http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_25mVjKwcc

I know it's jazz but what kind of Jazz is it. I love it. The rival's school's Jazz band played it and I recognized this song as the theme from a cartoon. I think it's brilliant and I want to more music like it!

Who knows. Who cares. It's ridiculously good. haha.

Yeah it's essentially big band jazz stuff. It's very reminiscent of Henry Mancini's work like the Peter Gunn theme. I have a vinyl record of his TV work, and it's all pretty awesome. He was one of the first guys to put jazz elements into TV scoring.

I guess I'll jump in as the first of many resident nerds and tell you that the tune is used as the theme song for the show 'Cowboy Bebop'.

It's called Genre-core™.

That's the Cowboy Bebop theme song...

I don't normally like anime, but Cowboy Bebop was great. If you watch it, get the subtitled version, the english voice actors they used are horrible (ruined the whole show for me).

Yeah it's essentially big band jazz stuff. It's very reminiscent of Henry Mancini's work like the Peter Gunn theme. I have a vinyl record of his TV work, and it's all pretty awesome. He was one of the first guys to put jazz elements into TV scoring.

I guess I'll jump in as the first of many resident nerds and tell you that the tune is used as the theme song for the show 'Cowboy Bebop'.

Thanks, you gave me enough information to find more work like this.

Latin-influenced big band funk-blues.

I think. :P

The band is The Seatbelts. So the genre is Seatbelt music (Music to drive to? :hiding:)

edit: and the rest of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack is equally awesome.

edit: and the rest of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack is equally awesome.

+1

The basslines in every song of the OST are great

Latin-influenced big band funk-blues.

I think. :P

That's almost exactly what I was thinking. I would have added the term "cinematic" to the beginning though.

Yeah typical bg band sundtrack.
You will probably enjoy Lalo Schifrin too.

Yeah. It's pretty much Big Band, but the the soundtracks have quite a few songs that move outside that territory. Yoko Kanno, the composer, has been known to throw in all kinds of stuff into the soundtracks she's written, from orchestral pieces and chants, to top 40s style pop, to mechanical sounds.

Thanks, you gave me enough information to find more work like this.

Holy Freakin' crap; Someone actually responded directly to one of my posts!

Keep your eye out for other modern big band stuff, which would hopefully include the latin stuff the other peeps made reference to.