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Two of my favorite instrumentals ...
Paul Taylor with Pleasure Seeker :
And Paul Hardcastle with Paradise Cove :
Before Kool & The Gang became an R&B Band...
They were a jazz - fusion band
Summer Madness - Has been sampled and also used as background music in many movies and tv shows as well
Fusion Jazz
Shadowfax - Watercourse Way album Watercourse Way
Atticus Finch
Pure Jazz
Weather Report - Birdland live performance.
on Bass the late great Joco Pastorious
Atticus Finch
The Bill Evan's trio perform "Waltz for Debby"
First minute is playing main theme in 3/4 jazz waltz time then at 1:10 they morph into 4/4 swing tempo and trade solos.
Evan's was a prolific jazz pianist and a inspiration to many that follow. He was a master of chord structure and melody. If you watch other vid's of him he can get contorted with his head hung low over the keyboard. Sorta looks like Stephen Hawking twisted up in his wheelchair while he jams.
Second clip is Zeppelin live doing the intense blue number "Since I've been loving you."
Another great instrumental I cant find video for is Pat Metheny's "Are you going with me" from the awesome "Offramp" album.
Everybody knows "Stairway to Heaven" is the best instrumental
But, then there's thousands of hours of Dead jams recorded too
That's a tough question but I'd say "Dark Star"
Santana, Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaT_HRb4GU
I offer this new take on a classic instrumental. Max Richter In Concert: Reimagining Vivaldi's four seasons.
My Dad's era
A favorite of mine...
anything with mark o conner, jerry douglas, bela fleck
Weather Report Birdland reminded me of Teen Town.. This version from 8:30 great live album.
Theme from a Summer Place (Percy Faith)
Stranger on the Shore (Acker Bilk)
Believe it or not, these 2 were the #1 songs of the year in the 1960’s.
SRJ was on another level…
Just hadn't gotten around to him yet ....
The late great SRV: Testify - Live
Album - Texas Flood
Atticus Finch
Perhaps... The most played instrumental ever --- Love's Theme by Love Unlimited Orchestra
Chuck on the horn
The song that took Kenny G from playing venues like the Golden Bear in HB and Concerts by the sea on the Redondo Beach Pier, to playing the Universal Amphitheater at Universal Studios
Orion
There are so many!! But a group not mentioned yet:
Return To Forever — Sorceress
And the aforementioned Pat Metheny — The First Circle
Lady - 1967
Here's another fav of mine. Out of the King Crimson bunch. Great analog synthesizer.
Nice chill out trax.
Sounds from the Ground go way back.
Spiritualized - I Think I'm in Love (The Chemical Brothers Remix)
Not really an instrumental, but awesome none the less.
Listen to this one with headphones if you can.
YYZ by Rush.
Sorry, don't know how to link a video so it shows up...maybe someone can do that???
^ Got you bro
Love it when a song is so good that it doesn't even need the words to make you sing it to yourself
The Smiths, well more specifically Johnny Fuckin' Marr:
Oscillate Wildly
The Draize Train (live version on album Rank)
Money Changes Everything (which later because Bryan Ferry's "The Right Stuff")
Loverboy and Turn Me Loose without the lyrics, just classic music that you can never forget
Let's try another that won't block the content
Loverboy with Turn Me Loose
Some interesting stuff here, some classics and some that are not instrumentals.
All good tho.
This ones a classic!
King Crimson- Discipline (live)
The Orb
Sepultura Kaiowas (Tribal Jam)
Halcyon On and On, LOL!!!!!!!!!!
That song was in the first Mortal Kombat Movie !!!!!!
here is something that will @Zeros will either like or hate , have to throw in some Drum and Bass from the late 90's early 2000's
Beethoven Piano Sonata No.8 Op.13 Brendel
Photek and I go way back VSS!
Nice choices, Here is one from the back catalog.
Just for funsies.
(This time with the links)
There are so many!! But a group not mentioned yet:
Return To Forever -- Sorceress
And the aforementioned Pat Metheny -- First Circle
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