I've played classical piano for years, but I'm just starting out with jazz and blues. A friends is learning bass guitar from scratch. Can anyone recommend some easy riffs or chord progressions we could play together?
posted by morninj
on Feb 5, 2013 -
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I just heard a recognizable piece of music at a Christmas event, but can't name it.
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posted by dhartung
on Dec 25, 2012 -
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I would like to explore the world of (classic) big band swing music. What LPs, 45s, or artists would you recommend for a newb?
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posted by missed
on Dec 9, 2012 -
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What do the cool dead kids listen to? I'm looking for vintage spooky pop with a particular flavor: that sparse, echo-y
Day-O/
Ghost Town mournful message from beyond-the-grave sound. With a beat.
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posted by roger ackroyd
on Oct 16, 2012 -
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What are some songs or clips from songs that slowly build up by adding instruments one at a time and/or by featuring one instrument at a time?
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posted by ch3cooh
on Sep 15, 2012 -
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For me Miles Davis Bitch's Brew is the epitome of good driving fusion /jazz / rock.
Help me push the envelope. I remember some Wayne Shorter, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Weather Report, John McLaughlin.
I need more of this good music in my life.
posted by adamvasco
on Jul 18, 2012 -
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I'd like to find more music like the song "What You Feel" from the episode "Once More, With Feeling" from
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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posted by johnofjack
on May 21, 2012 -
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What are your favorite current recordings with good dynamic range, preferably jazz and blues?
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posted by thrasher
on Apr 25, 2012 -
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What was the music playing in the brothel scene in the latest Mad Men episode (Season 5 Episode 5 - 30 Signals)?
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posted by kookywon
on Apr 16, 2012 -
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Looking for Jazz with lots of vibraphone and trombone, together on one album.
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posted by querty
on Apr 12, 2012 -
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The "Pink Panther" theme and the "Peter Gunn" theme are both jazz pieces created by Henry Mancini in the 1960's. But musically, how are they similar? If I add Lalo Schifrin's "Mission Impossible" theme ... is this a particular flavor or genre of jazz? If I like these as music, what other pieces (that are not necessarily theme songs) would I like?
posted by musofire
on Feb 2, 2012 -
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Hello MeFi. I'm curious as to the correlation between software development Design Patterns for and Jazz Standards.
Usual loot from Google: Some dude who thought of it first (and used it as a nice allegoric explanation in
Programmers Stackexchange and a somewhat geeky ironic coding-related mention ("
Jazz supports interaction through event listeners").
These are all nice examples of the basic similarity between the two, I'm looking for more, though.
Are you aware of any materials that somehow approach this idea?
posted by lipsum
on Jan 25, 2012 -
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I am a classically trained bassist that wants to learn jazz and get over my fear of improvisation. How can I practice in my spare time to further this goal?
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posted by masters2010
on Jan 20, 2012 -
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Any idea how to acquire the source music from the new Scorsese film
Hugo? The stuff the band is playing in the cafe and party scenes, in other words?
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posted by Shotgun Shakespeare
on Dec 30, 2011 -
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Help me find video clips of female jazz pianists with stage presence! I'm looking for moments where the camera captures the stage presence of jazz ladies at the piano, their entrance, how they carry themselves, their hands on the keys, their interaction with their band-members, their final bow, everything. Thank you.
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posted by ruelle
on Dec 25, 2011 -
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Somewhere in the Ken Burns documentary Jazz, a musician who played with John Coltrane remembers a story about Coltrane defending one of his musicians with violence in some way, and then ends the story with the punchline: "You have to be willing to Die for a motherfucker." Who was that speaking?
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posted by Potomac Avenue
on Dec 1, 2011 -
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Hey, did you ever see The Conversation? Remember how the soundtrack was mostly one dude on a piano? Can you recommend more music to me like that, where it's really engaging and moody like The Conversation soundtrack, but it's also just one guy?
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posted by malapropist
on Nov 5, 2011 -
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Flying Burrito Brothers : The Eagles as Brooks and Dunn : The Louvin Brothers as John Coltrane : ??
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posted by Ollie
on Oct 15, 2011 -
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Traditional melodies and scales from various world musics played and riffed on with mostly jazz instrumentation and sensibilities. Where can I find more?
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posted by Infernarl
on Sep 14, 2011 -
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I want to learn more about female jazz singers, but I like melancholy, pared-down music better than high-energy big band music. Can you recommend some songs to me?
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posted by colfax
on Sep 5, 2011 -
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What is this Jazz song, or artist, from the TV show Louie? I was watching Louie the other day, and the song during the credits is wonderful. Season 2: Episode 3: "Moving".
Here's the clip that I recorded:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/f87738ad-8d2a-4ee8-bca5-2093fcf5c6b8/Louie-Jazz
You can also just hear it during the credits of that episode, if you go to Hulu.
My sincerest apologies if there is a less sketchy way to get you guys the audio!
Thanks,
/bc
posted by quickasfoxes
on Aug 20, 2011 -
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I don't know much about music and I don't have a large music vocabulary - once you get past "bassline" I am reduced to saying things like "It was very squeaky yet melodic somehow, you know?" I would like some sources for critical writing about more complicated modern music.
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posted by Frowner
on Jul 21, 2011 -
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Cowboy Bebop's [amazing] soundtrack was heavily inspired by American music. What should I be listening to?
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posted by Senza Volto
on Apr 12, 2011 -
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Please help me identify this crime jazz song (with great trombones!) from a sample of me whistling it.
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posted by circular
on Dec 21, 2010 -
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If I were to compile a small collection of live performance Jazz DVD's (say, 5-7ish), what *needs* to be in that collection? Specifically if my interests in jazz run less in the orchestra area and more in the trio-octet range?
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posted by Ufez Jones
on Oct 29, 2010 -
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon Jazz: I would like to live in the mood provided by
this cover song, please recommend similars (preferably stuff from the past 20 years, vocals optional, absolutely no Diana Krall pls, thx).
posted by querty
on Sep 19, 2010 -
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Are there any machine readable music "fake books" available, free or for sale?
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posted by waxboy
on Aug 12, 2010 -
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Trying to find a hip hop/acid jazz song that I heard on Qatar radio recently. It had rap and some Robbie Williams vocals. It may have the lyrics "chill out". That's all I have to go by.
posted by pinkkitty
on Aug 3, 2010 -
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I need recommendations for a mid-length piece of instrumental music which varies a lot in expressive emotional content to be used in a neural imaging experiment. Please provide links to listenable extracts (i.e. amazon mp3 clips or you tube).
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posted by leibniz
on Jun 4, 2010 -
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Suggest some 60s-70s funk-soul for a fan of Roy Ayers. Instrumental preferred but not necessary.
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posted by rubadub
on May 4, 2010 -
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