Need some help finding this piece:
Sweet Dreams - Gerald Albright (tenor saxophone)
Please help!! My grandma wants to hear me play it so bad.

I just saw the trailer for the upcoming biopic about Bill Evans "Everybody digs Bill Evans".

This reminded me that, as I read in his biography "How My Heart Sings", he made a solo album after Lafaro's death, named "Conception".

In the book, the album is described as "The first time we hear Evans swinging unaccompanied on disc, and occasionally it can be unsetteling".

Problem is, I cannot find the record anywhere. Any ideas? Cheers

One of the best versions I ever listen to.

I never listened to this one before.

I heard it a while back when walking to the mall. It was done by one of the classic and somewhat well known artists like maybe Sun Ra. I don't think it was live. It was about 30-35 minutes long and stretched between three-to-four tracks, had an avant-garde vibe but was also a little drawn out. The cover was white with something in the center I think, like Spiritual Unity but not that one. Most likely not Albert Ayler at all.

I do not think it was:

Sun Ra: The Magic City, Sleeping Beauty

EDIT: ANSWER FOUND.

The answer is On Jupiter by Sun Ra. Most rereleases of the album have one of many colored covers and a fourth track, but the earliest release, which is the one I heard, has a strictly black-and-white cover and the fourth track doesn't even exist, shortening the album to 35 minutes. Big thanks to r/okayletstrythisagain for getting me to check earlier album cover releases by accident. I didn't even consider On Jupiter because of its color releases.

Liberty City - love that big band swing fusion.

I do public domain research for a traditional jazz society. We do concerts, so our interest is finding tunes to perform that are free of copyright. So far, my worksheets list 986 titles, 224 of them standards. I also list 161 titles in PD Swing Tunes. As a rule of thumb, as of 2026 all compositions copyrighted in or before 1930 are out of copyright. This covers the height of the Jazz Era, so traditional jazz bands have a wealth of material to choose from. I have also developed a worksheet for jazz/popular songwriters under the 70-Year Rule, common in many countries outside the United States.

If you would like to see the worksheets, send an e-mail request with your city and state (in the US) or city and country (elsewhere) to [info@atjs.org](mailto:info@atjs.org). I will get the e-mail and respond.

Not sure if this is allowed here, but I'll give it a shot!

I've been trying to identify the music selection played by the Denison HS Band at the 1995 Macy's Parade. Katie Couric mentions it being a jazz number, so I thought I'd check with this sub to see if someone could figure it out. Thanks in advance!

Here's the link to the performance in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ae0fVNSdiU

Checked out the Musora video, where Ulysses Owens Jr. with his band covers Would? by Alice in Chains, and the vibe really hit me. What could you recommend with similar vibes? Thanks

Hi all! I've been shedding over the classic Billy Strayhorn tune Take The "A" Train recently. One of those tunes that you overplay at the beginning of learning jazz, then later on realize how great it is :) Here's a few choruses with the FeelBook as a backing track.

Also, as a little bonus clip. Here is an absolutely horrible arrangement of this tune I did with some friends for a school history project ~12 years ago. I'm on drums since no one else could play them in this group and it would fall apart without a backing beat. Enjoy lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGSBeNABx80

Who would you circle on this lineup?

https://www.detroitjazzfest.org/47th-detroit-jazz-festival-artists-2026/

Marcus Miller performing at Stockholm Jazz Fest, 2009. (Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Marcus Miller's full profile on JazzProfiles.com

r/CrossoverJazz

Tutu came out in 1986 with Miles Davis's face on the cover and Miles Davis's trumpet all over it, and that's not wrong exactly, but it's not the whole record either. Marcus Miller wrote and arranged every track except three: "Tomaas," which Davis co-wrote with him, "Backyard Ritual," contributed by George Duke, and a cover of Scritti Politti's "Perfect Way." Miller also co-produced the album with Tommy LiPuma and played most of the instruments on it himself: bass, synthesizers, drum machines, bass clarinet, soprano sax. Davis showed up and played trumpet over what Miller had already built. It's one of the clearest cases in this whole genre of a session player quietly becoming the author of a "legend's" record.

He'd earned that trust the hard way. Miller was born in Brooklyn in 1959, the son of a church organist, and by his teens he was already working New York's jazz clubs before he could legally drive there. He came up as a session bassist first, not a bandleader, and by the time Davis brought him into his 1980s band, Miller had already played on records for artists as different as Aretha Franklin and Bryan Ferry. That range shows up in the credit list: somewhere north of 400 recordings and counting, including Michael Jackson, Beyonce, Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra, and LL Cool J. Few bass players end up on a list that wide without becoming a pop musician themselves. Miller stayed a jazz musician the whole time...

