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| Jazz Tracks As Ringtones Blue Note Records has begun releasing ring tunes featuring riffs from some classic recordings by legendary artists including Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey and Chet Baker. Part of a new program called "The Best of Blue Tones", this marks the first time these tracks have been made available for the mobile platform, and it will give jazz fans an opportunity to personalize their mobile lives with the classic jazz tracks they know and love. Lundvall worked closely with members of the Blue Note team to personally select the first installment of ringtones, even helping to identify the unique hook that should be used for each track. "We've only just scratched the surface of the classic Blue Note catalog with this first batch, " said Jeff Zakim, Director of New Media for Blue Note. "Jazz buffs are in for a real treat as this is just the first of many ringtones we plan to make available." Founded in 1939, Blue Note built one of the most distinctive jazz catalogs throughout the 1950s and 60s, due to the impeccable A&R instincts of founder Alfred Lion who signed many of the giants of the music when they were still unknowns, and the crystalline sound quality engineered by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder. Blue Note was consistently on the cutting edge of jazz, starting with the label's early bebop recordings of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Clifford Brown, and going on to define the now-famous "Blue Note Sound" with the incomparable hard bop sessions of Art Blakey and Horace Silver, the funky jazz hits of Lee Morgan and Herbie Hancock, and the grooving soul jazz of organists Jimmy Smith and Lonnie Smith. Blue Note also now oversees the great Pacific Jazz catalog, which is home to classic cool jazz recordings by such west coast musicians as Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan. The following classic Blue Note tunes are starting to be made available to major carriers in the US and will be made available internationally shortly as part of "The Best of Blue Tones" program: Art Blakey - Dat Dere, Art Blakey - Moanin', Clifford Brown - Daahoud, Clifford Brown - Joy Spring, Herbie Hancock - Cantaloup Island, Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man, Blue Mitchell - Fungii Mama, Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser, Lou Donaldson - The Blues Walk, Lou Donaldson - Aligator Boogaloo, Hank Mobley - The Turnaround, Kenny Burrell - Chitlins Con Carne, Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine, Gerry Mulligan - Bernie's Tune, Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder, Miles Davis - Move, Ornette Coleman - Broad Way Blues, Ronnie Laws - Always There, Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack, Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin', Lonnie Smith - Son Of Ice Bag, Bobby Hutcherson - Ummh, Freddie Hubbard - Crisis, Horace Silver - Song For My Father. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |