Try to help pick a song a competition any suggestions Thanks!
2007-09-08 14:38:20 · 11 answers · asked by sendittojeff 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Jazz
any song can be a jazz song ... it's about being on the back beat, brother
2007-09-08 14:45:38 · answer #1 · answered by Coach E! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicagokatdaddy, have you ever heard of a piano trio?
Anyway, the are a multitude of things that make a songs appear to have a jazz feel. Non standard time signatures such as 5/4 and 7/4. Metric modulation. Advanced Harmony, which I am a strong advocate for, I think is main factor. Popular, well mainstream, music is often reharmonized to give it a "jazz" sound, hence smooth jazz and the reason why its marginally popular. The fact that it might say "this is a jazz song".
.......And then theres the record industry. They pretty much label anything thats not rock, pop, hip pop, gospel, or country ...."jazz".
The question the needs to be answered is: what IS jazz.
2007-09-09 01:57:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Horns. No Horns, No Jazz. Have U ever heard a Jazz song without Horns
2007-09-08 17:19:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
take a contemporary song inject some blues with the melody and u r on the way 2 making that song a jazz song...
2007-09-09 04:49:30 · answer #4 · answered by Michael L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wes Montgomerys version of "A Day In The Life" is awesome. Jacqui Naylor, a young Bay Area jazz singer is known for her jazz-rock mash ups like "Summertime" done to the tune of "Whipping Post" and the like. She is maybe a little more in the Norah Jones vein.
2016-04-03 21:55:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Making use of tensions other than the 3rd, 4th or 5th. Much of the way I'll "jazz up" a chord is to use the 7th, 9th and 13th.
2007-09-08 20:53:24 · answer #6 · answered by Fellow Traveler 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?" by Louis Armstrong. It's easy to learn and a Jazz standard.
2007-09-08 17:02:43 · answer #7 · answered by ta 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good beat
Using notes, riffs, and variations of the common blues scale and maybe some of a major blues scale
2007-09-08 16:40:41 · answer #8 · answered by pcms3535 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good imagination and know how to improvise out of thin air,being a well seasoned musician helps
2007-09-08 14:51:24 · answer #9 · answered by smitrixz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the instruments and the voice...i like Louis Prima "pennies from heaven"
2007-09-08 15:09:30 · answer #10 · answered by =) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