel will go  alone ways towards establishing this sound.  

There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with hip rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping funk bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot and cool.

My keyboard work will feel so good, I will shock you with my electrically charged guitar solos.

Charlie Russell is a unsigned self-taught musician / songwriter / arranger / producer; his recordings are intentionally melodic, giving you this highly enjoyable first look.

Carnaval

Louis Armstrong - Mack The Knife - 1959

Minor Swing (Django Reinhardt)

Miles Davis -  Smoke gets in your eyes

Charlie H Russell

Go to my site  http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/CharlieHRussell 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJqobewR8HhTnYufdviTTA/videos

Independent Composer / Producer / Musician Charlie H Russell, a songwriter with a catalog of 300 plus songs, that cover Jingle Work, Cues, Swing, Big Band, Latin, Smooth Jazz, R&B, Blues, Hip Hop, Neo-Soul, Caribbean, Rock, Country and Classical,

I play Bass, Guitar and Keyboards and I compose and record about two songs a week, that I could customize for any opportunity or client.

"His infectious melodies and  inventive  arrangements makes his radio friendly  and  artistically intriguing smooth jazz feel so good and this will go alone ways towards establishing his sound." 

"There are moments of cool soulful grooves, with hip rides in jazz improvisation, and the ripping funk bass, Sax and Horn lines are both the hot and cool."

"His keyboard work will shock you, and his electrically charged guitar solos, Wow!"

Charlie H Russell, unsigned self-taught composer / musician  / arranger and producer, his recordings are intentionally melodic, giving you  this highly  enjoyable first look.