Modern pop tunes you'd like to hear as jazz

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Yes - I know he did the arrangements for an album by Syl Johnson.

MG

[ghost of miles]

I heard Brad Mehldau cover Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" a week ago in Rotterdam.

Lea DeLaria did a good vocal cover of this on DOUBLE STANDARDS a year or two back.

[Jazz Kat]

Phill Woods- Ooops I did it again.

[Johnny E]

I've always wanted Reptet to do a version of the Beatles Savoy Truffle.

I also think Lather by the Jefferson Airplane would make a nice ballad - nose solo remains played by a nose of course...maybe the trombone players'?

And the Pixies Wave of Multilation would make a great thumper.

[BruceH]

I recently heard Stanley Turrentine do a nice version of "Can't Buy Me Love."

I'd like to hear "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" as done by, oh, Booker Ervin.

And Fagin's "I.G.Y" done by Sonny Rollins.

And "King of America" done by Benny Golson.

Obviously, one could keep this up forever, but that's enough for now.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

bullshit sonny didnt cover IGY- r u joking man? but seriously my friend joe played a sweet cover of that macy gray single on the A100 last time i saw him

[BruceH]

Talking Heads: Pulled Up, transformed into some edgy bop would be very cool.

Nice one.

[BruceH]

bullshit sonny didnt cover IGY- r u joking man?

I'd like to hear it. Take time to read the title of the thread.

[Kalo]

bullshit sonny didnt cover IGY- r u joking man?

I'd like to hear it. Take time to read the title of the thread.

Man's a FUNKATEER! Dig what he say.

I'd love to hear Bud Shank's version of Fountains of Wayne's "It Must Be Summer."

How about Outkast's "Bombs over Baghdad" as interpreted by Sonny Rollins?

[Kalo]

Wayne Shorter playing Outkast's "Ms. Jackson."

[Kalo]

Dave Douglas plays the Elvis Costello Songbook.

[Kalo]

Steven Bernstein and Sex Mob - Nuggets

[Kalo]

Fred Hersch plays Joni Mitchell.

(I heard him play her "My Old Man" and it was the highlight of the set. He acknowledges her as a gateway to becoming a jazz player.)

[BruceH]

If Bud Shank could do soundtracks to surf movies so well, then yeah, "It Must Be Summer" seems like a natural. (Though I'd personally like to hear Art Pepper do it. If you could somehow reincarnate Art Pepper.)

[ep1str0phy]

And "King of America" done by Benny Golson.

That's an astonishingly good call that hadn't even crossed my mind. Costello's all over this thread--a master of melody, even at his less complex; there's a treasure-trove of material to be had there.

-Lonnie Smith did the Beck songbook not too long ago, right? There's some excellent material in the B-sides(e.g., 'Totally Confused,' 'Brother') that a talented improviser could make hay with.

-And Jack Bruce's back catalogue--all of it.