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Hi folks,
do you know any bands out there that play sort of jazzsurf kinda music? Haven´t found any myself...

Thanks! Smile

Last edited: Feb 07, 2014 21:55:37

Spies who surf

Jeff(bigtikidude)

I do. Wanna start a band?

Squink Out!

The Mattson 2 Costa Mesa, Ca.

Slacktone recorded some jazzy-sounding songs, like "Hit Man" and "Reflection: Life or Lemming".

The original "Walk Don't Run" by Johnny Smith is fun to listen to, since I first heard the surf version by The Ventures.

https://striciizozadja.bandcamp.com/

Last edited: Feb 08, 2014 04:01:18

drumfun wrote:

The Mattson 2 Costa Mesa, Ca.

They are awesome. Check also Ray Barbee.

andreuthegiant wrote:

drumfun wrote:

The Mattson 2 Costa Mesa, Ca.

They are awesome. Check also Ray Barbee.

Check out this old episode from Check 1,2 when Fuel TV showed something other than MMA fights. It's not surf but the music is great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4MW1h5uoY0

Ray Barbee rules:

Ah, thanks. A little to look up. Nice!

Joao Erbetta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuE5B5oB-YY

I would argue that the Huntington Cads and the Vanduras might fit that bill. Here are some others:

The Squares - 1995-2002
The Mystery Men? - 2012-
MOONBASE - 2012-2017
The KBK - 2017-2022
The Frigidaires 2021-
Southern Surf Stomp!

We, Urban Surf Kings, do some of this in our live shows, especially when we play some Mancini songs: Shot In the Dark, Pink Panther, Mr. Yunioshi, Charade, banzai Pipeline...

Rev

Canadian Surf

http://www.urbansurfkings.com/

Ray Barbee on the Squier Jazzmaster, now I want one more than ever.

All I wish I knew what they were talking about

Last edited: Feb 13, 2014 00:10:21

Check out "Mambo Sinuendo" by Manuel Galbàn & Ry Cooder, which actually is really neither Surf nor Jazz, but then again sounds a bit like both of it. If that makes any sense. Hmmm

Also: Marc Ribot played a bit of jazzed up surf when he came to Berlin a few years ago. His recordings with Los Cubanos Postizos may also be worth checking out.

Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin)
"Postcards from the Scrapyard" Vol. 1, 2 & 3 NOW available on various platforms!
"Chaos at the Lobster Lounge" available as LP and download on Surf Cookie Records!

Hey simoncoil, this is my video! Big Grin
I made this at the "Wassermusikfestival" 2008 in Berlin.
The days before there played the Surfaris and the Bambi Molesters.
We made some nice sightseeing with Jim Fuller, Paul Johnson, Dusty Watson and Ron Eglit. Good days!

It was a festival with especially surf music in the center of Berlin!
Marc Ribot is an INCREDIBLE guitarist!!! But normally he does not play surf music. The story behind why he played there: The organisators from the Wassermusik Festival asked Marc Ribot if he plays Surf Music? He said: "Yes, for sure, I play surf music." So he get this nice gig there! BUT I also heard from Marc Ribot that they turned the program a bit into some surf style music. Therefore the "Caravan" version here.
Anyway, simoncoil mentioned Marc Ribot! This is senseful. M. Ribot has also collaboration with a portuguese band called Dead Combo. There are also sometimes sounds like we know from surf music.

Twang cheers!

Ralf Kilauea

www.kilaueas.de

https://kilaueas.bandcamp.com/album/touch-my-alien

Last edited: Feb 13, 2014 02:23:49

The Setzer stuff?

from surf to jazz

from jazz to surf

original compositions (low-level demo stuff /out of tune, etc) myStuff not my best, but i don't like to be in a musician community without anything to show

Ribot is described as the 'world's best sloppy guitarist'. He likes guitars that are by jazz standards, poorly set up, so he has to struggle with them. That seems kind of surf to me, the preference for Jags and Jazzmasters with thick strings and high action over too easily-played Strats 'set up right'. Ribot makes a lot of the quirks of Fender and other guitars, physical things like fret-out and buzz.
Now the other great jazz guitarist, Bill Frisell is doing something surfy with his 'Guitar in the Space Age' show currently touring with a 'surf' band. When a record comes out it will be a revelation.
Many of the genre lines we post-moderns like to reify were fairly fluid when the sound of modernist guitar was being invented. Even Joe Pass played a Jazzmaster for a little while.

Squink Out!

HallmarkSweptWinger wrote:

Hey simoncoil, this is my video! Big Grin
I made this at the "Wassermusikfestival" 2008 in Berlin.
The days before there played the Surfaris and the Bambi Molesters.
We made some nice sightseeing with Jim Fuller, Paul Johnson, Dusty Watson and Ron Eglit. Good days!

I missed most of the festival out of my own stupidity and only was there on the second day (Boom Pam, Bambi Molesters and a screening of "Step into Liquid"). But this was long before I actually felt comfortable enough to talk to anybody actually involved in surf music (althoug I already played in a surfband for some years). I think I actually stood right behind you most of the concert. Embarassed

But I saw Ribot with his trio a few months ago, which mostly performs free jazz in the style of Albert Ayler. I liked it but never the less got a headache from it. Whatever

JObeast wrote:

Now the other great jazz guitarist, Bill Frisell is doing something surfy with his 'Guitar in the Space Age' show currently touring with a 'surf' band. When a record comes out it will be a revelation.
Many of the genre lines we post-moderns like to reify were fairly fluid when the sound of modernist guitar was being invented. Even Joe Pass played a Jazzmaster for a little while.

A record with Frisell playing surf would be great, but I think it is rather improbable to happen. It seems like only few of the man's projects ever get on a record. He also played on John Zorn's "Naked City" which has quite a few but very brief spy/surf moments thrown into the tunes. Pretty wild stuff!

Considering Joe Pass: I actually used to run one of his solo concerts through an amp sim with a lot of spring reverb just to see what it would sound like. I also tried it with some fuzz, but these jazz chord somehow work much better with a surf sound Wink

Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin)
"Postcards from the Scrapyard" Vol. 1, 2 & 3 NOW available on various platforms!
"Chaos at the Lobster Lounge" available as LP and download on Surf Cookie Records!

Does this count? Cool

Not a real band but another great moment, where surf met jazz: Dusty Watson, Don Boomer and friends pounding their way through "Sing Sing Sing" during the members's jam of the SG101 convention 2010.

Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin)
"Postcards from the Scrapyard" Vol. 1, 2 & 3 NOW available on various platforms!
"Chaos at the Lobster Lounge" available as LP and download on Surf Cookie Records!

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