Crosscurrent (Jake Shimabukuro album)

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Crosscurrent
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ReleasedAugust 26, 2003
Label Hitchhike Records
Jake Shimabukuro chronology
Sunday Morning
(2002)
Crosscurrent
(2003)
Walking Down Rainhill
(2004)

Crosscurrent is ukulele artist Jake Shimabukuro's second U.S. solo album. It was released in August 2003.

Ukulele member of the guitar family

The ukulele is a member of the guitar family of instruments. It generally employs four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings. Some strings may be paired in courses, giving the instrument a total of six or eight strings.

Jake Shimabukuro American ukulele player and composer

Jake Shimabukuro is an American ukulele virtuoso and composer known for his fast and complex finger work. His music combines elements of jazz, blues, funk, rock, bluegrass, classical, folk, and flamenco. Shimabukuro has written numerous original compositions, including the entire soundtracks to two Japanese films, Hula Girls (2007) and the Japanese remake of Sideways (2009).

The album won the 2004 Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Instrumental Album of the Year. It also won the 2004 Hawaii Music Awards for Album of the Year, and Instrumental Hawaiian Album of the Year.

The Hawaii Music Awards were an annual people's-choice awards program established in 1996. The awards were organized and managed by the Music Foundation of Hawaii, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the diversity of music in Hawaii and to honoring and acknowledging the talents and achievements of the state's musicians.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jake Shimabukuro except where noted

  1. "Crosscurrent"
  2. "Toastman's Dilemma"
  3. "Fragile" (Sting)
  4. "I've Been Thinking"
  5. "Wish On My Star"
  6. "Spain" (Chick Corea)
  7. "Mrs. Robinson" (Paul Simon)
  8. "Skyline"
  9. "Orange World"
  10. "When You're Down"
  11. "Beat Of My Heart"
  12. "Hana" (Shoukichi Kina)
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