RealBand is a new program that combines the most popular features from PG Music’s PowerTracks Pro Audio and Band-in-a-Box programs into an all-in-one sequencing program with automatic accompaniment.

With RealBand you can create an arrangement with Band-in-a-Box tracks; type in the chords, add RealTracks and RealDrums that follow the chord changes, add your own tracks, and then edit and produce the finished song without ever leaving the program!

With intelligent automatic arrangements, RealTracks live instrument tracks, RealDrums live drum tracks, the amazing Audio Chord Wizard, seamlessly integrated digital audio/MIDI recording, built-in DirectX effects, and notation, RealBand turns a typical PC into a music production powerhouse.

This Soloist set is the first in the "Artist Soloist" series. These soloist databases in the Artist series are created and designed by the performers themselves! This set is designed by the great New York pianist Andy LaVerne in the Mainstream Jazz style. A veteran of groups like Woody Herman and Stan Getz, Andy has performed with all the greats in Jazz, and is featured regularly in Keyboard Magazine.

Jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Andy LaVerne studied at Juilliard, Berklee, and the New England Conservatory, and took private lessons from pianist Bill Evans. The list of musicians with whom Andy has worked reads like a Who's Who in jazz: Frank Sinatra, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Lionel Hampton, Michael Brecker, Elvin Jones & numerous others. A prolific recording artist, his projects as a leader number 40+, among the most recent is a quartet recording featuring trumpeter Randy Brecker, bassist George Mraz, and drummer Al Foster, Four Miles (Polygram), which reached the top ten on the Gavin Jazz Chart.

"Timeline" (SteepleChase), LaVerne's latest CD, is a collection of ballads. He is also a prominent jazz educator, having released a series of instructional videos, Guide to Modern Jazz Piano, Vols. 1 & 2, and Jazz Piano Standards (Home- spun Tapes), featuring the Yamaha Disklavier, as well as the video, In Concert (Homespun), with John Abercrombie. He is the author of Handbook of Chord Substitutions, Tons of Runs (Ekay), The Music Of Andy LaVerne (SteepleChase Publications), and 19 Solo Piano Arrangements of Compositions by Bill Evans (Hal Leonard). Countdown To Giant Steps (Aebersold Jazz) is a two CD play-a-long with companion book, of which LaVerne served as player/producer & writer. Tunes You Thought You Knew (Aebersold Jazz) is a LaVerne play-a-long CD/book set. Secret of the Andes is a new Aebersold playalong which is a collection of Andy LaVerne compositions.

Andy is the recipient of five Jazz Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and winner of the 2000 John Lennon Songwriting contest for his tune Shania. He has appeared at concerts, festivals, and clubs throughout the world, and has also given clinics at universities, colleges, and conservatories around the world. LaVerne is professor of Jazz Piano at The Hartt School, The University of Hartford. He has recently been recording and touring with legendary singer/songwriter Neil Sedaka.