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dickiefunk · Post by **dickiefunk** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:04 pm

Hi,

Could anyone recommend some recordings I could listen to for examples of good tinkly big band piano fills?
I'm finishing off a bigband vocal track and it needs some tasteful tinkly piano fills.

Thanks

Bobbotov · Post by **Bobbotov** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:58 pm

From 3:38

dickiefunk · Post by **dickiefunk** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:00 pm

Thanks for these clips so far! Yeah Basie was one of the masters at this!

Are there any more current examples on a vocal track? Looking for some inspiration at filling around a vocal and general decoration throughout a track.

Bobbotov · Post by **Bobbotov** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:23 pm

I don't think it makes much difference on whether it is comping around instruments or a vocal. The technique is pretty much the same: light embellishments that fill the gaps.

Not big band but had great interplay.

Here's one with

Another one without a singer is

Bobbotov · Post by **Bobbotov** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:43 pm

There's a good section from 1:30 to 1:48 in this old Buddy Morrow recording of

Incidentally, M Squad was the piece that influenced Leslie Nielson's

dickiefunk · Post by **dickiefunk** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 2:51 pm

Thanks for all these clips Bobbotov. Plenty of listening there.

Any more modern examples? I'm thinking along the lines of Paul Anka, Diana Krall, Michael Buble etc? Also the track is more of a medium up swing.

Bobbotov · Post by **Bobbotov** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 2:04 pm

Maybe Jane Monheit. Nice piano accompaniment.

Tinkly Big Band piano fills?