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Last edited by jjang1993; 11-10-2022 at 12:26 PM.
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07-16-2022 08:39 PM
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Start with all of Wes’s covers. He did many pop tunes in his later albums.
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i really like Lucas Brar when it comes to pop / jazz crossover:
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Jazz standards were pretty much all pop tunes before they became jazz sandards. The Great American Songbook was the pop music of the time. Pop music has been incorporated into the jazz vocabulary since before there was "jass", and continues today. Examples are all over the place.
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Sure…
check out our forum member Jake Reichbart. He has an incredible number of educational videos of all sorts of pop songs, as well as the old war horse standards and ‘proper jazz’. Decent guy, plays beautifully.
https://www.jakereichbart.com/
Search on him here, he frequently posts new songs he’s worked up. And he often runs sales on his videos.
Anyone who gigs with blue tape covering the absent bridge pup on a down line Ibanez to me is a monster.
good luck!
jk
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I second Wes, and would add Gabor Szabo, Tony Mottola and Howard Roberts. More recently, there’s Bill Frisell and Scofield.
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Originally Posted by JazzPadd
Players like Mottola are every bit as important to jazz guitar as our usual idols. He was the main Tonight Show guitarist for years, and backed stars like Perry Como with tasteful and facile accompaniment. He wasn’t a “jazz guitarist”, but he could hold his own with the best of them and do so much more than most.
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Joe Pass and Roy Clark did an album of Hank Williams tunes.
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how deep is your love
my album features Wichita Lineman. Link below
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Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
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Great version.
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Check out Dave Stryker’s ‘8-track’ albums, he does great versions of 70s hits.
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I like this one a lot
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Sylvain Luc play a lot of pop tunes
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Originally Posted by JazzPadd
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Others:
John Pizzarelli
Pat Martino (Sunny on YouTube with Joey DeFrancesco)
Fareed Haque (CSNY cover album)
Bill Frisell
Earl Klugh
George Benson (Beatles)
Gabor Szabo
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Originally Posted by medblues
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I loved Scofield's Ray Charles tribute album.
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Of course, there's Bireli Lagrene!
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Lennon & McCartney tunes on this George Van Eps LP
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Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
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Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
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Local (Albany, NY) jazz guitarist Sam Farkas (R.I.P.), hipped me to Bobby Broom's 2001 album Stand album many years ago; it was my introduction to him and one I've pretty much followed in all the years since. Stand is entirely made up of 'Pop' covers and, IMO, impeccably played with his guitar-bass-drums working trio of that time in a very well-produced recording. Even after all these years later, I still play it it every now and then. VERY highly recommended.
His other excellent releases since have, IIRC, not been quite so pop-oriented, but those type of songs still do appear throughout his discography along the way anyway—if I'm recalling correctly, of course, since to my ears, they've all now become jazz tunes and, without fixating upon the actual titles, they've each simply become one more tune within Bobby's excellent discography to me.
Stand! | Bobby Broom
BTW, you can preview all the album's songs at the above site, even to their entirety, I believe.
NOT pop covers, but mentioning as a bonus: my other favorite album of Bobby's is Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (all Monk tunes in a trio).
Bobby Broom Plays for Monk | Bobby Broom
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Originally Posted by ooglybong
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Joe Pass did an album of Rolling Stones tunes in 1967, with John Pisano, Dennis Budimir, Ray Brown, John Guerin, Victor Feldman in the rhythm section, plus horns.
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