Hey all, asking for those with experience but when writing out an arrangement of a tune that has specific added shots or bars for trio, when would be the threshold to not notate it out and instead just rely on a couple rehearsals?

For example, Bill Evans' arrangement of 'Conception' off his debut album: it's got a rubato intro, shots leading into the B, then shots leading from the A out to a solo break, and the shots are played throughout the blowing. Would this be acceptable to just verbally communicate to a trio and rehearse it a few times, or should it be notated out?

Thanks everyone in advance!

Hello r/Jazz! It's time for my annual update on Vinyl Periphery in the dedicated music subs. Originally built in 2022, I just (last night) finished incorporating the last bit of feedback received from last year's update in r/discogs .

If this is your first time hearing about the site, the premise is this: You provide an album and VinylPeriphery sources its credited artists, then returns their combined discographies, sorted by the number of contributors shared with your searched record.

In short, it's a way to navigate albums solely by their credits, a way to discover new music beyond popularity bias, marketing budgets and recommender algorithms.

I built this app after a conversation with the owner of a local record store. Since then, I've received a lot of encouragement from the community. If you are going to comment, I'd love to hear about a new album you found through the tool, or suggestions for my next release sometime in 2027.

My favourite Jazz records I've discovered using VP are:

1. Le Cri Du Caire - Le Cri du Caire
2. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
3. Calabashed - Behold a Black Wave

One of the things I enjoy about trading is that it can become more than just taking turns soloing. Ideally, you’re listening closely enough to pick up something from the player before you — a rhythmic idea, a phrase, a shape, an articulation — and either answer it, develop it, or take the conversation somewhere else.
We were trying to do that here on “Fingers” at the Village Vanguard — Willie Applewhite, me, Robert Edwards, and Max Seigel trading through the trombone section with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.
I’m curious what other musicians hear. Does it sound like we’re actually having a musical conversation and building off one another, or more like four individual solos happening in sequence?
And when you trade with other players, how consciously are you trying to respond to what you just heard?
“Fingers”. VJO Bone section trading

Hi all,

I've realised I have a very soft spot for noir jazz, now i'm not the most clued up when it comes to jazz and the types, so forgive me if im describing it wrong but its the same of slow, yearning sound that's enveloped in dark mystery, sort of like a rainy detective movie in new york or something

Two main examples thart examplify what im talking about;Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Prowler

Deference For Darkness - MARTIN O’DONNELL, and Michael Salvatori 

I'd really appreciate any other suggestions.

I’m new to jazz, so if this is a horrid take for whatever reason - you know how these tastes go - give me grace.

But I love this album. Everything I’m looking for - atmospheric, funky, somewhat melodic, sophisticated, etc. Has quickly risen to the top of my stack.

Based on this could I get more recommendations of albums/artists to look into?

In college, ever since I switched to engineering from jazz piano, I don't get many chances to play with others anymore. It is usually just an iReal Pro loop. What annoys me the most is that when you hit an accent, change the phrasing, or play quieter, the drums and bass just remain static.

I was sitting here thinking: it has been a long time since I was in music, and there has been insane advancement in technology recently. If I could make a program that could read and predict your phrases, then react to them in real time. They go soft when you play soft, punch with your accents, and mimic your phrasing without ruining the tempo. I would genuinely use that in my own room, but I figured I would ask if other people feel the same way.

I decided to start building a mobile tool called Mr. Sideman (iOS and Android). It listens through your device microphone with the lead sheet you give it while you play in real time.

Questions:

1. Does the current standard of backing tracks you use for practice bother you? Why?

2.If an accompaniment app actually reacted to your comping and dynamics, would you find that useful or is a static loop enough?

Even if nobody else uses it, I will probably finish it for myself and open source it. At the end of the day, I am just hoping to have a reliable practice partner at home for fun, and a backup stand-in when a drummer or bassist does not show up to rehearsal.

If anyone wants to test the early build on their instrument, let me know in the comments or shoot me a DM and I will send you the link to try it. Or let me know your opinions!

Experimental jazz with a flair of R&B and hiphop. Other examples are Glug by Society or Rimbaud by Jay-Jay Johnson

Hey all, I got a ticket to see Jeremiah Chiu & Josh Johnson's album release show at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis next Tuesday, Nov. 3. But now I can't go. Anyone want the ticket for face value, $30, OBO? DM me.

Spend election night w/some great electronic jazz.

