Hi Alan,

Thanks very much for those samples, that's very helpful! I listened through all of those, and I agree that several of them would translate very well as Band-in-a-Box styles. Some of them, however, likely wouldn't be suitable or would need to be modified. For stuff that's rubato, that likely wouldn't work in Band-in-a-Box, which by necessity needs to be "to the grid". Recording odd time signatures also doesn't translate well in Band-in-a-Box. That 9:4 style you posted has a great groove, but if we did that, we'd likely modify it to a 4:4 style (and I think the groove would still be very effective as a 4:4 style). That being said, any 4:4 style could then be changed to a time signature like 9:4 by treating it as 4+3+3, or something like that.

One final comment, the title of this thread was "Jazz as it's played today", but most of the samples listed above seem to be 70s or 80s. That's fine of course, but I just wanted to get a sense of whether or not that was indeed what you had in mind when you started the thread. Are there any examples from within the last decade that you also might think would be along the same lines?

thanks again, I really appreciate the suggestions!
Tobin

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Tobin Frank (he/him)
PG Music Inc.