The Music Thread

p5mmr9 said:
Anyway - who is it here that is hoping for new Car Seat Headrest? New album soon - new song is great. Looks like he is getting back into long form songwriting.

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I was one, and yes sounds great. Looking forward to it. I liked MADLO a lot but that guy can write an epic.
 
Centerpiece said:
Two of my favourites mashed together Take Five Brubeck in Black and white video with Golden Brown by The Stranglers over-laid on sound track. Both tunes have interesting time signatures 5/4 and 6/8 with one measure of 7/8 thrown in on the B part


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Really nice. My dad loved Brubek and I can still hear him say you needed to follow the beat to appreciate Take 5.
 
Centerpiece said:
Two of my favourites mashed together Take Five Brubeck in Black and white video with Golden Brown by The Stranglers over-laid on sound track. Both tunes have interesting time signatures 5/4 and 6/8 with one measure of 7/8 thrown in on the B part


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The very first jazz album I bought as a 16 yo kid was "Time Out" I wore that record out
and the album cover is the coolest:cool:

I had the privilege of seeing Brubek and his sons play at Memorial Hall many years ago.
 
heelinhell said:
The very first jazz album I bought as a 16 yo kid was "Time Out" I wore that record out
and the album cover is the coolest:cool:

I had the privilege of seeing Brubek and his sons play at Memorial Hall many years ago.
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Yes indeed! Classic album that fits right in with Kind of Blue and the other greats. I may have seen that same concert tour in Cullowhee back in 1979-ish? Somewhere along in there. The tune on the video is from The Stranglers 1981 - Golden Brown.
 
Here's a song I wrote to honor the late Congressman John Lewis. The lyrics are mostly inspired by the eulogy President Obama gave for him at Ebenezer Baptist Church in 2020, and then a couple biographies I read about him




Lyrics:
Got a southbound Greyhound out of Nashville
With my good friend Bernard Lafayette
This ride could be a little bit dangerous
How much are you willing to bet?

The bus driver asked us to move to the back
I said “No thank you, sir, I’m gonna stay where I am”
He stormed off the bus at the station in Huntsville
We were afraid he might come back with the Klan

Push ‘em all in John, Push ‘em all in
Push your 20 years to the center of the table
We're all brothers John, but I know you know
That didn't stop brother Cain from killing brother Abel

A man on the bus said where you going to boy?
I said Sir, I’m going back home to Troy
I’m going to celebrate Christmas with my family
And my savior who treats all races equally

Make your mama’s heart break
Make your papa’s head shake
You ain’t preaching to chickens this time, John
You're gonna end up with your brains
Splattered all up and down the freedom line

Push em all in John, push everything all in
Push your heart and soul to the center of the table
We’re all brothers John but I know you know
That didn’t stop brother Cain from killing brother Abel

You pushed ‘em all in, John, didn’t you push ‘em all in
You bet everything on love and freedom
You pushed it all in, John, didn’t you push it all in
Praying “Thy will be done, Thy kingdom come”
 
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I loved this song the first time I heard it back in late 1968 or early 1969, but since 1990 I can't listen to it without thinking about the scene in Goodfellas where two guys beat and kill a man while Atlantis plays in the background. Great job, Martin Scorsese.

 
Centerpiece said:
Yes indeed! Classic album that fits right in with Kind of Blue and the other greats. I may have seen that same concert tour in Cullowhee back in 1979-ish? Somewhere along in there. The tune on the video is from The Stranglers 1981 - Golden Brown.
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Indeed

My Mount Rushmore of Jazz albums :

Kind of Blue
Time Out
Monk's Dream
Blue Train ( Coltrane ) edging out A Love Supreme
 
heelinhell said:
Indeed

My Mount Rushmore of Jazz albums :

Kind of Blue
Time Out
Monk's Dream
Blue Train ( Coltrane ) edging out A Love Supreme
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Indeed is right!
I'd add Horace Silver's Song For My Father and Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas... And maybe The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
 
Don't know enough to place him techically but he composed a significent number of differing musical scores that are part of the songbook. From Breakfast at Tiffany's to this goodie.


 
I just noticed yesterday that this was the background music for a Johnsonville sausage ad. Always liked this album.


 
finesse said:
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Those Latin Rhythms get me too. I've tried to study them and emulate them, but they're all so nuanced and difficult for someone not born and raised with them, to get them in their system. It's either in your blood, or you are raised with it. The rhythms are different but similar all at the same time. It's all about the clave - I get that... I've been to Mexico and both Central and South America (as well as Spain) and I've asked folks to help me out. I've wood-shedded with experienced drummers and percussionists. Tryint to learn the differences between all of the Latin Rhythms and how to mimic them on guitar. Bossa Nova, Samba, Salsa, Merengue, Beguine, Cumbia, Tango, Mambo, Coro,Rumba, ChaCha... it's an almost endless list.

As far as what I try to play - I've attempted to perfect a basic Bossa Nova guitar rhythm based off of what I hear on Antonio Carlos Jobim albums and then speed it up or slow it down to try to "fake" any others. The Beguine rhythm is also one I've sort of gotten down. Then there's the Oye Como Va/Evil Ways/Black Magic Woman Latin Rock style on guitar I've studied on the Santana and Tito Puente albums. The Tango also one I can fake.
 
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