Jake Shimabukuro

Jake Shimabukuro – Grateful (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 24, 2023 · Comments off

(Los Angeles, August 1, 2023) – On September 8th , the acclaimed Hawai’i-born ‘ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro will release Grateful, his most personal project to-date, featuring twenty-two collaborations with a who’s who of Hawai`i-based artists, from Henry Kapono to Kawika Kahiapo, Brother Noland to Raiatea Helm, Justin Kawika Young to Del Beazley and John Cruz to Kimié Miner.

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Jake Shimabukuro, Nolan Verner， Dave Preston – Trio (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 7, 2023 · Comments off

Jake Shimabukuro, Nolan Verner， Dave Preston - Trio (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Jake Shimabukuro has been redefining the capabilities of the ukulele for the last 20 years, and on February 14th, 2020 he returns with his new album ‘Trio,’ his first on Music Theories Recordings. It was nearly 15 years ago that the world first caught notice of the stunning musical artistry of Jake Shimabukuro. The young ukulele player’s gorgeous rendition of George Harrison’s ballad ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ whilst sat in Central Park, became one of the most-watched clips on the then newly launched YouTube platform, and now sits at 16.5m+ views. Guided by producer R.S. Field (Steve Earle, Webb Wilder, John Mayall, Sonny Landreth) Shimabukuro, bassist Nolan Verner, and guitarist Dave Preston holed up in Nashville’s Sound Emporium studio in early 2019 with only a few snippets of riffs and melodies fleshed out, and over the course of a week these jams took flight and became songs. “I really wanted to capture the sound that we make when we jam together,” Shimabukuro explains. “We get into this amazing improvisational zone at sound checks: Nolan will play a cool bass line, and Dave will chime in with these incredible guitar parts. Then I’ll come in right after and play melodies to what they’re doing. So I finally said, ‘We should just go into the studio, hit ‘record’ and see what happens.” Music fans will no doubt hail Trio as a high water mark for Shimabukuro.
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Jake Shimabukuro – Nashvile Sessions (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Jake Shimabukuro - Nashvile Sessions (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

For 15 years, Jake Shimabukuro has been expanding the possibilities of the ukulele as an instrument, bringing it from its role as a cornerstone of Hawaiian music into the worlds of rock, jazz and classical music. This January, Shimabukuro assembled a trio and went into the studio with no music written beforehand, in hopes of coming up with some decent ideas and maybe recording a song or two. Six days later, they had recorded Nashville Sessions, a full album of original compositions, written on the spot and recorded live.
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Jake Shimabukuro – Jake & Friends (2021-10-27) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Jake Shimabukuro - Jake & Friends (2021-10-27) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Jake & Friends, the second Jake Shimabukuro album with Mascot ( the previous – “Trio” – entered the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart at # 1), sees the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele, the Michael Jordan of his instrument (he has done a “Master Class” like Malcolm Gladwell and Serena Williams) in the company of a multi generational cast – from Willie Nelson and Bette Midler and Jimmy Buffett to Ziggy Marley and Billy Strings and Willie’s son Lukas. Four years in the making, Jake & Friends is loaded with new songs and favorite classics of all genres. As Jake said when the project was completed, “I have to pinch myself when I see these names on my own album, did that really happen?” Jake & Friends will be released on November 12, 2021 by Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group on CD, double vinyl and digitally.
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