SOW: Say It Ain't So by The Jeff Lash Trio

May 29, 2003 4 | Comments (Closed)

The Artist: The Jeff Lash Trio
The Song: Say It Ain’t So
The Album: The Jeff Lash Trio Demos
Released 2003

This week we are going to change it up a bit and go even more mellow. The weeks song is a terrific cover of Say It Ain’t So, originally done by Weezer, now redone by the multitalented Jeff Lash and The Jeff Lash trio.

Their stuff is very mellow, sort of jazzy, yet funky, original and soothing all at the same time. To describe it as jazz would be to simple, there are elements of rock, reggae and lots more in there. It’s great music to code by, and yet I can imagine it setting the stage for a great evening out as well. Jeff’s mastery of the little heard (at least in my world) vibraphone is obvious, yet even someone with untrained ears can dig it.

Cool stuff.

Recommended if you like: Thelonious Monk, Weezer, Critters Buggin’, Maktub, John Coltrane, Pat Metheny

Filed under: Song of The Week

Comments

1. Josh Dura said:

great stuff man, i look forward to the SOW every week :) if you like this, check out anything by Cal Tjader, you will thank me for it :) My favorites from him are Speak Low, and Soul Sauce…

Posted on May 29, 2003 03:11 PM | #

2. Josh Dura said:

PS - if you need me to share the music on SoulSeek or Kazaa, let me know :)

Posted on May 29, 2003 03:11 PM | #

3. Keith said:

Glad y’all like it! There’s more to come!

Josh - I’ll have to check into that stuff. I imagine I can locate it, but thanks for the offer. I don’t use much peer-to-peer. On my Mac nothing seems to work very well…so…

Posted on May 29, 2003 05:35 PM | #

4. jefflash said:

Thanks everyone, glad you like my stuff.

If anyone wants to put it on Kaaza or any similar services, go right ahead! I’m not planning on selling or “officially” releasing any of these MP3s, so go ahead and do whatever you want with them.

If you like the vibes and are looking for some other (better) players, check out the aforementioned Cal Tjader, Bobby Hutcherson, Milt Jackson, Gary Burton, Steve Nelson, and a whole bunch of other people whose names I can’t think of.

If you like this style of music, check out artists like Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore, Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus, Medeski Martin Wood…

Posted on May 30, 2003 06:53 PM | #