JEFF OSTER
Released
(p) (c) 2005 Retso Records
9tks/45mins

Among ungrounded illusions in this world
The only love
That's everlasting and undergoing changes
Exists...

      When a man is occupied with his life affair, when he possesses a nice family and fine home, what else does he need? Maybe, it is important for him to deliver to others his inward world, to be heard by other people, just to share his own universe with persons beside. What else can be more precious than this present? What can a person really give to other people in addition to his love?...

      And such a present to the audience is favoured generously by Jeff Oster. A musician of about fifty years old has rushed into the modern music' world with his surprisingly fresh and sincere debut full length CD " Released" . In this album there is a delicate taste of a musician who has been remaining faithful to love to his favourite instruments through many long years: a trumpet and a flugelhorn. Acoustic instruments in the " Released" album are skilfully supplemented with electronic ones. The sounding of the disc is very intelligent and refined. And it cannot be otherwise as far as the album has been produced personally by William Ackerman, a founding father of a legendary studio Windham Hill. His solo on an acoustic guitar, a solo full of inherent calm and conciliation in combination with a shrill flugelhorn by Jeff Oster in the composition " Released" recur to our memory the best projects issued by Windham Hill Records. It should be said that in addition to William Ackerman such artists as Philip Aaberg - piano, Taylor Barefoot - electric and acoustic guitar and drum programming, Happy Rhodes - vocals, T.Bone Walk - bass and moreover a whole number of outstanding musicians assisted Jeff Oster with recording this album.

      I would like to mention one more feature in Jeff Oster’s creativity: optimism and taste of freedom are available in his music. Jeff Oster expresses his emotions in a simple and clear manner and helps us to realize that in the world that’s surrounding us there are no violence and suppression in reality, this world was created for love, joy and creation, and all marasmus and sufferings were brought to this world by the people who lost a creative ability. Jeff Oster calls upon to look inside ourselves, to sense the beatitude which everybody possesses inside. And nothing and nobody is in power to destroy this inner treasure in a man because this is just the Life itself…

      The album “Released” is like a long-expected sea flood, a gulp of a fresh wind, a return to true values…

Serge Kozlovsky
http://sergekozlovsky.com

P.S. Translated by Tatyana L. Permyakova.