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George Benson Offers Students & Musicians An Online, Interactive Jazz Experience

George Benson and Vinny Valentino have teamed up to provide guitar, jazz, and music enthusiasts alike with these amazing songs, each of them recorded exclusively for PlayAlongJazz.com and available as a digital download. Players can choose from a variety of options including the individual tracks as well as packages with the complete tracks as they were recorded.

George Benson As Recorded

George Benson Packages

George Benson minus guitar

Affirmation, Breezin and This Masquerade (as recorded)

6 tracks in all/Affirmation, Breezin and This Masquerade (as recorded and minus guitar)

6 tracks in all/Affirmation, Breezin and This Masquerade (as recorded and minus bass)

6 tracks in all/Affirmation, Breezin and This Masquerade (as recorded and minus drums)

6 tracks in all/Affirmation, Breezin and This Masquerade (as recorded and minus piano)

 

30 Tracks

30 of the most popular PAJ tracks in one product.  Just pick your instrument.

Thomas Lang

ThomasLangThomas Lang was born in Austria on August 5, 1967. Like most professionals, he started playing the drums at the age of 5. Years of drum lessons and practice brought this young and upcoming drummer along very well. Thomas Lang was the youngest student to be enrolled at the Vienna Conservatory of Music. Here he learned all different styles of music like Jazz, Classical, Fusion, and big band. Upon graduation, Thomas immediately began working with many different bands and artists in Europe. He engulfed himself in work, sometimes doing up to 15 projects at a time. Eventually, Thomas established a name for himself.

Play Along Jazz is proud to offer 3 original tracks performed by drummer Thomas Lang and the Play Along Jazz band. The compositions are written and arranged by Vinny Valentino specifically for Thomas Lang and exclusively for PAJ.

Color Funk,
Pinch Me and
The Druminator.  A variety of products are available for download.  
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Thomas Lang Packages

Thomas Lang Minus Drums

Thomas Lang As Recorded

Thomas Lang Minus Bass

Thomas Lang Minus Guitar

Thomas Lang Minus Keys

 

Joel Rosenblatt

JoelRJoel Rosenblatt is best known as the drummer for Spyro Gyra, one of the most successful pop-jazz groups ever.  Joel’s varied early work including Dominican pianist Michel Camilo, bluesman Matt “Guitar” Murphy, jazz artist Paquito D’Rivera, and country-rock band Pure Prairie League, has given him a wide range of experience as well as making him one of the most diverse drummers around. Joel Rosenblatt and playalongjazz bring you video performance tutorials. Each video contains a live performance of Joel playing along to the actual track and commentary on how he approaches the drum part. You can purchase a package which contains the track minus drums, the video, and the sheet music. The videos are also available separately.

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The Chicken
The Chicken minus drums
The Chicken minus bass
The Chicken minus guitar
The Chicken minus keys

Double B Double V minus drums

Double B Double V as recorded

 

Steve Smith

steve_smithSteve Smith’s drumming, while always decidedly modern, can best be described as a style that embodies the history of U.S. music. His original love of rudimental parade drumming is evident in his intricate solos. Likewise, his command of jazz, from New Orleans music, swing, bebop, avant-garde to fusion, is applied with his powerful rock drumming sensibilities and allows him to expand the boundaries of all styles. His musical focus is committed to the exploration of improvised music incorporating styles as diverse as Blues, Jazz, R&B, Funk, Cajun and South Indian Carnatic.

Vital Information - Vitalization CD

Originally drawn to the drums by hearing marching bands in parades as a child in his native Massachusetts, Smith began studying the drums at age nine, in 1963. After high school, Smith studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1972-76. There he received valuable instruction from such renowned teachers as Gary Chaffee and Alan Dawson.

In 1974 Smith’s professional career began in full, at 19 years old, with his tenure in the Lin Biviano Big Band, which he toured and recorded with for the next two years. At that same time he also performed with bebopper Buddy DeFranco and was a member of free-jazz group The Fringe featuring George Garzone. In 1976, Smith began his association with jazz/fusion by joining violinist Jean-Luc Ponty’s group and recording the 1977 landmark fusion album Enigmatic Ocean, which also featured guitarist Allan Holdsworth. It was while touring with rocker Ronnie Montrose a year later that Smith was asked to join the popular rock band Journey which brought his playing to the attention of a rock audience.

With Journey, Smith toured around the world and recorded numerous successful albums including the immensely popular Escape (Columbia 1981) and Frontiers (Columbia 1983), both of which garnered the band many Top 40 hits and worldwide sales of over 80 million albums. In 1985 Smith left Journey to pursue his original passion, jazz, and to continue his developing career as a session player. Over the past 30+ years, Smith has played on many hits with such diverse artists as Bryan Adams, Mariah Carey, Zucchero, Claudio Baglioni, Andrea Bocelli, Y&T, Dweezil Zappa, Ray Price, Corrado Rustici and Savage Garden.

 

Guitarist, Composer and PlayAlongJazz creator Vinny Valentino featured

VVLive1You’ve heard him on much of the PlayAlongJazz tracks.  Browse the content composed, arranged and performed by Vinny Valentino.  You can sample and purchase tracks from a list that he has recommended and recorded with and without the guitar.