The Jazz EZX

About the performer This Jazz EZX features sample
performed by the legendary Drum Virtuoso/Pioneer Ro
.Futureman. Wooten.

Futureman is a multiple Grammy award winnin
composer, inventor, and multi-instrumentalist who ha
been a pioneer in using sampled drums since 1985. H
has shared the stage and numerous albums with man
Jazz legends.

Roy started playing acoustic drums as a young chil
with his brothers in Virginia. From that he has com
a long way and is now renowned for playing what i
called a SynthAxe-Drumitar to trigger drum samples

As an instrumentalist Roy Wooten strives to emplo
the power and science of Mother Nature and hi
percussive technique takes playing drums way beyon
just simple time keeping. His approach is a much mor
all-encompassing and universal one. Futureman view
himself as a storyteller playing music to reac
beyond the limits of common musical understanding

He invented and built the Drumitar to be able t
voice his own revolutionary approach to Jazz with th
groundbreaking group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
As a result Futureman has performed using Toontrac
Music samples to an audience of millions, live a
some of the most popular and critically revere
performance halls, clubs, TV shows and festivals o
the planet. Through Roy Wooten our sounds have mad
it through to the airwaves of places like Carnegi
Hall and premier Greenwich Village Jazz club Blu
Note.

About the sessions Throughout our history of creatin
sample libraries and instruments, we have strived t
both innovate and preserve in all areas o
performance, engineering, and genre. In creating thi
library we went to new and unheard of levels o
dynamic. The recordings feature layered sampling wit
numerous mic stems fronted by recording chains we ha
previously only dreamt of.

In the fall of 07', we began the Jazz with Futurema
at the impeccable Blackbird Studios. His passion an
knowledge of Jazz history met with a relentlessl
energetic and musical approach to single not
striking that left the Toontrack crew in utte
disbelief.

Roy hears every single hit and swirl recorded as par
of a larger whole, as part of a musical sequenc
rather than as solitary, monotonous hit. The result
are samples that strike with intensity and forc
lending unique scope and musicality to thes
recordings.

The recordings for the Jazz EZX set a benchmark fo
how sampling percussive instruments, and musica
instruments in general, will be done in the future

Toontrack Music has had the privilege to capture th
magic of Futureman. His touch, his heart, hi
philosophy and his unique approach to his craft i
this Jazz EZX. The story of jazz drums has a ne
chapter.

http://www.toontrack.com/ezdrummer.asp

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