Search - Various Artists :: Last Minute Jam Vol. 2 (Minutes to Millennium)

Scores of Philadelphia musicians perform on this unique CD. The format is unprecedented: a single CD of sixty-nine tracks, with each track exactly sixty seconds--one minute--in length. The CD covers many musical genres including pop, rock, hip hop, jazz, country, swing, folk, R&B and spoken word. The record features many prominent Philadelphia artists as well as area high school students and Philadelphia police officers. The Philadelphia artists who responded to the challenge of coming up with a "minute piece" include: Tommy Conwell, BMG artist Lauren Hart, Rolling Hayseeds Kevin Karg and Rich Kaufmann, Nancy Falkow (1998 Lillith Fair opening act), Ben Arnold, Cory, Chuck Treece and Eltro. The Soul Survivors, popular for the Gamble & Huff hit "Expressway to Your Heart," contribute a salute to Philadelphia,"City of Brotherly Love." Also appearing on the album are Stewkey, lead vocalist of the popular 60's band The Nazz, Todd Rundgren's guitarist/keyboardist John Ferenzik and George Carnell who has engineered albums for Patti Smith, Foreigner and Utopia. Marvis Frazier, son of boxer Joe Frazier and now a preacher, performs a moving spoken word piece, "Young Man." A band composed of Philadelphia police officers, Philly Heat, performs "Moonlight Train." Many area high school students participated in the CD Father Judge High School jazz band players comprise the band Awake, Germantown Select and Friends Select kids perform as Wrong Way Out and 17 year old violinist Noah Sedgwick from the Girard Academic Music Program plays. All profits from sales of the CD will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Settlement Music School and the Philadelphia Branch of the Recording Academy.