Backing Tracks
Onsite jukebox
- Backing track - jazz standards (NOTE: don’t mind that these BT Jukebokses are on a site in Norwegian, for the time being.)
Free backing tracks
Play alongs
- Hal Leonard Jazz Play Along Series (Listen to the sample tracks!)
A good advice before you buy would be to listen to the sample tracks from the Hal Leonard and Aebersold playalong and compare them.
- Let’s Jam! Jazz & Blues Jam Tracks - Peter Vogls BTs from his Watch & Learn site.
- Ameritz - may have what you are looking for if you can’t find it elsewhere.
- jazzbacks.com - not the same quality as the Hal Lenoard and Aebersold playalongs.
Make your own backing tracks
Software
- JAM Free accompaniment software. See onsite article on JAM!
- Band-In-A-Box (a.k.a. BiaB)
- 500+ BIAB songs from the Real Book here http://phillipsmusic.net/realbook.htm
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- Groove Agent
- Virtual Guitarist
- Broomstick Bass
- Line6 Riff Tracker - loop-based recording software.
Hardware
Bireli Lagrene and Sylvain Luc’s version of Isn’t she lovely:
Here’s a demo on how you can use a loop station. Jazz guitarist Victor Saumarez using a loop station to crate a funky jazz groove:
