What should I name my jazz band?

what the heck should i name my new jazz band?

  • help me name my indonesian-jazz-band-with-a-dj! i know i'm not the first to ask for bandname suggestions on askmefi, and i probably wont be the last, as you guys are good at this! while i, unfortunately, *suck* at coming up with band names. and as the marketing dept for the hotel we play at is asking for a name and description by the end of the day (we started the day before yesterday) i could sure use your help! :) the description part was easy: "********* mixes dj beats with traditional jazz instruments and vocals to make a sophisticated urban sound thats both funky and easy on the ears." we sound not entirely unlike united future organization, but we're a band, rather than to 2 djs sampling jazz tracks. personnel: me as the dj, a female vocalist, standup bass, piano, and a percussionist on bongos, congos and shakers. finding a servicable-but-generic-hotel-band name isn't impossible ("bali beats quintet" is the best i've come up with so far, eh), but one day i hope to take this project to somewhat better things (jakarta jazz festival seems quite plausible for example, and we'll probably release a cd fairly soon) so i'd like to have a somewhat decent, clever, descriptive-but-not-too-obvious name. oh! we're based in bali! and as we're playing the tourist circuit, incorporating a bali/indonesia/asian sort of theme to our name is *almost* (but not strictly) neccesary. i know this much: it's a quintet, and if you stick "quintet" at the end of the name, everyone knows it's jazz - i'm not married to that idea, but it's a starting point anyway.

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    I've always thought that Bintang Besar would be a good name for something. It literally means "big star" in Indonesian, but Bintang is also the name of the most popular local brand of beer, so "Bintang besar" (a large (22oz?) bottle of beer) is the standard drink order.

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Jimbaran Jazz Quintet has a nice sound to it. Other ideas: Bali Baluga Jazzmatazz Bali 5 Denpasar Dainty Quintet Bali Bali Brouhaha Coffee Quintet That's about all I've thought of.

Kattullus

oopss ... should be band, not brand

joewandy

i don't think the name would have to be bali-specific. A lot of famous brand in Indonesia simply plucks a random word to be their band name :P

joewandy

flimsy pretext is a great name! for another band, but still. ok, it's morning, i've thought about it, and i believe we're called "the reformasi jazz quintet" thanks to everyone for their fantastic ideas, i really had a hard time choosing from all the great suggestions!

messiahwannabe

This doesn't have much to do with anything, but I've always thought Flimsy Pretext would be a good band name. Maybe that's why I'm not in a band.

rossination

Well, if you're into drugs, you could call yourselves... http://youtube.com/watch?v=81NROmUb7o0.

miss lynnster

the bali 5! i just caught that! blatant drug references. good or not? hmmmmm. goddamn, you guys rock! great ideas!

messiahwannabe

"There's a coffee pun in there somewhere but I'll be damned if I can think of it." the java od quintet? the java jitters? heh, on the other hand, i'm in bali, a friend of mine in a balinese punk bank has "fuck java" tatooed on his back; it's an old inter-island rivalry thing. but then again, i think everyone in the band is actually javanese. anyway... wow! good stuff guys! i love it! my band name is in here somewhere.

messiahwannabe

Well, Java Jazz or some version of that might be fun: The Java Jazz Five Jazzjava There's a coffee pun in there somewhere but I'll be damned if I can think of it.

Kattullus

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