what should a current school jazz band play?

tripledoubletripledouble 7,636 Posts
edited January 2007 in Strut Central
my highschool formed a very lowkey jazz band. the science teacher is running it.the school, criminally, has no music teacher or music program. some of my young bols are in the band and i told them id lace them with some cds of heat before the teacher has them learning Hotel California.REally, whatever they play is cool with me. I dont want to meddle, but maybe open their ears to some classic shit. Any recomendations?chameleonknuckleheadscorpiowhats other shit they should definitely know/hear/get exposed to?
«1

  Comments


  • funky versions of southern rap hits.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Rise - Herb Alpert.

  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    funky versions of southern rock[/b] hits.

  • funky versions of southern rap-rock[/b] hits.

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    funky versions of southern rap hits.

    Yep...Rubberband Man, It's Goin' Down, and Swang are among many recent high school marching band favorites around these parts.

  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    Rise - Herb Alpert.

    very nice.

    My high school jazz band did some Emerson,Lake and Palmer.

    Nothing like the original (of course) but it still sounded dope!

  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    Theme to Shaft and Aquarius seem popular.
    T*ny, do you mean easy to play funky standards? Or shit that would/should be relatively easy to find sheet music for that would be good to play?

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    My high school jazz band did some Emerson,Lake and Palmer.




  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    oh shiiiiat.






    hahahahaha!

  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    That one chick in the pic has a pink scrunchie around her ankle...


    thats on some shit...


    wait is that a chick??



  • sabadabadasabadabada 5,966 Posts
    That one chick in the pic has a gut ...


    thats on some shit...

  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    HAHAHAHA...maybe shes preg...kids these days.

  • sabadabadasabadabada 5,966 Posts
    HAHAHAHA...maybe shes preg...kids these days.

    but i only fucked her once?

  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    HAHAHAHA...maybe shes preg...kids these days.



    you sure thats a chick?
    Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
    but i only fucked her once?

  • sabadabadasabadabada 5,966 Posts

  • DJCireDJCire 729 Posts
    I remember at a high school football game, the visiting team's band played:

    Tom Scott's "TODAY"

    10 years ago - my jaw was on the floor...





    Side story: I played friend's reception a year ago. They had a band and I DJ'd between sets. The band was about to come back on and the last song I played was Next Episode by Dr. Dre. The cool thing was the band started playing and continued the song as it ended, then going into their set... Kinda cool...

    Other than that, only thing I can think of is maybe Nautilus?

  • Theme to Shaft and Aquarius seem popular.
    T*ny, do you mean easy to play funky standards? Or shit that would/should be relatively easy to find sheet music for that would be good to play?

    i guess easy to play stuff would be important. we have no "jazz program" to speak of, so the chance that the crew can be getting highly intricate is unlikely. "Rise" is a good suggestion. but i dont think there is a horn section. sheet music would be a plus...i'll ask them how they usually learn songs.

    i was even thinking of just compiling a cdr for them with heavy heavy shit on it...s.o.u.l. burning spear for example. but it would be great to feed them things that they might already know from their folks...grover washington, herb albert "rise", light my fire (lonnie smith version for drums,brian auger for keyboard,bassey for guitar!)



    man, i dont know, i just want to give them something to sink there teeth into. if not, the science teacher is going to be getting them to play stiff white boy blues.

  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    soulful strut is easy to play.
    chameleon is perfectttttttt for that type of thing.
    kool and the gang stuff is often straightforward playing.

    Avoid: majority psych tunes, bop, free jazz, classical (it's boring damnit!), prog rock.

  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    I remember at a high school football game, the visiting team's band played:

    Tom Scott's "TODAY"

    10 years ago - my jaw was on the floor...

    Thats a Jefferson Airplane tune

  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    funky versions of southern rap hits.

    Yep...Rubberband Man, It's Goin' Down, and Swang are among many recent high school marching band favorites around these parts.

    At a pep rally at the HS my girl teaches at they did A.S.A.P., and its hard to think of a tune more suited for marching band... I was crazy jealous. I think they did Shoulder Lean too.

    Thats fucked up that your school has no music program whatsoever, tripledouble.

  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    I remember at a high school football game, the visiting team's band played:

    Tom Scott's "TODAY"

    10 years ago - my jaw was on the floor...

    Thats a Jefferson Airplane tune

    Oh yeah? Well if you think about, the Beatles were really just a Bernard Purdie studio project.

  • I remember at a high school football game, the visiting team's band played:

    Tom Scott's "TODAY"

    10 years ago - my jaw was on the floor...

    Thats a Jefferson Airplane tune

    Oh yeah? Well if you think about, the Beatles were really just a Bernard Purdie studio project.

    ... and that Turkish band from 1973 is just playing Bronx B-Boy breaks made for toprocking.

  • DJCireDJCire 729 Posts
    I remember at a high school football game, the visiting team's band played:

    Tom Scott's "TODAY"

    10 years ago - my jaw was on the floor...

    Thats a Jefferson Airplane tune


    Really?

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    I remember at a high school football game, the visiting team's band played:

    Tom Scott's "TODAY"

    10 years ago - my jaw was on the floor...

    Thats a Jefferson Airplane tune


    Really?

    Sampled by Black Sheep, no less.

  • DJCireDJCire 729 Posts
    Easy with the thread hi-jack....


    We all know who done it...


    Newer cuts... hmmm.... What instruments are being incorporated here?

  • In high school we played these two among others...
    Take 5,
    Blue Rondo a la Turk

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    SHAFT IN AFRICA - maybe with a Darkest Light intro?

    PEP RALLY HEAT!

  • DJCireDJCire 729 Posts
    SHAFT IN AFRICA


  • cpeetzcpeetz 2,112 Posts
    The Theme from Nightcourt!
    Dope Bassline!

  • SnagglepusSnagglepus 1,756 Posts
    I've heard a band do an instrumental of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy that sounded very good. A big band jazz arrangement of that would most likely go over well.
Sign In or Register to comment.