Urban Jazz Grooves

Product Description

Urban Jazz Grooves is a MIDI pack from Toontrack featuring approximately 600 individually played grooves that blend jazz, fusion, funk and rock into a tight, backbeat-driven feel. Performed by professional session drummer Luke Oswald, it's built for producers and songwriters who want a genuinely human feel behind their programmed drums.

Urban jazz is probably best described as a less busy, more pocket-oriented and backbeat-driven derivate of fusion. Basically, it's a seamless blend that merges the subtleties of jazz, the technicality of fusion, the groove of funk and the power of rock. For this collection of MIDI, drummer Luke Oswald, creative mind behind Toontrack's hugely popular Fusion Grooves and Fusion Fills MIDI packs, gathered inspiration not only from his own experience but also from the genre's forerunning artists such as Brian Culbertson, Jeff Lorber, Larry Coryell and Kirk Whalum as well as iconic drummers like Lil' John Roberts, Chris Miskel, Omar Hakim and Oscar Seaton.

Loop-friendly and consistent

Oswald's approach was to present a variety of grooves inspired by the distinct smooth jazz sound of the '90s through to today, while keeping the material very loop friendly. Take any groove as is, cut it up or mix it with others in the pack, and it still holds that consistent, tight, backbeat-driven feel. Aside from urban and smooth jazz, he envisions the MIDI being used in anything from less busy fusion to rock, soul or even hip-hop.

Who It's For

A collection of tight, backbeat-driven grooves, ideal for largely any songwriting application that calls for that special finesse and extraordinary detail only a great drummer can muster.

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