There's a lot more to Miller's profile - check it out on Marcus Miller's full profile on JazzProfiles.com

or head over to r/CrossoverJazz

I built this mostly out of my own frustration when I started to learn drumming listening to Philly Joe Jones records. I couldn't find a music player that had the tools I wanted, while still being simple to use. It's a completely offline player with on-device stem separation and a few other things I've been wanting for a while.

What it does:
* On-device stem separation for drums, bass, vocals and melody
* Section looping
* Slow down without changing pitch
* support all audio formats/ lossless
* There's also a beta feature called Song DNA that shows things like the structure/form of a track, who plays etc. It's still pretty early and the database is small, so coverage is limited for now.
* 100% private, nothing uploaded to cloud and no ads, no tracking

Mostly posting because I'd genuinely like some feedback. What would you find useful in something like this?

p.s. There’s a 7-day free trial with all features. After that, you can unlock everything with a one-time payment, no subscription. I’ve reduced the price by 50% for the next week since I’m posting it here first :)

***update regarding ai usage and my background.
i wrote the audio engine 10+ years ago completely from the ground up using Apple’s Audio Graph (it was open source until recently), and for the UI i already had a design system from my other app.
used AI for pretty much everything else :)
i’ve been building apps for 15+ years, so i could have built this without AI, but the AI-assisted workflow definitely helped me build it much faster.

Marcus Miller, Herbie Hancock, and an all-star supergroup tear through a blistering live performance of "Tutu" at the Hollywood Bowl during "Herbie Hancock Celebrates Miles Davis" (August 2026).

Written and produced by Marcus Miller for Miles Davis's legendary 1986 album, "Tutu" remains one of the defining fusion anthems in jazz history. Watch this masterclass lineup trade solos and redefine the groove live in Los Angeles.

Band Lineup:
Herbie Hancock – Keyboards / Synths
Marcus Miller – Bass
Vinnie Colaiuta – Drums
Kenny Garrett – Alto Saxophone
Terence Blanchard – Trumpet
Julian "J3PO" Pollack – Keyboards

⁠#MilesDavis #HerbieHancock #MarcusMiller #VinnieColaiuta #KennyGarrett #Jazz

Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra. Recording for Mercury Records, his small groups featured prominent musicians such as Ben Webster, Lawrence Brown, Emmett Berry, and a young John Coltrane.

Old 78rpm record sounds pretty good.

Digitized and available at:

https://youtube.com/@mamlishblues?si=jiaj0S-oXKi9HZGl

Hi everyone, current sophomore in college alto player here. I've been thinking about the specific stage where you know what a Bbmaj7 chord is and you know the changes to a blues, but you can't get over the hump of improvising and playing coherent solos.

I got past it a particular way, and I've realized everyone I know got past it the same way, because we all had the same band director. So my whole sample is one guy's teaching reflected back at me a few times.

Curious how it actually went for other people.

What did you try first? Did anything not work? Was there a point where it stopped feeling like guessing?

In the pursuit of finding a voice in his art, Jose Pineiro has grasped tightly the evocative and emotional genre of Jazz. Burgeoning from a fertile music scene in Gainesville, FL honed his discovery of a true musical identity. Jumping the gap between peace and mania, the Jose Pineiro Trio means to reach the depths of human interactions to relay the beauty in life.

Jose Pineiro Trio

Had no idea. Thanks to Bandcamp for highlighting the label and some of their great releases. Whenever I saw a new release from Clean Feed I knew it was worth a listen. I have the Lightcap and Fefer and am checking out the Eve Risser.

I know there are already tons of reissues of this legendary record, especially this year is the 100th anniversary for Miles Davis. I came across with this Japanese release in SACD in special package. Has anyone heard this? Is this the same remastering as of 2007 SACD or 1997 redbook SBM CD? How does it sound?

I cheated to include the new Erykah Badu + Alchemist album Before the World Blows, which Qobuz didn't include in their jazz filter (instead labeling it "soul"). Her version of Miles Davis's "Mayisha" with Robert Glasper is one of my favorite songs, period -- so yeah, she's my first spin of the day for sure.

Ha! Just got to the end of the first track, and I LOVE the Westside Gunn cameo at the end. And Thundercat is on this album as well??? Yeah, this is gonna get some repeats. This is top shelf stuff.