General Music Chat

That's awesome!

Go for it!

Just hired a female lead singer w/ touring and performing experience. NOW we're getting somewhere!! Knocked out a dozen R&B, jazz and soul tunes. Aretha Franklin, Ricki Lee Jones........GREAT stuff!!

Ricki Lee Jones? oh no, jook.....her tunes are rife w what you refer as "splinky chords" (Maj7's)!!!!!

Four greasy references in a single post!
Gotta be a Bandmix first!

Alright. You got me. I greased an extra one in there.

I find the enthusiasm you all are displaying, somewhat energizing and have started working on several new tunes! This is where Bandmix shines.

I happened to be thinking about John Lee Hooker and his lyrically bizarre song, "Bottle Up and Go." A favorite of mine - shows that any lyrics can work if the singer makes 'em work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLh9DBJcmOg

Then over to the computer to see what I might have to say from that perspective,

Don’t strap your gun on, ‘less you’re going to a gunfight.
Don’t grab your tire iron ‘less you’re fixin’ to change a tire.
Don’t pull no come-on ‘less you’re really digging someone.
Set down that chicken breast if you ain’t gonna take a bite!

Talbot

When I hear squeaky clean stuff, it makes me sick. Kenny G and the smooth jazz bunch is the epitome of this. Everything is PERFECT, every hair in place. No emotion. No inflection. BS.

you know....there have been some really egregious and misleading genre names....hard bop, salsa....and maybe worst of all...."smooth jazz". these are all labels that were invented not by the musicians but by the people peddling product.

"smooth jazz" or as i refer to it...hot tub jazz, is nothing but instrumental pop music that might have a horn in it. sorry, but the fact that it's instrumental and maybe has a sax or trumpet does NOT make it jazz.

as far as "every hair in place"....not a problem for me. Duke Ellington anyone? Oliver Nelson? Miles/Gil Evans' "Birth of The Cool"? Bill Evans? etc.... and we don't even have to get into classical music!

that's not the problem for me w "smooth jazz". for the most part and to my ears it's just dumbed down, watered down vacuous product to sell to the masses.


BTW....my older brother brought home "Hooker and Heat" when i was 14 or 15...and oh, man...we WORE THAT RECORD OUT! i still love that album. as much for the conversating between songs as the music! it's a classic.