Results for "Contraband"

Contraband

Since the beginning of jazz, musicians have reworked songs familiar to non jazz listeners and made them their own. Music from pop tunes, movie soundtracks and Broadway shows have been arranged and performed in a jazz format. In honor of this tradition, this CD contains jazz arrangements of the popular music of my youth - "video games". In this case, the music is from the 1980's side-scrolling, run & gun, 8-bit video game called Contra. Each track on this recording is an arrangement of the music of Contra, originally composed by Kyouhei Sada and Hidenori Maezawa from Konami Corporation. The songs chronicle each level (or stage) of the game, in sequential order

Contraband

By Francois Grillot

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2011

Contraband

By Contraband

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: Intro; Jungle; Base; The Boss; Waterfall; Snow Field; Energy Zone; Alien Lair; End Credits.

Cliff Colon: Contraband

by John Barron
November 6, 2008

Tenor saxophonist Cliff Colon makes his recording debut as a leader with Contraband, a disc containing jazz arrangements of music from a 1980s 8-bit video game called Contra. The disc's nine tracks chronicle each level of the game, in sequential order. Underneath the novelty of playing jazzed-up versions of electronic video game music lies clever arranging ...

Cliff Colon: Contraband

by Dan McClenaghan
October 26, 2008

Tacoma, Washington-based saxophonist Cliff Colon takes his inspiration where he finds it. In the case of his debut CD, Contraband, the inspiration comes from music of the 1980's side-scrolling, run and gun, eight-bit video game called Contra, which seems an unlikely source.But unlikely sources are pretty common in the jazz genre--Miles Davis' ...