Your favorite renditions of the standards?

[HeyNow]

Polka Dots and Moonbeams - Wes Montgomery
Moonlight in Vermont - Johnny Smith Quintet
'Round Midnight - Thelonious

Autumn Leaves - ?
Misty - ?
Days of Wine and Roses - ?
Wave - ?
My Funny Valentine - ?

Others that stick out in your mind?

[Albatross]

Well, there are so many that I don't know where to start. But now I am in a kind of romantic moment so I'm going to choose those that I consider (today) my favourites in terms of beauty:

Desafinado - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd.
Just Friends - Charlie Parker with strings.
Say It - John Coltrane Quartet.
In your own sweet way - Wes Montgomery.
You don't know what love is - Sonny Rollins.

[destinytot]

Today, it's Freddie Hubbard playing Here's That Rainy Day (from Straight Life ​on CTI).

[MarkRhodes]

For "I've Got You Under My Skin," I'll take Sinatra.

[MarkRhodes]

This is my favorite version of "Cherokee"

[MarkRhodes]

So many classic recordings by Chet Baker---this is the one running through my head today

[PMB]

Here are some classic guitar renditions of tunes in question on the list:

Autumn Leaves - Tal Farlow (The Interpretations of Tal Farlow):

Misty - Wes Montgomery (The Small Group Recordings):

Days of Wine and Roses - Pat Martino (Exit):

Wave - Joe Pass (Tudo Bem!):

[Nate Miller]

that very record of Tal playing Autumn Leaves is my favorite.

Misty, though, I have no favorite version of

unfortunately, at North Texas, the clock tower of the admin building, which was dangerous close to the musician dorms, played Misty at noon. It was actually a synclanvier programed to play Misty using the sound of actual bells. Detuned and everything. Real big tech for 1983.

The opening "Clang, Clang..CLANG!!!" ruined me for that tune.

[MarkRhodes]

From one of my all-time favorite records. (The version of "After Hours" is my fave version of it too.)

[dasein]

Polka Dots and Moonbeams - Wes Montgomery
Moonlight in Vermont - Johnny Smith Quintet
'Round Midnight - Thelonious

Autumn Leaves - ?
Misty - ?
Days of Wine and Roses - ?
Wave - ?
My Funny Valentine - ?

Others that stick out in your mind?

the Wes version of Polka Dots is pretty impeccable. Lenny Breau also did a great version

Moonlight in Vermont - sorry Johnny, but Ahmad Jamal's version is poetry

'Round Midnight - it would probably be more fair to pick your favorite non-Monk version

Autumn Leaves - Keith Jarrett Trio at the Blue Note, with one of the most jaw dropping extended intros i've ever heard

Misty - hard to beat the composer

Days of Wine and Roses - Bill Frisell

Wave - McCoy Tyner

My Funny Valentine - Miles Davis

[Nate Miller]

Moonlight in Vermont - sorry Johnny, but Ahmad Jamal's version is poetry

Johnny Smith doing Moonlight in Vermont is a guitar classic


...just sayin

[MarkRhodes]

Love Herb's version of "It Could Happen To You."

[HeyNow]

Johnny Smith doing Moonlight in Vermont is a guitar classic


...just sayin

Also brought prominence to Stan Getz, but that's the beauty of interpretations, so many good ones.

Definitely will check these out.

[Bluzac]

As far as non-traditional jazz renditions go, Derek Trucks used to do very fine versions of Cheesecake, My Favorite Things, Greensleves, Footprints and Impressions. A personal favorite for me is a version of Afro Blue with Branford Marsalis from 2007.
https://archive.org/details/dtb2007-05-25.
I've always liked Kenny Burrell's rendition of Blue Bossa as well.

[MarkRhodes]

Barney's fabulous here:

[mr. beaumont]

Chet Baker's version.

[MarkRhodes]

Chet Baker's version.

Yeah, that version is special.

[MarkRhodes]

Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald did so many great versions of standards---this is among my very favorites.

[mr. beaumont]

Yeah, that version is special.

Lol, I was joking...Chet's version of any standard is often my favorite.

[MarkRhodes]

This is perfect

[MarkRhodes]

Lol, I was joking...Chet's version of any standard is often my favorite.

I love Chet too. This is also superb:

[mr. beaumont]

It says video not available...but I know that tune by Chet Well.

My favorites are his later versions of "I'm Old Fashioned" and the "Valentine" from the "last great concert." Despite how fucked up Chet was, his playing was absolutely perfect near the end of his life...never a wasted mote...and he swung so hard.


I'll catch shit for this, but Chet Baker is the trumpet player people think Miles was.

[HeyNow]

Speaking of Barney...

'Watch What Happens' floored me the first time I heard it. Had to listen to it again. Covers a lot of range. Absolute clinic.

30:05

[HeyNow]

I'll catch shit for this, but Chet Baker is the trumpet player people think Miles was.

As in Miles' trumpet playing is more well-regarded?

I think of Miles more as a composer and innovator. His style is totally different than Chet's e.g. lack of vibrato on Miles' part.

[mr. beaumont]

As in Miles' trumpet playing is more well-regarded?

I think of Miles more as a composer and innovator. His style is totally different than Chet's e.g. lack of vibrato on Miles' part.

No , as in the the folks who don't actually listen say "miles played ballads so well."

its bullshit. They think this about Bill Evans too...meanwhile, those of us who've actually listened know Bill swung like mad and Miles played about two ballads well...Miles excelled in mid tempo shit, challenging modal stuff, and some shrieking hardcore stuff. He was sooooooo much more than a fucking ballad player. and so was Bill.

now, who owned ballads..Chet. Which is not to say that was all he could do, as the greatest hits ignoramuses will say...Chet couldd swing, he could play bop, monk, you name it. But nobody owned a ballad like Chet. His tone was perfect, he never overplayed.