Yep, I have spent many an open mic night placing bets with my drunken friends on whether the next song would be "Country Roads," "Hurt," or, alas, "Wagon Wheel."
That said, I miss those nights. And every once in a while you'd get an unexpected gem. I once heard a 14-year-old kid play an exquisite fingerstyle version of "Desafinado" and my heart grew three sizes.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
Flabbergasted unperson doesn’t like Lee Konitz. I have some calzino-like thoughts going through my head for that one.
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
I remember a 20something student wanted to learn "Don't Dream It's Over" so I pulled up the Crowded House video and started demonstrating the sus chords in the intro. She stopped me and said she preferred the 'other version', which, apparently, consists of strumming open-position triads with the campfire rhythm.
― Inside there's a box and that box has another box within (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
(It's the version she was familiar with from open mics.)
― Inside there's a box and that box has another box within (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
Why do u hate fun, sund4r?
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
The Bad Plus version of Lithium is also fantastic.
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
the funny thing is whenever I see this thread title I think of the beginning of “pharoah’s dance”
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
I just hate that the bad plus or whoever it was chose “flim” as the afx song to cover because that song sucks and he has way more songs with more “jazzy” chords to play with
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
So many wild opinions in this thread!
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
A whole lot of pop music now does not really have that much harmonic information to really use it for something to improvise over. Some stuff is just a 4 bar beat loop, a sustained pad sound (maybe not even a chord) and then multi tracked vocal melody and a sample sound of some sort. Chord progression...eh, maybe kinda. Bassline...sometimes not even used. Vocal melody...lots are pretty childrens song like, which is often catchy, but not exactly some great leaps in intervals and the music juice that jazz musicians like, which is often a bit more obscure than the usual listener (at least now).
― earlnash, Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
There have been so many jazz recordings of "Black Hole Sun," and I know I've seen several jazz groups perform it live, that it seems as if it has become a "contemporary" jazz standard. I wonder what it is about that song that draws the attention of jazzers.
I didn't know that but going over it rn, it makes sense. The harmony and melody are filled with modal mixture, with a lot of bIII and bVI, and both major and minor versions of the 3rd and 7th scale degrees in the melody, and that weird bII at the ends of cadences in the verse, while the chorus ends with a good proper V chord. The melody is also syncopated and lends itself well to jazz rhythm.
― Inside there's a box and that box has another box within (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
no one ever said jazz has to have constant cymbals - and have I not been constant?
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 22 January 2024 14:24 (two months ago) link
If a steady yet subtly syncopated ride cymbal (with a good balance of ping and wash) is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:58 (two months ago) link
Jazz ride cymbal is one of the most satisfying of all sounds, imo
― jmm, Monday, 22 January 2024 16:09 (two months ago) link
Saw some interesting social media post yesterday in my feed about Stewart Copeland discussing the Jazz influence on Charlie Watts and how he could perceive it in a general sense even if Charlie never ever did the cymbal tapping thing.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 January 2024 16:43 (two months ago) link
now yarn mallets on a cybal bringin a creshendo is a thing to be cherished - like in THE OCEAN by Lou Reed
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 22 January 2024 21:28 (two months ago) link
Lol
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 January 2024 22:54 (two months ago) link