Best songs to play with a pianist (piano player)

WildBill · #1 07-12-2002, 12:30 PM

I was just wondering because one of my good friends is a talented piano player and I want to know some good jam/warm up songs to play with her.

Justin V · #2 07-14-2002, 09:08 AM

Check out some Ben Folds Five. Some good ones to try are:

Underground
Philosophy
Army
Song for the Dumped
Kate
etc. (bassically the more upbeat songs)

Hope that helped.

dancehallclasher · #3 07-14-2002, 12:18 PM

how about billy joel? "only the good die young" has a great walking bass part.

**Bryan R. Tyler** · #4 07-14-2002, 01:17 PM

I agreee completely with the Billy Joel and Ben Folds. Miles Davis' "Blue in Green" off of Kind of Blue is a great one, too.

BigBohn · #5 07-15-2002, 07:12 AM

Some of the Beatles can be do-able.

the-lizard-king · #6 07-15-2002, 06:21 PM

Any Doors stuff is good. Try 'Riders On The Storm'.
Jim

rustyshakelford · #7 07-16-2002, 10:55 AM

Out of the real book, some nice tunes for duets are:

A Child is Born
Someday My Price Will Come
It May as Well Be Spring

A Child is Born is particularly enjoyable to solo over. Also, the chords are easy to play on bass. Assuming you canplay chords and still imply rythm, I think the pianist would love to solo on that.

Bill Frissell and Fred hersch have a nice album of duets called "Songs We Know". This may provide approaches to these tunes.

RS

BIg O · #8 07-16-2002, 11:26 AM

How about some old Van Morrison, the Moondance album...?