What non-jazz tunes would you play?

**Jazzyteach65** · 09-20-2010, 05:21 PM

which non-"jazz" tunes woulkd you like to play/arrange and use as improvisational vehicles? I mean pop, rock, hip-hop, ect? Melhdau did his whole Soundgarden and Radiohead stuff, and recently Metheny has been doing pop interpretations.

I would love to do a Bjork catalog, because her tunes are way hip and very intricate. I would also like to do some Jackson 5, Marvin Gay and AL Green.

"Venus as a Boy" would be the first I'd tackle. I don't know why anyone hasn't done a chord-solo arrangement of it yet

**billkath** · 09-20-2010, 05:40 PM

We do a Swing version of Valerie by Amy Winehouse.

**BigDaddyLoveHandles** · 09-20-2010, 05:43 PM

Bohemian Rhapsody?

**Jazzyteach65** · 09-20-2010, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles

Bohemian Rhapsody?

are you serious? that's kinda cheesy. No offense. i would rather do an elton john set

**BigDaddyLoveHandles** · 09-20-2010, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by Jazzyteach65

are you serious? that's kinda cheesy. No offense. i would rather do an elton john set

Whoops! I thought the question was "not touch"

I admire when folks (usually pianists) pull off a jazzy version of a Bach tune, but that's beyond me.

**FatJeff** · 09-20-2010, 06:22 PM

This one would be be fun:

**Shadow of the Sun** · 09-20-2010, 06:34 PM

Free Bird.

Just so when that stupid smug bastard in the crowd calls for it, I can give him- and the entire crowd- a 20 minute long version of Free Bird and watch him get the crap beat out of him.

**markf** · 09-20-2010, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by billkath

We do a Swing version of Valerie by Amy Winehouse.

amy has quite a few tunes that would be good to cover, especially from her first album "Frank"

There are some very good tunes there that no interpretation is needed, like "Cherry", which is a bossa nova, a song she wrote about her new guitar.

check out her rendition of "Moodie's mood for love" wow.

Not many current jazz singers that are close to Amy.

**markf** · 09-20-2010, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by billkath

We do a Swing version of Valerie by Amy Winehouse.

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just listened to that.

she is so good.

**BigDaddyLoveHandles** · 09-20-2010, 07:06 PM

Too bad she can't lay off the heroin & horse tranquilizer cocktails.

**GodinFan** · 09-20-2010, 08:35 PM

There are several beatles tunes that work well. I'm checking out some Tom Waits tunes as well.

**Shadow of the Sun** · 09-20-2010, 09:18 PM

GodinFan: would you include the werewolf singing? =P

**RonD** · 09-20-2010, 11:14 PM

Many years ago, I had an album by guitarist Louis Stewart, where he did a brilliant Jazz interpretation of Faure's Pavanne.
I'd love to find that album again. Does anyone here know of it?

**cosmic gumbo** · 09-21-2010, 02:46 AM

I'm working on an adaptation of Cochise by Audioslave.

**Fritzjazz** · 09-21-2010, 11:34 AM

"As Tears Go By" by the Stones works well

**jeffstritt** · 09-21-2010, 12:17 PM

A lot of Western Swing stuff would be pretty close anyways. I played in a country band one time that did a kind of jazzed up version of "Time Changes Everything," by Bob Wills.

**markf** · 09-21-2010, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles

Too bad she can't lay off the heroin & horse tranquilizer cocktails.

A horse vet told me that horse tranquilizers would kill any person.

anyway, yeah,

whatever she may be taking, hope she can quit, that means smoking cigarettes too.

**markf** · 09-21-2010, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by RonD

Many years ago, I had an album by guitarist Louis Stewart, where he did a brilliant Jazz interpretation of Faure's Pavanne.
I'd love to find that album again. Does anyone here know of it?

do you mean ravel... pavan for a dead princess?

**Dad3353** · 09-21-2010, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by markf

do you mean ravel... pavan for a dead princess?

Probably this...

Pavane, de Fauré...

Hope this helps

**jazzbow** · 09-21-2010, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by Shadow of the Sun

Free Bird.

Just so when that stupid smug bastard in the crowd calls for it, I can give him- and the entire crowd- a 20 minute long version of Free Bird and watch him get the crap beat out of him.

HA HA HA HA HA......................
How about 'Sultans of swing.' That could finish off the set with a good kicking...

**Jazzyteach65** · 09-21-2010, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by FatJeff

This one would be be fun:

Yessir! GREAT tune!

**RonD** · 09-21-2010, 05:16 PM

The album was called "Milesian Source". 1977, Ronnie Scott produced it, I think.

**Jazzyteach65** · 09-21-2010, 06:13 PM

If this isn't hot, I don't know what is.

**patskywriter** · 09-21-2010, 06:16 PM

norwegian wood
scarborough fair
come saturday morning
i will wait for you
my cherie amour

jazzyteach65, thanks for the above video. that was an awful choice for a 'jazz' tune, but what the heck—it's kenny burrell!