| Product Summary | | Label: Elektra/asylum Records | | UPC: 00075596282925 | | Release Date: 10/15/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60574759 | | Item#: M9S4JD | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 2124 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. You And I Both ~ Jason Mraz |  | | 2. I'll Do Anything ~ Jason Mraz | | | 3. Remedy, The (I Don't Worry) ~ Jason Mraz | | | 4. Who Needs Shelter ~ Jason Mraz | | | 5. Curbside Prophet ~ Jason Mraz | | | 6. Sleep All Day ~ Jason Mraz | | | 7. Too Much Food ~ Jason Mraz | | | 8. Absolutely Zero ~ Jason Mraz | | | 9. On Love, In Sadness ~ Jason Mraz | | | 10. No Stopping Us ~ Jason Mraz | | | 11. Boy's Gone, The ~ Jason Mraz | | | 12. Tonight, Not Again ~ Jason Mraz | |
| Trying to reproduce what he once heard in his dreams--a wide-awake sound of intense clarity, Jason Mraz brings us his debut record. Produced by John Alagia (Dave Matthews Band/John Mayer), Mraz 's Waiting For My Rocket To Come has been highly anticipated.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Jason Mraz (vocals, acoustic guitar); Michael Andrews (acoustic, electric & slide guitars, banjo, ukulele); John Alagia (electric guitar, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ, percussion); Alex McCallum (electric guitar); Greg Kurstin (electric piano, Clavinet, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, synthesizer); Shane Endsley (trumpet); Stewart Myers (bass); Brian Jones (drums); Toca Rivera (background vocals). | | Personnel: Jason Mraz (vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Michael Andrews (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, ukulele, celesta, Mellotron); John Alagia (electric guitar, Wurlitzer organ, shaker, tambourine); Ben Wendel (saxophone); Shane Endsley (trumpet); Scot Ray (trombone); Greg Kurstin (piano, electric piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, organ, synthesizer); Hesta Prynn (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Jeff Juliano ; John Alagia. | | Recording information: Dragonfly Studios, Haymarket, CA; The Crabtrap, Easton, MD. | | Photographer: Alison Dyer. | | Although young Jason Mraz's percussive acoustic guitar rhythms, tumbling verbiage, and funk/folk/jazz/pop concoctions may occasionally bear echoes of John Mayer and Dave Matthews, that's only one part of a bigger musical story as realized on the singer-songwriter's debut album WAITING FOR MY ROCKET TO COME. "Absolutely Zero," for instance, is a sophisticated, atmospheric ballad that bears echoes of Jeff Buckley and Coldplay. With its sunny horns, wah-wah guitar, and bouncy groove, "No Stopping Us" sounds like a lost '70s AM pop classic. "I'll Do Anything" alternates a rock chorus with a percolating reggae feel on the verses. And while the aforementioned Mayer and Matthews are admittedly predisposed toward a somewhat mumbling vocal style, Mraz sports a strong, bright voice loaded with both range and personality, making it that much easier for him to glide from style to style throughout the album. |
Producer: John Alagia |
Engineer: Jeff Juliano |
| | Artist Overview | | Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz made a big showing straight out of the gate with his platinum-selling major-label debut, WAITING FOR MY ROCKET TO COME, in 2002. His mix of pop melodies, funky grooves, and organic, often acoustic-based production earned him immediate comparisons to the likes of John Mayer and the Dave Matthews Band. Over the next few years, Mraz's subsequent albums attained increasingly higher levels of popularity for the singer, and by 2007 his songs had already become AMERICAN IDOL fodder. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/15/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 62829 | | Label : Elektra | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00075596282925 |
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| | Bio | | Jason Mraz is a Southern California wanna-be born in virginia to a brief stint in new york studying the ancient art of musical theatre. Jason began playing guitar late in life, 18, at strawberry fields and on the streets of Manhattan. during that period of experimentation and transformation, jason was inspired by a psychic in central park to dream the way he does today. the lesson offered to him was "to avoid the questioner and go with what you know. get experience youth, he said" and following this new rule as well as his instincts to sing he eventually made his way out west where he has spent the last two years in San Diego learning from the best about sleep, peace, and poetry in song. Jason has always had a vision to see how songs could be interpreted if left only to the listener to decide. What began as "songs to sleep to", a collection of songs for an album fit to play during one's dreamlife, has now evolved into a moving wide awake exploration for Jason. since his ridiculous move out west (according to his Virginia native family), he has shared venues with Bob Dylan, Paula Cole, Jewel, and David Gray to name a few.
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