Soul Ballet

Soul Ballet - 2019 (2009)



Artist: Soul Ballet
Title Of Album: 2019
Year Of Release: August 4, 2009
Label: NUGroove Records
Genre: Pop.Smooth Jazz, Soul, New Age
Format: MP3
Bitrate: CBR 320 kbps
Tracks: 10
Total Time: 00:45:40
Total Size: 102 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Boom! It's On!
02. Sly Girl
03. 2019
04. She Is Infinite
05. Girl X
06. SwaggaTron
07. Gravity Pole
08. Supa Sexy Star
09. Party Dollz
10. Her Tears Transform U

Check out the tasty new release from the actor/producer/arranger/programmer and multi-instrumentalist Rick "R.K."
Kelly returns with his 8th album, "2019" with some saucy originals that are ever so smooth and offer up cool grooves with a sweet glide.
It is a set that sits between chill and smooth jazz and which Kelly himself describes as a cross between "hip jazz and smooth hop".
The album contains gently funky smooth grooves with numbers like "Boom!It's On" and the title track.
If you like 80's electronica fused into your smooth grooves, this guy goes all the way with it.
With its instantly recognizable sound, "2019" alternates between sleek, strong instrumentals and hypnotic club electronica, re-affirmimg Soul Ballet's own style of Smooth Jazz.
Very enjoyable, it will please the romantics among you.

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Soul Ballet - Dream Beat Dream (2004)



Artist: Soul Ballet
Title Of Album: Dream Beat Dream
Year Of Release: August 10, 2004
Label: 215 Records
Genre: Smooth Jazz / Contemporary Jazz
Format: MP3
Bitrate: CBR 256 kbps
Tracks: 10
Total Time: 51:33 min
Total Size: 89 Mb


Tracklist:

01-She Rides
02-S.Beach
03-Feel This Beat
04-Cream
05-Her Whisper
06-My Secret
07- Her Dream
08-Jazzy Girl
09-Dreaming Of
10-Watching U

The dreamy, sexy music that Soul Ballet offers comes courtesy of Rick Kelly, who imagines Soul Ballet as a conceptual process. What kind of process? Well, it you like downtempo instrumentals with elements of classical, rock, new age and smooth jazz music, Soul Ballet is your musical nirvana. This is the style of romantic of music that is huge in Europe and in “chill music” circles. Kelly plays keyboards and uses samples, beat boxes and all available modern musical technology to provide a saucy sound that's unique to smooth jazz. Anyone who's heard Kelly's first single from the CD, the luscious “Cream,” will agree.

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Soul Ballet - Dial it in (2002)



Artist: Soul Ballet
Title Of Album: Dial it in
Year Of Release: February 26, 2002
Label: Gold Circle Records
Genre: Smooth Jazz / Contemporary Jazz
Format: MP3
Bitrate: CBR 320 kbps
Tracks: 10
Total Time: 47:16 min
Total Size: 107 Mb


Tracklist:

01. Want You (4:17)
02. Dial It In (4:03)
03. Nu Funk City (5:28)
04. I Feel the Love (4:25)
05. Ahh Girl (7:20)
06. Feeling the Beat (4:57)
07. Long Deep Kisses (5:27)
08. 1 Track Mind (4:56)
09. What Was... (0:56)
10. All About the Night (5:27)

Soul Ballet mastermind Rick Kelly continues to layer smooth jazz intrumentation over slightly ambient electronica on Dial It In, an album that shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with his previous few efforts. Kelly has his trademark smooth jazz/electronica hybrid down to a science at this point, for better or worse. Each of the tracks begins and ends with a rather bland yet affective electronica rhythm driven by light synthetic percussion and lulling synth ambience; there aren't any boomin' bass beats or frantic rhythms here, just "lite" electronica that should neither impress nor repel too many people (potentially derogatory descriptors such as "generic" and "bland" come to mind). Over these electronica rhythms, Kelly layers smooth jazz instrumentation -- a Kenny G-esque sax here and a world music-esque acoustic guitar there. This jazz side of the Soul Ballet equation may be simple, but it is a bit more interesting and certainly more engaging than the electronica side; in fact, the latter seems almost superfluous, like some sort of "hip" ornamentation to help Kelly's music cross over to a wannabe-hip mainstream audience (the sci-fi font in the liner notes is yet more superfluous ornamentation). Of course, this hybrid of smooth jazz and electronica isn't exactly innovative circa 2002, being practiced to much more acclaim by such acts as St. Germain, but you can't help but sense that Soul Ballet is a bit more accessible, the sort of music you'd find prominently displayed on an endcap at Borders next to the latest Sarah Brightman studio album. However, none of this should be news to anyone who has heard Kelly's other Soul Ballet releases. As mentioned earlier, his music has become as much science as it is trademark by this point in his career, perhaps the one exception being the admittedly lovely vocal track "I Feel the Love." Too bad there aren't more tracks like this on Dial It In. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide

