ideas for pop or rock tunes to jazz up?

[wengr]

I'd be interested in suggestions of pop or rock tunes that have been ported to fusion or jazz styles. In particular, pieces that can be covered well by a trio or quartet.
I need to get better at this type of arranging, and I would benefit from some good examples.
Original genre can be most anything.
One example of what I mean is Johnny A's version of Wind Cries Mary:

[christianm77]

[wengr]

Beautiful, and very much what I'm looking for. Thanks

[lammie200]

Something by Burt Bacharach?

[christianm77]

[christianm77]

Real Feels do loads of this stuff.... Here's one I haven't listened to yet!

[gggomez]

Love the Real Feels Scarborough Fair paarticularly

Petros and Gilad did a pile of Beatles tunes, is Petros not the most melodic bass player

[fasstrack]

I really like what he did with this: the spirit of the song is there, I can hear the lyric, the backbeat is gentle and not pounding, as befits a Jimmy Webb song. I didn't bother to listen to the solos, that's Ben's thing, and he's a strong straight 8th player---I know the song is in good hands from the melody statement.

(I've been playing this song everyday myself lately, and pretty straight, with a build-up and blowing on a vamp on those last 2 changes---works b/c the story is already told with the melody and contrast gives something new, while reinforcing).

Kudos...

[fasstrack]

I'd be interested in suggestions of pop or rock tunes that have been ported to fusion or jazz styles. In particular, pieces that can be covered well by a trio or quartet.
I need to get better at this type of arranging, and I would benefit from some good examples.
Original genre can be most anything.
One example of what I mean is Johnny A's version of Wind Cries Mary:

I don't see how this is 'jazzed up'---just sped up and still with a backbeat having to do more with rock than jazz or anything else. Frankly, I prefer Jimi's original tempo. If it ain't broke...

Good player of this ilk, though...

[nick1994]

I always dig what frisell does with rock and pop tunes

[cosmic gumbo]

Thomas Chapin did a killing version of Ticket To Ride.

[christianm77]

I really like what he did with this: the spirit of the song is there, I can hear the lyric, the backbeat is gentle and not pounding, as befits a Jimmy Webb song. I didn't bother to listen to the solos, that's Ben's thing, and he's a strong straight 8th player---I know the song is in good hands from the melody statement.

(I've been playing this song everyday myself lately, and pretty straight, with a build-up and blowing on a vamp on those last 2 changes---works b/c the story is already told with the melody and contrast gives something new, while reinforcing).

Kudos...

Yeah I've been playing this one a lot too... That's pretty much how I do it.

[wengr]

Ok, now this one makes me want to drop the idea, and probably quit playing the guitar.

[christianm77]

Gilad isn't shit

[fasstrack]

Gilad isn't shit

Whoa!!

SO glad I came back---he hee...

[christianm77]

;-)

[neatomic]

glamjazz?...brad shepik & co (pachora) do bowie

cheers

[christianm77]

Oh that is acceptable. Shepik isn't shit either.

(Actually I think I'm going to get into the understatement thing, as I'm fed up of 'killing', 'm*th*rf*ck*r', 'awesome' and so on.)

I really rather enjoy his Middle Eastern inflected stuff that the other David B (the bearer of all jazz guitar knowledge) introduced me to, and in turn I've turned a few people onto his stuff... I'd forgotten about this album.

[neatomic]

shepik's the shit!!!...great player..eclectic and always interesting

cheers

[christianm77]

BTW - trying to track down CD's of noughties jazz albums is an expensive business! I would like a copy of that album for the car, but not at the prices they are at...

[fasstrack]

I AM--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------shit. (Made ya look...).

'I'm good enough, I'm smart enough----and, doggone it, people LIKE me'------Stuart Smalley

[christianm77]

shepik's the shit!!!...great player..eclectic and always interesting

cheers

So Shepik, isn't shit, he is the shit.

That's how grammar works around here, deal with it.

Might we also say that Shepik = Epic?

[neatomic]

his real name is Brad Schoeppach....(try cockney rhyming that!! haha)

cheers

ps- recently read steve jones (sex pistols) auto bio-lonely boy-- he has some great cockney rhyming slang going on!!..haha

[fasstrack]

his real name is Brad Schoeppach....(try cockney rhyming that!! haha)

cheers

ps- recently read steve jones (sex pistols) auto bio-lonely boy-- he has some great cockney rhyming slang going on!!..haha

[Robertkoa]

That version of 'Something' is so Pure...

He Jazzed it a bit but it is so true to the Original.

His Tone is even perfect...a really Inspired Version .

Using Christian's new ' Understatement Guidelines '-
this is an
'acceptable Version with beyond mediocre Playing...'.