MeFi Music songs tagged with jazz

Cephalopod by lothar

lothar — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:14:49 -0800

How many times have you asked yourself, "Where are all the jazz tunes about squid?"

Take Five by danb

danb — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:40:24 -0800

Another one from my friend Matt and I. Instrumental, two acoustic guitars.

I Do It For Your Love by danb

danb — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:16:06 -0800

A Paul Simon cover from the same session as Bob-omb Battlefield. Instrumental, two acoustic guitars.

Misty by danb

danb — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:03:51 -0800

Solo guitar. One quick and dirty take, recorded with the windows open.

Attack of the Pasta Party Pirates by OverlappingElvis

OverlappingElvis — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:48:28 -0800

An original song by my old band, Selected Letters. Alto Sax, Oboe, Violin, Guitar, Bass, Drums, and a good mix of tight arrangement and improvisation. I miss this band a lot, but it was great while it lasted.

Wave by stubby phillips

stubby phillips — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:00:34 -0800

Lo-fi bossa with apologies to Jobim

When I Fall In Love by StrikeTheViol

StrikeTheViol — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:47:49 -0800

I started singing back when I was darn near tone deaf and had the breath control of someone recovering from a pool accident. I think I've gotten better, so I'd like people who don't know me to have a listen.

piltdown part 7 by sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:42:28 -0800

jazz tune. also, "jazz" tune.

404 by edlundart

edlundart — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:42:15 -0800

And now for something completely different... this is a somewhat experimental instrumental track featuring pulsing soft noise, soft organs and a distorted xylophone, fake sitar, and off-key distant "singing."

Misty by chrismear

chrismear — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:20:02 -0800

Some jazz noodling on that classic standard Misty. My friend Steph on the alto sax, me on the piano.

Breaking the Rules (Rough Cut) by By The Grace of God

By The Grace of God — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:09:04 -0800

Country/jazz. acapella. An open letter to Amy Winehouse. Super Mario Galaxy.

Original Recipe by mikey10101

mikey10101 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:04:22 -0800

This is a recording from Ground Zero in Troy, NY. I played a solo show for about 50ish people and a stuffed pony.

Hopeful Hopeful by tmcw

tmcw — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:26:56 -0800

A big ol' composition kind of song. Just a little bit like "post-rock" I guess. As before but this time with multiple takes, stereo, and fun little stuff scattered all around. It's also my first project using Logic Pro, which seems to rock

workshop by nicolin

nicolin — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:41:36 -0800

Rehearsals : three tunes that we (a big band) were to play on stage in a small jazz festival in Millau, Aveyron, southern France.

could of by es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:38:51 -0800

kinda jazzy, kinda not. this is where my highschool extra curricular activities run into my highschool punk band...recorded alone. fake drums. some mixxing creds go to my lil drummer bro...(family link!)

The Hoarse Whisperer (Parts 1-4) by flod logic

flod logic — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:14:18 -0800

Got together with a friend a while back to jam, and we ended up deciding to try and record something for the first time. Our goal of creating music failed. Thus the project Tverrbjelker was born.

Blackout (John Scofield cover) by edverb

edverb — Mon, 21 May 2007 09:33:33 -0800

Just me and my friends making music in the basement. This is a live studio cover of John Scofield's Blackout.

satin doll by nicolin

nicolin — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:15:54 -0800

Another excerpt of a previous too long post. Tired of playing over improvised and random changes, I brought the Ellington tune to Olivier. I played the rhythm track, he played the melody, then I managed to play a solo. Hope you like it.

"All The Things You Are," solo acoustic guitar by adrian_h

adrian_h — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:24:21 -0800

My favorite jazz standard, done as a solo acoustic guitar piece. Apologies for the audio clipping at 2:02. (For some reason, the MeFi audio preview is playing it in a lower key and slightly slower; I'm not sure how to fix this, so I'll leave it as is.)

real book by nicolin

nicolin — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:10:07 -0800

Hi, This is not what you can call a song : rather a collection of recordings pasted together. As in the Real Book, some standards are included. But this track also includes sounds taken from the real world, like a street scene, or rehearsals. It is a deliberate effort to try to match apparently unrelated recordings, from different sources. The Real Book, paradoxically, features charts for some idealistic land. Here, I wanted to use sounds both from the inside (music) and from the outside (raw field recordings) to see how ironically they are related and to provide some contrast. What you're about to hear : a saxophone playing Don Quichotte, a late night Dulcinea, two versions of a standard, and guitar comments.

Caravan (rehearsal) by miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:04:09 -0800

The Smoke Alarm Sessions, cont'd. I've been learning Caravan. I love the way Ellington did it a lot. Nowadays so many people play it very straight ahead, & I think that gets boring. So we experimented. At first Barry tried to put a funk beat behind it, but I'm not sure about it. On the second chorus I was thinking that since I've been to Egypt I should use that as inspiration to experiment with different melodies. I think in the future I'll probably take that a lot further, I kind of liked the feel. So, we'll see.

If I Had You by miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:16:26 -0800

4/10/07 rehearsal recording in LA. Trying out some new repertoire... well, new for me. This adorably sweet little song was written in 1928. I decided not to put any kind of modern spin on it, but to just sing it slow and straight. (Guitar by the always adorable Barry Zweig.)

Don't Go To Strangers (piano/vocal rehearsal) by miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:14:01 -0800

Another 2006 rehearsal recording... cleaned up but obviously very rough still. Don't Go To Strangers was written in 1954 by Arthur Kent and David Mann, with gorgeous lyrics by Redd "Frim Fram Sauce" Evans. Many people have covered it, but Etta James' version is the one that infatuated me to give it a go myself. Gorgeous piano work provided by the perpetually kickass Tamir Hendelman

After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It (piano/vocal) by miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:45:29 -0800

Another 2006 CD rehearsal. I love timeless lyrics... and this 1920 tune by Irving Berlin captures human nature perfectly. It was repopularized by an arm-swinging Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The Nat King Cole Trio did it better though.
Piano fabulousness by the astoundingly talented (and now Grammy Nominated!) Tamir Hendelman

Love Me or Leave Me (bass/vocal) by miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:24:38 -0800

Ok, so here's my spin on another old song. This Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn composition was first featured in Florenz Zeigfield's 1928 Broadway musical Whoopee, starring Eddie Cantor & Ruth Etting, who took the song to #2 on the charts. In 1955, Doris Day starred in a biographical movie about Etting called "Love Me or Leave Me" & her updated rendition became a giant hit. Flash forward to 1967... Nina Simone turned this hokey old Ziegfeld tune into a completely reworked masterpiece of piano & voice (download link is at bottom). My own version (heard best live, I think) is definitely inspired by Nina's, but it could never compare to hers -- I just do my own thing & try to make it my own a bit. It's a fun song to do... audiences seem to love it. Incredible basswork once again provided by bass God Chris Conner.