Instrumental Music
 

I'm looking for some study music. Have a couple cd's worth Sounds of Wood and Steel- it's all guitar music. Do you have any other fav's with this kinda music? Guitar, jazz, piano, (relatively contemporary music of all instruments w/o lyrics) etc..

Yo Vig,
Exc pick of Sounds of Steel & Wood!
One of my personal faves...skip vol II; it sucks.

Some other picks for your perusal, from the dozens that I have or
come to mind:
-Best of Bill Evans, (cool, smooth, '50s/'60s piano) on Verve recs.
-Celtic Twilight 2: sorta new age, but very well done if you like
Scot/Celtic tunes and v. lil' singing.
-Celtic Horizons by Phil Coulter...good composer and piano player on
Shanachie records. (That label has a helluva catalog of that genre')
-Miles Davis, Kind of Blue...a freakin Classic.
-Stan Getz, Finest Hour
-And George Winston...Windam Hill. Don't laugh: no one here,
combined, can play piano as well as he does.
-Seamus Egan, When Juniper Sleeps. Very talented composer and
plays everything. Celtic based, but modern.
-Beyond the Missouri Sky by Chas.Hayden & Pat Metheny
-Bach Variations, smoothed out and orchestrated, on Windham Hill.

Any/all Beethoven, for my dough; my Fave Classical composer, but
you may not dig him, yet. Try piano sonatas 31 and 30, in that order, of his 32 p. sonatas, played by anyone.

And, give Pandora.com a try: their free version puts a few "albums" together, for you, after punching in your "wants" and tastes, etc.
http://www.pandora.com/

My 25Cts, in the JukeBox, has expired.
GL,Ol'UncleMotor

I think you need satellite radio. I installed XM at home last week, and there are some awesome Jazz channels between 65 and 72 I think. I just leave that on. :thumbup:

My favorite CD to study to: Steve Haun - Midnight Echos

Another good artist is Grover Washington Jr.

when you say instrumental music, do you mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvNLqH9DZ8o

if you look closely, you will see PNG and Dr Kewl in the vid... Michelle tears up the barn floor to this kind of music...

LOL..

Viggy.. how bout some Kenny G and Enya.. us old folks used to listen to that when we were studying them books.. :)

:withstupi

yup.. good call! :withstupi

J, I'm really "old", but I think KG, et al, suck. :rofl:

haha.. you're beyond old so that doesn't count.. btw.. is that age discrimination??? LOL

on a serious note... i listen to david sanborn, kimiko itoh, hiroshima, etc..

Earl Klugh
 

why don't you try his album "Finger Paintings"

If were talking about study i believe the music needs to be interesting enough in the background that it can be played over and over again to keep you awake but soft enough not to get in the way by being a distraction. Since I do on the average about 15 hours of study per week i usually use the following selections which have no vocals and no horns. ( Except for a few selections on the (Michel Colombier “ Old fool back on earth) Double album.

Horns like vocals grab your attention and for study you don't want that. If you have iTunes i believe you can preview some of these CD's. Let me know what you think.

Michel Colombier “ Old fool back on earth
Andreas Vollenweider (Caverna Magica Under the Tree)
Ramsey Lewis Maiden Voyage
Ramsey Lewis Ivory Pryamid
Ramsey lewis Sky Island

Get yourself a Django Reinhardt CD.

JV

Damn, JV...I didn't think anyone else had ever heard of/heard
"Jango's" guitar stuff! :thumbup:

I am a huge fan of his, even moreso after I learned that his fret hand was severely burned and he basically plays with his index and middle fingers. Amazing talent who revolutionized the role of the guitar in a band.

JV

Another one who fits in that catagory. is Stanley Jordan. http://www.google.com/musica?aid=Lc3...usic&ct=result

Yes Sir, a remarkable talent, if a tad wacked...
I like his music in smallish doses.

Not surprised, really, that you knew of his music,
as you were/are in theBiz.

This board has a fookin remarkable, vast pool of knowledgeable
posters, info and ideas. :thumbup:

Some intrumentals from my collection:
Flim and the BB's
The Rippingtons
Robert Michaels
Ottmar Liebert
Alturas

Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson for me

Jazz = Foreplay.. for me.. great music

W56:)

Fellas, thanks for the suggestions! Lotta great stuff in this thread. Was gone for a couple days after posting the question and forgot :o. Will def check out all mentioned here.

As far as xm,etc go, I rarely study in my room, already have a great mp3 (iAudio X5) player w/ ~28gb of music, don't want to spend money on another portable device / pay a monthly fee.

The current study music collection (a very small portion of my music, but looking to grow it) includes, among others:

Dave Koz- my fav jazz artist
Chris Botti
Dave Grusin
David Sanborn
Enya
Enigma
Kenny G...of course
etc

Oldies Jazz- miles davis, wes montomery, tony benett, etc
etc

African Chill- def contemp music
Bent- contemp
etc

got some classical too, but got sick of it..

try www.radioio.com
I listen to it all the time...pretty cruisy. Choose ambient in the selections