Month: May 2021

Broadjam Artist: Benjamin Stone
Song: PRAIRIE MEDITATION 9: TO BUILD GESTALT

Reviewer: jim Finan

Positive Comments: Its a slow fade in to the song as if you are walking or moving and drawn towards it. Thought it was a smaller ensemble, but more sounds now being heard with a piano and busy bassonist that needs to have a say while others volume down a bit. Nice volume changes and key introductions along with volume and texture changes. Its all intrigueing and interesting. Good measure counting! A fuller string sound is revealed feom time to time. And yes, tympani is present and changes pitches and plays rolls loud and soft. Not just an amateur here! Excellent piece and very interesting!! Really like it. I can even see it accompanying something animated.

Constructive Comments: Not a whole lot to add to improve upon. Every normal musical expression practically is used in the normal sense. I suppose one could resort to even further development, additional musical sections, solos,pauseing, rests,special effects, poetry included at some point. But that ruins the wonderful truly cleverly and sober creation ! Excellent ++

Broadjam Artist: Felice Kaye-Cooper / Songwriter
Song: Bach, CPE Solfeggetto

Reviewer: jim Finan

Positive Comments: Wow! Seems like a valve Trombone or something! No slide could move that fast! If its made of brass.it’s classic sounding like a fugue with dueling trombones. How unique. Love that feel! And throw in a trap set! Its invented now and it happens to be in the same room! So Uses it uses electric but the feel is authentic and a newer audience will apreciate the voiceings and timbre. Probably a little too demanding for the lips! Great job!

Constructive Comments: Different additions would nit probeebly be a option to keep exclusively to this melodic adventure. Could probably stand some counterpoint or more variations, but that might make it a very expanded version of an excellnt mode already! Changing of key or harmonic additives might just get in the way anyhow. Its a good thing on its own anyway! Congratualations!

Broadjam Artist: COSTA / Costa Ioannides
Song: Whale Hunt

Reviewer: Fred Kimmel

Positive Comments: Great Worldbeat composition and arrangement with wicked percussion on FX. Fun listen.

Constructive Comments: None I can think of

Broadjam Artist: Felice Kaye-Cooper / Songwriter
Song: Unspoken Words Of Love

Reviewer: Fred Kimmel

Positive Comments: Charmomg piece performed on what I think is Electric Piano. Soundtrack wise makes me invision some European romantic move

Constructive Comments: I could be wrong, but it sounds like Felice

Broadjam Artist: Benjamin Stone
Song: THE SCOTCH CLUB

Reviewer: Fred Kimmel

Positive Comments: Love this piece. Awesome sounds and mix and arrangement. Just crazy.Great stuff

Constructive Comments: None I can think of

Broadjam Artist: jim Finan
Song: Dont need to take a breath

Reviewer: Fred Kimmel

Positive Comments: Wild fusion piece. Keyboard madness. Great stuff!

Constructive Comments: Mix, not so great for me. Once again, it could just be my taste. The drums sounds sound weak to me, as if they were in another room. The EP is right in your face and I can’t hear the bass with headphones on.

Broadjam Artist: Eddie Leighton
Song: Step outside my blues

Reviewer: Fred Kimmel

Positive Comments: I absolutely love this track. Powerhouse lead vocal on this ditty. Rocks so hard it will bring down the walls if your not careful. The band is smokin’. Wicked guitar solo to boot. This is Blues/Rock perfection!

Constructive Comments: It’s a hit. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!!

Broadjam Artist: Bobby Caputo
Song: Don’t Let Me Go Too Far

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: I love this song! It tells a story of a couple that just met…and the guy is cautious. He’s been burned before (love: Just spent 3 years on a glorified date). This is a super original refreshing writer. Great job setting the stage and developing the story. The hook is perfect and fits each verse aptly. The fiddle gets 5 stars for augmenting the story with masterful playing. This is all around just a great, great song and I wish you the best with it!

Constructive Comments: Nothing to improve, in my humble opinion. Keep the great songs and stories coming.

Broadjam Artist: Scott Tingley
Song: Prilla

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: Here’s a song that was most likely written for a specific couple, for their wedding day. It’s upbeat, fun, original and very melodic. The name “Prilla” has a nice ring to it and the writer/singer makes the most of that musical sound. I love the full band sound and the horn solos, as well as the background vocals. You can tell a lot of love went into the writing of this song. It definitely comes through.

Constructive Comments: Doesn’t really seem like folk/rock to me. Sounds more pop but I’m not the genre expert!

Broadjam Artist: Jeana Potthoff
Song: Into Thin Air

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: Another beautiful instrumental that builds nicely. Nice job on the keys and the strings bed. Nicely put together and mixed. Contemplative, evokes a sense of wondering, desire and loss. The artist knows how to speak with her (?) fingers telling a story. She’s really good at this!

Constructive Comments: I am guessing this is Jeanna. Hope I’m not mistaken. I would have liked to hear the last note resolved.