| Mainstream | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | the Fullerton College Jazz Band |
| Cover: | Mainstream CD cover fixed.jpg |
| Released: | 1994 |
| Recorded: | Fullerton College Fullerton, California |
| Genre: | Jazz, big band, instrumental |
| Length: | 59:00 |
| Label: | JLFC |
| Producer: | James Linahon |
| Prev Title: | Soundtrack |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Celebration! |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
| Misc: | cat. #9012 |
Mainstream is a CD released by the Fullerton College Jazz Band in 1994, it was critically acclaimed by Down Beat Magazine being given three and a half stars.[1]
In 1981 the Music Department at Fullerton College built a 16 track in house recording facility which was to serve as a teaching tool for both student music groups and students wanting to take recording technology classes at a vocational level. By 1994, when the CD Mainstream was produced, there has been several award winning recordings such as Time Tripping coming from the Fullerton College Jazz Band.[2] The group has been the recipient of numerous Down Beat and NARAS awards and the CDs are distributed worldwide.[3]
During this time the group was selected as the winner for the first ten-day Disney World/International Association for Jazz Education competition for College and University bands; the Fullerton College Jazz Band #1 performed at Disney World in Orlando during the inaugural concerts. After a two-week tour for the U.S. State Department, they opened the 1995 Munich International Jazz Festival.[4]
The CD was dedicated to Rich Matteson who was a highly noted educator and musical artist; he had passed in 1993 shortly after his performances on the recording. A video recording was also made of Matteson's appearance on the CD.[5] Two of the tracks are arranged by Fullerton College Jazz Band alum Jack Cooper.[6]
Good/Very Good - "... Most of the pieces are classic American songbook material played with the command of a good studio band ..."