Kid For Today/Amo Bishop medley played by my jazz group

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:25 pm

Some of you have heard my Turquoise cover. That was a past (and beloved) group. I'm in a new city now and have a new group going. We do a medley of Kid For Today and Amo Bishop Roden.

This isn't the best performance of it nor a great recording, but I figure you might enjoy it nonetheless.

*redacted*

bleak. · Post by **bleak.** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:03 pm

really nice work. i'm not the biggest fan of the saxophone, but that seemed absolutely fine to me. keep up the good work

Generalchesty · Post by **Generalchesty** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:26 pm

Well done! For some reason parts really reminded me of the music on Charlie Brown Christmas specials.

Waterbagel · Post by **Waterbagel** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:12 am

Oh, man. There's smooth, and then there's this!

EDIT: Oh, and yeah. I really dig your keys player. An awful lot.

WeHadNormality · Post by **WeHadNormality** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:40 pm

Waterbagel wrote:I really dig your keys player. An awful lot.

Mmmmm, nice

m.oreilly · Post by **m.oreilly** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 4:54 am

loved it! great sax/keys/drums/ensemble playing!

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:49 am

Thanks for the kind words, folks. Hope we can do more in the future. The tunes that work best are the ones that have two or more chords, a memorable non-trivial melody. Strong rhythm is good too. Roygbiv is an obvious choice but it's already been done.

Yellow Records · Post by **Yellow Records** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:14 am

THIS IS FANTASTIC!

I liked and Reposted

paul · Post by **paul** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:36 am

i really enjoyed that - a truly original interpretation!
thanks for sharing.

polarbear · Post by **polarbear** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:24 pm

nice work, man!

krs · Post by **krs** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:23 pm

egbdf wrote:Some of you have heard my Turquoise cover. That was a past (and beloved) group. I'm in a new city now and have a new group going. We do a medley of Kid For Today and Amo Bishop Roden.

This isn't the best performance of it nor a great recording, but I figure you might enjoy it nonetheless.

DISCLAIMER: I've tried and tried again to explain to our saxophone player that "bluesy" sounding shit isn't appropriate for Boards of Canada in any form but he can't seem to get it out of his system even for one song. Personally I find it entirely repugnant to the BoC mood or "vibe". That said--don't get me wrong--I think he's a good player.

Nah man, this is a great arrangement. And don't restrict your horn player, what he did here totally worked. Keep it up.

Snufkin · Post by **Snufkin** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:00 pm

Mate... this really is fucking something special.

Who needs BoC live when we're getting all these awesome cover acts in emergence. Please keep it coming (and let us know if you're ever playing this stuff livestream).

-Snuf

naicob · Post by **naicob** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:28 am

Good stuff. The drumming could have been done in a more creative way. The horn was ok at first but at after he just goes off in a weird way-- I can see what you mean it doesn't fit very well. Granted you guys can try to use his style in a better way, it can work in a really cool way if done right. The bass was really tight-- loved it.

2020k · Post by **2020k** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:25 pm

Personally, if I ever found myself wondering through a jazz bar and this was playing I would throw my entire wallet on stage (I'd probably keep my license and Starbucks gift card, but you can have the rest).

Phenomenal work!

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:26 pm

2020k wrote:Personally, if I ever found myself wondering through a jazz bar and this was playing I would throw my entire wallet on stage (I'd probably keep my license and Starbucks gift card, but you can have the rest).

Phenomenal work!

Thanks. There really is a lot going on in jazz that you would probably like. BoC covers, maybe not so much.

3noneTwo · Post by **3noneTwo** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 3:07 am

krs wrote:Nah man, this is a great arrangement. And don't restrict your horn player, what he did here totally worked. Keep it up.

Totally agree, the guy on sax sounds like he knows what he's doing. No problems with his performance whatsoever.

Love the arrangement, fresh experience for familiar material. That Turquoise Hexagon Sun cover swells up in a really great way too, can't believe I hadn't heard it until now.

Any chance for a download link for Kid For Today/Amo Bishop Roden?

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:48 am

3noneTwo wrote:
krs wrote:Nah man, this is a great arrangement. And don't restrict your horn player, what he did here totally worked. Keep it up.
Totally agree, the guy on sax sounds like he knows what he's doing. No problems with his performance whatsoever.

Any chance for a download link for Kid For Today/Amo Bishop Roden?

Glad it's not bothering anyone. He has a tendency to "bluesify" everything, and it worries me that it will make people associate us with smooth jazz or highly commercialized "jazz" but it seems to not be the case, so that's good. Should now be downloadable from the soundcloud page. Little downward arrow underneath the track.

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 11:13 am

That was *awesome* man. I agree with everyone else, let your sax player strut his stuff haha. Seriously tho, effin excellent, cheers.

WiggZ · Post by **WiggZ** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 11:42 pm

Really nice. I quite like the background noises too, personally I always like recordings of Jazz in noisy rooms.

irv · Post by **irv** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:48 pm

That's excellent mate; don't have much time for jazz to be honest but that's a very professional sound you've got going on and I'd be nodding along if I was there...

____twoism

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