Jeff Oster

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Jeff Oster

Background information
Born	May 31, 1957 Danville, Illinois, US
Origin	Alameda California, US
Genre(s)	New Age Acoustic Electronica Jazz Classical
Occupation(s)	Musician Songwriter Financial Planner
Instrument(s)	Flugelhorn, Trumpet
Years active	1975 -Present
Label(s)	Retso Records
Website	jeffoster.com

Jeff Oster is an American wind instrument player who has recorded flugelhorn or trumpet with artists such as William Ackerman, founder of Windham Hill Records.

In 2004, Oster and Ackerman collaborated on, and Ackerman produced Oster's 4-track EP, At Last, and followed this with his CD Released in 2005. Released won the 2005 Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album awards at the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards presented by NewAgeReporter.com, a music airplay tracking agency. The composition At Last, co-written by Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman, and performed by Jeff Oster, Will Ackerman, Philip Aaberg and Happy Rhodes, also won the Best New Age Song award at the 2005 Independent Music Awards. Also appearing on Released are Jeff Pearce (American artist), Charlie Bisharat, Philip Aaberg, Gregory Douglass, Bryan Carrigan, Taylor Barefoot, Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, Jeremy Mendicino, and Happy Rhodes.

In 2007, Ackerman produced True, which features music composed by Oster and Ackerman, Ugandan vocalist Samite, Jan Pulsford and Patrick Gorman, and guest performances from Michael Manring, Philip Aaberg, Eugene Friesen, Keith Carlock, Jan Pulsford, Patrick Gorman, Samite, Derrik Jordan, Bryan Carrigan and singers Melissa Kaplan from Splashdown, and Noah Wilding.

In December, 2007, one of the songs from "TRUE", the composition Saturn Calling, written and arranged by Jeff Oster, won the Best New Age Song award at the 2008 Independent Music Awards. Listeners of the national radio program, Echoes, voted "TRUE" as its 10th place winner for The 2007 Listeners Poll, and the Echoes staff chose it as one of the 25 Essential Echoes CD's for 2007. "TRUE" won the 2007 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards for Album Of The Year and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album in March, 2008.

Jeff Oster is currently working with Richard Bone to create electronic and horn creations consistent with the long line of experimental collaborations Bone is known for.

On April 23,2008, NASA and JPL added a profile of Jeff Osterand his song Saturn Calling - the first track from his CD "TRUE", to the NASA and Cassini-Huygens websites. Saturn Calling includes a sound excerpt from the Cassini spacecraft's recording of the auroras of Saturn. Listen to Saturn Calling here.