# Name my Jazz Quartet **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 30, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243 "2009-03-30T01:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/1 "2009-03-30T01:28:54Z")
Our instrumentation is Voice, Piano, Bass, and Tenor Sax. Just met today and it went well. We are playing traditional jazz songs like Fever, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore…Diana Krallish stuff. We will be milling names over the week. I’ve tried…but what the hell do you name a jazz quartet? I’d like it not to be cheesy (like Swinging Saxs) or anything like that. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/2 "2009-03-30T02:59:46Z")
Can’t go too wrong with The Your Name Here Quartet. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/3 "2009-03-30T03:12:24Z")
The Jazz Messengers The [your city here] Jazz Explosion Jazz by Design ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/4 "2009-03-30T03:26:33Z")
Sax Appeal? _ducks and runs_ ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/5 "2009-03-30T04:32:42Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > The Jazz Messengers Been [used](http://www.artblakey.com/). ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/6 "2009-03-30T04:46:45Z")
Buck and the 4 Quarters ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/7 "2009-03-30T12:19:41Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Been [used](http://www.artblakey.com/). Oops. :smack: The Jazz Ambassadors The Jazz Couriers The Jazz Emissaries The Jazz Prophets ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/8 "2009-03-30T12:42:46Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Can’t go too wrong with The Your Name Here Quartet. I’d vote for this approach, too. Gut feel for me is that well over 80% of groups who want to appeal to a Krallish audience will avoid the MJQ or Flecktones or Supersax naming ideas, and go straight for the leader’s name: Brubeck, Shearing, Davis, Metheny, Mulligan, the list goes on forever. If you consider yourselves leaderless, or don’t want the name tied to one of you, you might pick your location (city, school, even state) as the basis, like the Honolulu Jazz Quartet does. Otherwise, leave the cutesy names to the Rock groups. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/9 "2009-03-30T13:01:16Z")
The Melodious Thonks? Okay, mebbe not. Considering your town’s history, _The Amalgamation_, or perhaps just something simple with a member’s name Quartet or even The Silk Quartet. Okay, on preview what Zeldar and Beware of Doug said. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/10 "2009-03-30T13:49:30Z")
Quasi Modality. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/11 "2009-03-30T14:37:30Z")
My brother named his jazz band Blue Train after the Coltrane tune. Pick a song and play off that maybe? ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/12 "2009-03-30T15:52:56Z")
Just Four Jazz. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/13 "2009-03-30T16:11:39Z")
Edgar. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/14 "2009-03-30T16:37:42Z")
Modulation. The Metro-nomes. The Reeds. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/15 "2009-03-30T17:26:13Z")
Lloyd and the Minsters Chordless The Freeform Quartet 40 Fingers Great Northern Quartet Two Plus Quartet to name a few. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/16 "2009-03-30T22:14:01Z")
How about “Take Four”? Take Five is a song title. Take Six is already in use. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/17 "2009-03-30T22:30:03Z")
> [@kitemaker\_chuck](#): > > How about “Take Four”? > > Take Five is a song title. > Take Six is already in use. Too similar to “[Fourplay](http://www.fourplayjazz.com/)”? ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/18 "2009-03-30T23:27:43Z")
_Four Hugh Jazzes_, or just, _Hugh Jazz_. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/19 "2009-03-30T23:31:17Z")
A One, a Two, a Three, and a Four ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-jazz-quartet/491243/20 "2009-03-31T02:48:39Z")
How about… (1) “The Combo Combo” or… (2) “The Quartet Quartet”