Rock & pop that swings?

[Brooks]

Wanting to add some new tunes on my solo gigs, looking for tunes that swing and/or have jazzy progressions. I am currently playing Moondance, Benny & the Jets, Stray Cat Strut, Goodbye To Romance, Boys Are Back In Town, Fishing Hole, I Know A Little, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, How Many More Times, looking for suggestions along these lines. Thanks.

[RyanM]

Lots of jazz musicians play Stevie Wonder tunes

[mr. beaumont]

Lots of Sabbath tunes swing.

[AllanAllen]

Lots of Sabbath tunes swing.

Have you heard Jazz Sabbath and Kind of Black?

[mr. beaumont]

Have you heard Jazz Sabbath and Kind of Black?

I have! My favorite Sabbath reimagining though has to be Brown Sabbath.

[Brooks]

Lots of Sabbath tunes swing.

Sabs is my all time fave. I do a jazzy medley of Sweet Leaf/Fairies Wear Boots/Into The Void/National Acrobat/Electric Funeral.

[Lionelsax]

[Lionelsax]

[Lionelsax]

[Brooks]

[RyanM]

[Gabor]

(if you are not entirely convinced, the listen the horn impro)

[Gabor]

I think the magic is, that it is so painfully primitive in its root (especially the original version), so when listening your mental and emotional pain reception stimulus threshold *must* be adaptively raise to such a high level (to bear it, and keep listening) on which level normal life's pain is simply filtered out... so you got a similar relief what you got using morphium.

Currently it is not clear which method cause more remaining health damage :-)

[bleakanddivine]

Wanting to add some new tunes on my solo gigs, looking for tunes that swing and/or have jazzy progressions. I am currently playing Moondance, Benny & the Jets, Stray Cat Strut, Goodbye To Romance, Boys Are Back In Town, Fishing Hole, I Know A Little, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, How Many More Times, looking for suggestions along these lines. Thanks.

Some that I play that might suit:

Oh Lori - Alessi Bros
Call Me - Petula Clark
Flintstones Theme
Living In The Past - Jethro Tull
The Look Of Love - Bacharach
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Spooky - Dusty Springfield
A Taste Of Honey - Marlow/Scott
This Masquerade - Leon Russell
Unchain My Heart - Bobby Sharp
You Know That I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
Johnny and Mary - Robert Palmer

[RJVB]

You mean rock and pop tunes, or is there something called "rock & pop"? Methinks there's a lot of rock & roll that swings as much as any swing jazz tune and as to pop ... I've always considered that a generic term for any form of popular music that can be found on the usual hit charts, disco included.

But ... the Beatles, swinging?

[bleakanddivine]

But ... the Beatles, swinging?

Honey Pie works great as a swinging song.

[eh6794-2.0]

A lot of Grateful Dead. A good Scarlett Begonias is an example of great swing. Some of the best swing comes from the early 70s when Mickey is NOT dual drumming.

[Vihar]

Any, when the drummer is too stoned to keep it tight.

[Perdido]

[Webby]

"Moondance" by Van Morrison, "the Lovecats" by the Cure and "Tainted Love" are the first that I could think of.

[Lionelsax]

I had played the bass for a couple of years in a band that covered every kind of song but in a jazzy style, you can play whatever you want.
The song is not so important.