Stanley Music Links

Captured inspirations from the
Stanley Middle School Music Department.

This site is a log of artist and song citations observed during Stanley Middle School jazz band rehearsals.

Music Geek Humor

An E flat, G flat and B flat walk into a bar and the bartender says, “I’m sorry we don’t serve minors.” I guess I should be careful of my puns or they might get me in treble, but they’re the key to my humor and very noteworthy.

Does any of this strike a chord with you?

Sep
13th

Tue

In this video, the first solo part that the Messengers should be playing starts around 0:57 and goes to about 1:13

Apr
27th

Wed

Messengers Set List

Here’s where we are headed.

Love Walked In
Bye, Bye, Blackbird
* Us
* Whispering
Trickle Down Shuffle
* Just Dance
* Super Mario
True North
What’d I Say
* Drop In The Bucket

* For Friday rehearsal

Tunes in BOLD will be performed at the Jazz Cafe.
On May 10, we’ll start deleting and handing in songs that we won’t be playing.

Apr
17th

Sun

Alligator Boogaloo
Lou Donaldson Quintet

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Us
by Thad Jones/Arranged by Mike Carubia

Mar
28th

Mon

Shifting Down
Kenny Dorham

Chet Baker
Shifting down

Mar
19th

Sat

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Whispering
Solo Changes

Mar
13th

Sun

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Whispering

Mar
11th

Fri

Congratulations, Messengers!

Great job Friday night at the jazz concert with Tom Scott! Everybody gets Tuesday morning off (without pay).

On Wednesday., we will go in depth on:

1) Whispering
2) Love Walked In
3) Drop In The Bucket

Please have these parts learned before you arrive on Wednesday.

Feb
21st

Mon

Pianist and composer Sir George Shearing has died, at age 91.

Born blind, Shearing was a self-taught musician, the youngest of nine children of a London coal man. In a career spent almost entirely in the U.S., he won fame, fortune and eventually a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth for a lifetime of elegant jazz.

Feb
16th

Wed

The 100 Quintessential Jazz Songs

The Jazz 100 is a crowdsourced list of the most quintessential jazz songs of all time, determined by the listeners of Jazz24.org and NPR Music.

Jimmy Heath talks about “storytelling’ through music.

Night Train
Jimmy Forrest with Count Basie