Album credits:

Ken Ross - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
John A. Williamson - Photography
Soul Ballet - Main Performer
Kevin Reach - Engineer, Mixing, Editing
Rick Kelly - Guitar (Acoustic), Sound Design, Art Direction, Piano (Electric), Producer, Drums, Piano
Steve Barri - Executive Producer

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Soul Ballet - Lavish (2007)

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Artist: Soul Ballet
Title Of Album: Lavish
Year Of Release: 2007
Genre: Smooth Jazz
Quality/Bitrate: MP3 / 256 (VBR) kbps / 44.1 Khz / Stereo
Total Time: 54 min 51 sec
Total Size: 100 MB

Composer and instrumentalist Rick Kelley is ready to release the newest CD from Soul Ballet, titled Lavish, on September 11th 2007. The Artizen Music Group release features guest appearances by two of the label’s owners, Rick Braun and Richard Elliot. The first single from the set is “Smooth Vegas,” which features Elliot on saxophone. Soul Ballet last topped the smooth jazz charts with “Cream,” a track from the 2005 release Dream Beat Dream. Kelly, who in addition to music continues to succeed as an actor, says that his love of contemporary pop and hip-hop helped shape the musical feel of Lavish. Lavish will be the seventh CD from Soul Ballet since the self-titled 1996 debut.

“I’m really into the whole hip-hop thing, not the hardcore stuff but the pop side,” Kelley explains, adding that he enjoys the work of producers like Timbaland and Pharrell and the work of pop acts Nelly Furtado, Gwen Stefani, and Justin Timberlake.

“Throughout the making of the project, I was trying to conceptualize the coolest way to blend those beats and flavors with smooth jazz,” he adds. “The result is something no one else in contemporary jazz is doing.”


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01. Glitters Is Gold (0:27)
02. In The VIP (3:49)
03. Smooth Vegas (3:49)
04. Lavish (7:12)
05. Da Da Diamonds (3:44)
06. Tuscan Chica (7:42)
07. Luv'll Find A Way (5:39)
08. Platinum Life (7:39)
09. Every X You'r Near (4:52)
10. Midnite Cruz'n (4:28)
11. The Cool Down (5:30)

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Soul Ballet - All The Pretty Lights (2005)



Artist: Soul Ballet
Title Of Album: All The Pretty Lights
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: 215 Records
Genre: Smooth Jazz, New Age
Format: MP3
Bitrate: VBR ~240 kbps
Tracks: 10
Total Time: 58:43 min
Total Size: 102 MB

Tracklist:

01. Man And Woman (6:56)
02. Exotique (7:49)
03. Love Juliet (7:02)
04. The Revolution (1:12)
05. Make The Music Louder (6:01)
06. Blu Girl (6:50)
07. Am I Close Enough (8:45)
08. Pretty Lights (1:32)
09. NYC Trippin' (8:09)
10. Monique Slept Here (9:03)

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Soul Ballet - All The Pretty Lights (2004)



Artist: Soul Ballet
Title Of Album: All The Pretty Lights
Year Of Release: 2004
Label: 215 Records
Genre: Smooth Jazz, New Age
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 58:43
Total Size: 136 MB

01. Man And Woman (6:56)
02. Exotique (7:49)
03. Love Juliet (7:02)
04. The Revolution (1:12)
05. Make The Music Louder (6:01)
06. Blu Girl (6:50)
07. Am I Close Enough (8:45)
08. Pretty Lights (1:32)
09. NYC Trippin' (8:09)
10. Monique Slept Here (9:03)

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