Has anyone recorded "Won't Get Fooled Again" in a jazz style?

[dconeill]

Has anyone recorded a version of The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" in a jazz style, perhaps as an instrumental? If so, please let me know. I want to hear what they've done with the song.

[David B]

Allmusic doesn't record any jazz artist recordings of the song. The closest I can find is Laurence Juber's acoustic solo guitar take.

[Peter C]

Some songs just don't lend themselves to "jazzification". This song, with its characteristic A/G/D major chord move, is one of them. In fact, if you don't play it as intended with the required attack, muting etc, it's going to sound crap.

Try another.

... like The Charlie Hunter Trio playing Come As You Are or The Final Countdown by Gunhild Carling (LOL) ?

PS I respect Laurence Juber, but I would probably just leave that arrangement for parties.

[PMB]

Try another.

... like The Charlie Hunter Trio playing Come As You Are

Paul Anka's swing big band version probably started out as a tongue-in-cheek idea but it's unexpectedly convincing:

[sgcim]

I write big band arrangements of some rock tunes, but they've got to have more 'meat' on them than that one. I've done Traffic, Love, Nick Drake, Judee Sill, The Association, King Crimson, Steely Dan, The Youngbloods, Nilsson, Circus Maximus, If, Simon and Garfunkel, Boz Scaggs, and The Free Design,Spanky and our Gang, Laura Nyro, but never the Who.
Townshend never did jazz.

[PMB]

Townshend never did jazz.

Surprising as Pete is a huge Pat Martino fan and his father was a jazz saxophonist.

[ragman1]

But why would a jazz player want to do a screaming rock song? I'm not saying they couldn't, but why would they want to?

[SoftwareGuy]

But why would a jazz player want to do a screaming rock song? I'm not saying they couldn't, but why would they want to?

Maybe they want a bigger audience.

[pamosmusic]

Or their taste in music is eclectic. Donny McCaslin did the Bowie album and then this was on his next solo record. That sax solo has electric guitar written all over it — pentatonics, bends, repetition, false fingerings.