A Jeff Oster LIVE! show is a special evening of sound, light and color. With a sound moving through cool jazz, cool ambience and hot funk, the Jeff Oster experience leaves audiences both satisfied and yearning for more. Jeff Oster LIVE! is an all-star group of musicians who together, deliver a full ambient jazz funk experience. Led by award-winning fugelhorn/trumpet player Jeff Oster, this is a show that must be heard and seen to be believed.
The group features Grammy nominated fretless bassist Michael Manring, new age guitarist Todd Boston, Brazilian drummer Celso Alberti, sax phenom Jeff Taboloff, keyboardist extraordinaire Frank Martin and trumpet/fugelhorn maestro Jeff Oster.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of funky, New Age jazz that values groove and improvisation above all else.
ABOUT JEFF OSTER
Think Miles meets Enya…
Born in Danville, Illinois, Jeff began playing trumpet at the age of eight. After years of study in classical and jazz, he moved to L.A. in 1979 to pursue a career full time in music. He honed his live performance skills on the LA club scene, then in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and Atlantic City. Along the way, he developed an intriguing presence in live performance that has to be seen (and heard) to be fully appreciated. Now living in the San Francisco Bay Area, he continues to play venues locally and around the country.
Jeff’s sound is a combination of his parents’ influences of 30s and 40s lyrical standards and his own passion for progressive rock, jazz and funk. His own brand of fusion features layered soundscapes that include his trumpet, fugelhorn and synthesizer tones. The result is an intoxicating blend of jazz, funk, ambient and new age, which Jeff calls “New Age Ambient Funk.”
Jeff’s music has earned numerous awards – such as ZMR Album of the Year (3x winner), multiple #1 albums on NPR’s Echoes, and 2x winner of Best New Age Song in the Independent Music Awards.
