Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Won't work with the instrument line up. Which is ...unconventional. :mad:

I think the NP should play guess the instrument line up if you're going to chuck things like that at us. In terms of random, I give you...

* Banjo
* Ocarina
* Moog synth.
* Bongos
* Double Bass

Am I close?

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I think the NP should play guess the instrument line up if you're going to chuck things like that at us. In terms of random, I give you...

* Banjo
* Ocarina
* Moog synth.
* Bongos
* Double Bass

Am I close?

Not yet.

We could take the double bass....though, for variety. It would increase versatility. It had a big service last year and so deserves an outing. I might suggest that. Then you get to be close.

Dh is threatening to make me shake a maracas so dire are things looking. The bass would absolve that reaponsibilty (and the embarrassment) no amps, so have said I might sing a bit as no one will here where the stupid goitre and my larynx argue

vivatifosi

Older jazz standards that might fit the bill....

Misty
All of Me
When I fall in love
What a wonderful world
Fly me to the moon
Take Five
Lullaby of Birdland

That's it, I'm out of ideas now..

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Nice people, can I ask a favour?

Its a bit random but I am suffering inspiration failure today. It helps that there are few jazz aficionados here for this one and a mixed age group.

I wonder of you could let me know two things...any particular jazz standard you might recognise and know two or three words to, or the name of, and also what you think might be a favourite song (of any genre) in a demographic of say, fifty or sixty year olds plus.....

It doesn't matter that the two seem disparate. It makes sense to what I am doing ATM.


Edit, one of your absolute favourite any genre tunes might help too......I have told dh I will help transcribe, and as I find transcribing music even harder than typing written language it's gonna take me ages.

Something from the Cole Porter Songbook as sung by Ella Fitzgerald? There are some huge classics on there: Too Darn Hot, I Got You Under My Skin, I Love Paris, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye...and many, many more (as the old K-Tel ads used to say). Pretty much anything off the albums would do it.

Them there's the obvious bee bop etc: Charlie Parker/Miles Davis/John Coltraine. Ole by Coltraine is a real favourite of mine, A Few of my Favourite Things is a good one and is a bit more palitable to the non-jazz lovers.

The Nina Simone version of "I Wish I Knew (How it Would Feel to be Free)" is probably the most famous song you don't know the name of!

Gil Scott Heron is brilliant although perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about jazz. The Bottle is probably his great classic, Lady Day and John Coltraine is perhaps my favourite. Whitey on the Moon is probably a bit political for most social gatherings ("I can't pay my doctor's bill with Whitey on the moon").

Anyway, there's some food for thought.

Generali

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lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Something from the Cole Porter Songbook as sung by Ella Fitzgerald? There are some huge classics on there: Too Darn Hot, I Got You Under My Skin, I Love Paris, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye...and many, many more (as the old K-Tel ads used to say). Pretty much anything off the albums would do it.

Them there's the obvious bee bop etc: Charlie Parker/Miles Davis/John Coltraine. Ole by Coltraine is a real favourite of mine, A Few of my Favourite Things is a good one and is a bit more palitable to the non-jazz lovers.

The Nina Simone version of "I Wish I Knew (How it Would Feel to be Free)" is probably the most famous song you don't know the name of!

Gil Scott Heron is brilliant although perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about jazz. The Bottle is probably his great classic, Lady Day and John Coltraine is perhaps my favourite. Whitey on the Moon is probably a bit political for most social gatherings ("I can't pay my doctor's bill with Whitey on the moon").

Anyway, there's some food for thought.

Thank you. Dh is at heart of hearts a bebop/hard bob jazz man. It's never hard to convince him that it has a place on a set list.

Too darn hot...yeah, everyone has heard that ( same reason some mentioned, inc favourite things are already long listed ).



Not doing badly now. I need to have set lists in place to check with other bands by end of week. But I think most of the choices we are very, very safe on for clashing as things stand.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Thank you. Dh is at heart of hearts a bebop/hard bob jazz man. It's never hard to convince him that it has a place on a set list.

Too darn hot...yeah, everyone has heard that ( same reason some mentioned, inc favourite things are already long listed ).



Not doing badly now. I need to have set lists in place to check with other bands by end of week. But I think most of the choices we are very, very safe on for clashing as things stand.

Pretty much every band should be able to rattle off Cole Porter. If they've got a singer as good as Ella I'd be impressed!

michaels

I don't know nuffink about Jazz however I suspect this may fit the bill, I especially love listening to the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN-FQYzS1cc

Ukulele?

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Pretty much every band should be able to rattle off Cole Porter. If they've got a singer as good as Ella I'd be impressed!

It's all very trad here. Rattle off anything is less likely than hammer it out, you know what I mean?


I'm no Ella.:o I didn't used to be half bad though. . Dh heard me before he met me. ( we worked 'together' on a track but recorded separately for a third party ). I recorded first and dh said ' I need to meet her' and the third party arranged it. When dh saw me the first time he told the other person he was going to marry me....he'd heard me, he'd seen me.....he was sold.:o.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I don't know nuffink about Jazz however I suspect this may fit the bill, I especially love listening to the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN-FQYzS1cc

Ukulele?

Dh and another musician play an amazingly brilliant crazy in love. .