what should a current school jazz band play?
tripledouble
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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?
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Yep...Rubberband Man, It's Goin' Down, and Swang are among many recent high school marching band favorites around these parts.
very nice.
My high school jazz band did some Emerson,Lake and Palmer.
Nothing like the original (of course) but it still sounded dope!
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?
hahahahaha!
thats on some
wait is that a chick??
but i only fucked her once?
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?
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.
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.
Thats a Jefferson Airplane tune
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.
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.
Really?
Sampled by Black Sheep, no less.
We all know who done it...
Newer cuts... hmmm.... What instruments are being incorporated here?
Take 5,
Blue Rondo a la Turk
PEP RALLY HEAT!
Dope Bassline!