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄

I thought there was a rule here about low-effort posts.

I got this 'boombox' when I was 11 years old. I think. Maybe earlier. I'm 45 now and this little thing still works perfectly. I love having it by my side since my cd collection keeps growing, and I just love the simple analog feeling of 'putting the disc in and press play' without any internet connection necessary.

I love this tune by Keyon Harrold! I want to learn it on guitar/transcribe but I have trouble hearing the first few chords in the beginning as they go by pretty fast.

At least, could the image be in a comment, so as not to crowd up the page with pictures of Kind Of Blue and eight other albums? Unless your albums are something obscure or specialized, it's not all that enlightening. It seems like some of these are so generic that it's The 9 Albums I Own :)

Maybe a sidebar, or a weekly mega thread would do. Or a brand new My 9 Jazz Albums page! We gotta have room for people to brag about their Spotify stats!

This is someone I first heard when she was 15 in a high school musical in Oregon. Her voice is a gift. She is now in her early 40s and in Canada.

[Miles Davis performing in Helsinki, October 6, 1964, two years before the session. (Photo: Reijo Koskinen / Lehtikuva, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons)]

https://jazzprofiles.com/this-day-in-jazz/

On October 24, 1966, Miles Davis's quintet went into Columbia's 30th Street studio and recorded "Circle," "Orbits," "Dolores" and "Freedom Jazz Dance." The last was Eddie Harris's tune, which Harris had cut a year earlier for Atlantic on The In Sound, with Ron Carter on bass, the same Carter who now sat in Miles's rhythm section. Producer Teo Macero let the tape run, so the full session reel survives: a 23-minute rehearsal on the 2016 box set Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5, against the 7-minute master that reached Miles Smiles. On the reel, Miles complains that the melody is too hard for him, and Macero answers, "Yes you can." He also advised Herbie Hancock to sit on his left hand and play only right-hand lines.

Sources: Miles Smiles, Wikipedia , Miles Smiles (Again): "Bootleg Series: Freedom Jazz Dance" Chronicles Second Great Quintet In The Studio, The Second Disc , The In Sound (Eddie Harris album), Wikipedia) , Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5, Record Collector

Wish she did not drop out of the music scene
She was very popular in Japan

https://youtu.be/DoDQi7OWTp4

https://youtu.be/ulRVFRuq9gA

Check out her other work.. she is on Spotify

Can anyone identify what the first song Steve is playing on this clip? I've heard it so many times but I can never figure out what it is, I've gone to the r/namethatsong and got nothing, thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZz9UFqNPxk

[Cover art for Cal Massey's "Blues to Coltrane" (Candid, released 1987), his only album as a leader. Used as a stand-in because no free-licensed photograph of Massey could be found. Album cover art, copyright holder Candid Records / its successors, all rights reserved — this is not a Creative Commons or public-domain image, and the cover does not depict the event.]

https://jazzprofiles.com/this-day-in-jazz/

Trumpeter and composer Cal Massey died of a heart attack in New York on October 25, 1972, at about 44 (sources differ on whether he was 43 or 44). He left a strange ledger. John Coltrane had recorded Massey's "Bakai" at his first session as a leader, and Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner and Jackie McLean cut his tunes too. His own name appeared on one session only: Blues to Coltrane, taped for Candid on January 13, 1961, with Nat Hentoff supervising. It stayed unreleased until 1987, fifteen years after his death. Massey's politics ran radical; his Black Liberation Movement Suite was played at Black Panther benefit concerts, and the researcher Fred Ho argued that this kept him from major labels. A cousin of the same name, Cal Massey, became a Marvel Comics illustrator and designed monuments at Valley Forge.

Sources: Cal Massey, Wikipedia , Blues to Coltrane, Wikipedia , Cal Massey, Jazz Leadsheets

Lady Bird  -  Melody and Improv Demo with Piano Comping Examples

Hello everybody, first post in this incredible community. I came across this cd and really calmed my nerves, excellent piano and great ambiance from my subwoofer. If you are going though a bit of stress I highly recommend that you listen to it. Very unexpected. Hope you have a great weekend.

The Apollo Records 759 single preserves two compositions by Sir Charles Thompson, a pianist and composer whose work bridged swing and bebop. The musicians include Chatlie Parker and Dexter Gordon and Buck Clayton

Digitized and available at:

https://youtube.com/@mamlishblues?si=OkaYlER5Nr_u1gND