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12-15-2005, 01:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Norway | | | Help: Funk or fusion songs for a six piece band..
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I play in a jazz/funk/fusion band: Bass, drums, keys, guitar, sax and trumpet. None of my atempts at making songs has been accepted so we really need som tunes to play...
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12-15-2005, 02:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | Herbie Hancock, or any of the Headhunters stuff is likely a good place to start.
Sly and the Family Stone, or if you like that 70's stuff, maybe Kool and the Gang or Lakeside for a few popular hits. |
12-15-2005, 02:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Norway | | | Thanks Jueau. We've played Watermelon man but we figured that Chameleon was a bit to long... I'll check out some more Hancock and the other stuff. |
12-15-2005, 02:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | You might check out some Soulive and MMW as well (3 piece bands - but often have horns as well). If you cant find any easily, let me know and Ill hook you up with some stuff. |
12-15-2005, 02:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: New Zealand | | | Jamiroquai?
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12-15-2005, 02:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | hehe, I just sent him a PM with some samples to listen too, Jamiroquai was among them  |
12-15-2005, 03:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: New Orleans, LA | | | OK, you want a challenge? Check out early/middle Brecker Brothers recordings. Michael and Randy Brecker with David Sanborn and Will Lee on bass. Depending on their chops, your horn players will either love you or hate you.
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12-15-2005, 03:55 PM
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12-16-2005, 05:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Dallas, TX | | Scofield stuff from "Blue Matter" and "Loud Jazz"
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Definitely some Brecker Brothers stuff
Bill Evans (sax not piano) has some great tunes.
Weather Report
Steps Ahead
Vital Information
Randy Brecker has some nice solo stuff
Tom Scott
You're going to have to do some arranging for your group though to play any kind of covers. Try taking some doing new arrangements with horns in place of some keyboard parts. It can sound awesome.
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12-19-2005, 10:23 AM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | you gotta do at least one ohio players cover, they bring the funk
these are some great funky jazzy bands
ohio players
average white band
brothers johnson
earth wind and fire
tower of power
the gap band
parliment, funkadelic, anything george clinton
LA Express
Tom Scott
good fusion bands
return to forever
mahavishnu orchestra
the jeff lorber fusion
billy cobham
lenny white
steely dan
stanley clarke
weather report
most of those fusion bands don't have horns but i thought i would tell you about them anyway since they're all really good. But check out the funky jazzy bands listed above, with a lot of practice you could pull of some of those bands up there.
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12-19-2005, 10:31 AM
| | SANCH | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Milwaukee, WI | | | Check out Pat Methany, Weather Report, Cavemen, Karizma, Crusaders, Larry Carlton, Electric Band
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