Styles Disk #54 Mainstream Jazz

This styles set features Mainstream Jazz styles from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Many of these styles were inspired by requests and suggestions posted in the Styles Wish List forum on our web page at www.pgmusic.com. Many are based on Jazz feels that have become very popular and widely used. You'll find styles with rhythm feels like 4/4 Swing Jazz styles, Ballads, Jazz waltzes, even 8th feel Jazz, Jazz Funk, styles with different feels in the "a" and "b" sections, Funk Jazz and Bossas - styles with names like BossaSw, BrubkBal, Darin1, Deodat1, Duke1, JzClypso, ModJazQt, Ramsey1, TradDixi, Horace1, Herbie2, and many more. A few of the styles are designed for big band vocal accompaniment.

A great feature added in Band-in-a-Box 2006 allows instrument changes in the "b" section of tunes. Many of these styles make use of this new feature. The styles will play fine on previous versions, but if you don't have Band-in-a-Box 2006 or later the "instrument change in the 'b' section" feature will be unavailable. In most cases, the instrument changes are subtle and are used to brighten up or slightly change the "b" section. For example, an acoustic bass at "a" might change to a fretless bass at "b." Some styles like EVEN_SW.STY or BRUBKBAL.STY feature 2 distinctly different rhythmic feels for each section.

Effects like reverb, chorus, and panning are not embedded in a style, so these settings should be set and saved with the tune from the main song page (Alt+F2). The demo tunes for these styles follow the same naming convention as the styles themselves. For example, the DEMO song for JZCLYPSO.STY is JZCLYPSO.MGU.

All Styles Sets, including this one, are available as part of the Band-in-a-Box MegaPAK software bundle. Get them all with the Band-in-a-Box MegaPAK, available for both Windows and Macintosh.