
“Gary Garritan’s latest product is aimed at the jazz community, offering an enormous number of multi-sampled instruments at an unfeasibly low UK price. Here’s a tap on the stand to the Garritan crew!” But whether you’re composing a smokin’ swing or bop chart or arranging an ultra smooth fusion or cool score, Jazz and Big Band will be the only sample library you’ll need. A healthy dose of MIDI controller data is often needed to create convincing musical passages. Jazz and Big Band uses a “performance-driven” approach to articulation that requires you shape and sculpt the performances. This “band” has groove power that will lift you out of your seat, with wailing saxes, screeching trumpets and howling trombones as well as a full rhythm section that never drops a beat…. “Composing and arranging for jazz band just got a lot easier…. The First Jazz Library to win the Editor’s Choice Award Reviewed by Adrian Frost in the December 2012 issueĮlectronic Musician 2007 Editors Choice Award If you are putting together some some Jazz music, a bit of Fusion or wanting to recreate the Big Band era than JABB3 deserves your consideration.” “This is very much a complete library for those looking for a good range of instruments for the Jazz and Big Band genres…it excels at what it does. Each sax has a bunch of dedicated controls including, but not limited to, slur, auto-slur, vibrato, key click, growl, intonation and timbre…you can produce a performance that is almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
