I just started jazz band this in highschool. I play the tenor sax, but I'm originally a flute player. My band director says we should download jazz songs to our ipods but I have no idea what to get! Any song ideas and preferably free, but legal, downloading sights that are ipod compatible.
also, how would you put that song on your ipod? I only know how to do it from the itunes store!
thanks sooooooooooooooooooo much! i have to respectfully disagree with the majority of these answers.....from an educational level, learning about jazz is more about the jazz songs that have become 'standards' than the artists who made them standards. (i said from an EDUCATIONAL level) with that in mind, focus on the tunes...not the artists or the albums.
okay.....here's everyone's first jazz tunes. you pick the artist's versions you want.....they've been recorded a million times.
(and i'd go for 'straight-ahead' jazz here.....keep away from bebop for now, even though it's a great art form....you should just work on getting the melodies of straight-ahead in your ear)
1- all the things you are
2- oleo (or any other rhythm changes)
3- my funny valentine (ballad)
4- in a sentimental mood (ballad)
5- straight, no chaser (up-tempo jazz/blues)
6- autumn leaves
7- fly me to the moon
8- mr p.c. (up-tempo minor blues)
9- footprints
10- blue bossa (easy, diatonic latin tune to learn on your horn)
11- so what (in fact, just go buy miles' "kind of blue" album)
okay...that should be enough. it sounds like you have a smart enough teacher. learning jazz is learning jazz songs. period.
have fun!
ps- if you really want specific suggestions of what songs to buy by what artists, pm me in my 360. and yes, you have to buy. if you don't and use something like frostwire/limewire/kazaa, you're stealing. sorry, it's true.
pps- oh....and one more thing, try and get as many vocal versions of tunes as you can. learning the vocal version gets the 'head' of the tune into your ear MUCH faster.
have fun! A warm welcome to jazz.
downloads for free,(like Ipod,but free)
http://www.limewire.com/
You only have to type jazz.....all names will pop up. Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis easy. go to www.limewire.com and download the free version of limewire. In the search button type what ever you want. Go to your library, and drag that song into your itunes folder onto any playlist. It works, I promise! if you have been paying for music, you have been ripped off! A few great tenor sax players, and a song from each:
Coleman Hawkins - Body and Soul
Lester Young - Lester Leaps In
Dexter Gordon - Tangerine
Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Check these guys out on allmusic.com and see what else they've done. Can't help with [legal] free downloads, sorry. thanks for wanting legal sites, and shame on those answers encouraging this young person to break the law! contributing to the deliquency of a minor!!!
try coltrane, sonny rollins, charlie parker, lester young.
all trend-setting sax players.
just drag them to your ipod in itunes. |
