Date:	09-Feb-2000 11:06:55
From:	Tate (Tate01@aol.com)
	"Norwegian Wood", on Herbie Hancock's "New Standard" CD

 

Date:	09-Feb-2000 13:17:59
From:	Marcus
	Dave Douglas' versions of 3 Joni Mitchell songs on "Moving Portrait", but I don't know the originals. Joshua Redman also covers a Joni Mitchell song well on "Tilmeess Tales". Most other pop covers I know tend to be a bit dull as they're played straight with hardly any solos.

 

Date:	12-Feb-2000 10:57:19
From:	Zimbo
	Brad Mehldau plays a wonderful version of the McCartney & Lennon tune "Blackbird" on his "Art of the Trio" volume one. He doesn't just play the melody and stay close to shore - great performance. It's an interesting tune. I also heard a bluegrass version of the tune done by the great singer/fiddler Alison Krauss and it worked. It's becoming a minor bluegrass classic. I also heard an Irish band do a version but can't remember the specifics right now. Anyway, the tune does get around. Check out Mehldau's version.

 

Date:	14-Feb-2000 12:07:59
From:	Guido Schwellnus (Guido_Schwellnus@gmx.de)
	I prefer the classics: the famous Miles Davis adaptions of Cindy Lauper's "Time after Time" and Michael Jackson's "Human nature" on the "You're under Arrest"-album from 1985. But Hancock's "New Standards" are great, too, especially the Abdullah-Ibrahim-like version of Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street".

 

Date:	19-Feb-2000 11:16:04
From:	Wilbur
	I've always enjoyed the bootleg Miles Davis version of "In A Goda Da Vida" the old Iron Butterfly classic. Being that it was a live recording, the sound could have been better. Rumor has it there might be a remastered version of this all I.B. concert. We can only hope.

 

Date:	20-Feb-2000 00:25:40
From:	Tth Catman
	Winchester Cathedral-Clark Terry

 

Date:	21-Feb-2000 10:38:06
From:	Nigey Lennon
	The late '70s Woody Herman album, "Chick, Donald, Walter and Woodrow," on which Herman's big band played great versions of several Steely Dan songs.

 

Date:	02-Mar-2000 13:11:40
From:	Kevin
	Don Byron's cover of the Beatles' "I'll Follow the Sun" Bill Frisell's cover of Madonna's "Live to Tell"

 

Date:	23-Mar-2000 09:57:29
From:	Judson Maynard (jazzbo112aol.com)
	The Hoops McCann Band plays the music of Steely Dan.

 

Date:	04-Apr-2000 03:59:49
From:	Paul Abella (Pabella3@aol.com)
	A few of them -- Jazz Crusaders version of Eleanor Rigby. the Mehldau version of Blackbird mentioned earlier, but also his take on Exit Music is a monster on its own. Charlie Hunter's take on You Keep Me Hangin On Don Bennett (Chicago guy) does some amazing stuff on The Look of Love Another Chicagoan, joan Collaso did a real nice version of Moondance. not a jazz cover, but a pretty jazzy tune done by a pop artist: Joni Mitchell's Dry Cleaner from Des Moines. Keep Your Ears Open, Paul

 

Date:	22-May-2000 10:45:37
From:	Michael Leahy (wstuff@skynet.be)
	The European outfit "l'Ame des poêtes" (poets' soul) have a pretty perverse series running. They have been recording classics of French chanson - the good and the dodgy - as jazz workouts. It's interesting if you know the originals, which were all major hits of their day. They recpord for the Igloo label.

 

Date:	28-May-2000 13:58:03
From:	Diron
	Kenny Garrett's take of "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack Don Braden-"Creepin'" by Stevie Wonder Vincent Herring's album "Change the World" feat. Billy Joel hits

 

Date:	29-Jun-2000 16:06:07
From:	Fabio
	Blackbird - Jaco Pastorius

 

Date:	10-Aug-2000 22:19:25
From:	Ignatz Welk
	JoAnne Brackeen has a beautiful version of the Lennon & McCartney classic "Michelle" on her very recent solo piano recording "Popsicle Illusion." Note for you youngsters: John Lennon was one of Beatles. That band was also the band Paul McCartney was in before he formed Wings. "Michelle" was recorded on their album "Rubber Soul." The Beatles were a very good band - much better than Wings.

 

Date:	12-Aug-2000 11:54:44
From:	Toby
	Ignatz: Your momma..........

 

Date:	29-Aug-2000 21:25:43
From:	Max DeLucas
	Archie Shepp's rendition of the Sammy Davis Jr. Classic "The Candyman" is an post-avant garde updating of Moose the Mooche. Cecil Taylor's " ballad medley" of "Little Green Apples" and "Feelings" These are hard to find. Persist. They are horizon-widening performances. Also: Ginger Baker's extended drum solo on the "funny farm" song. "They're coming to take me away, Hah Hah!"

 

Date:	01-Nov-2000 18:55:28
From:	SC
	Cahrlie Hunter's "Come as you are" Brad Melhdau's "Exit Music"

 

Date:	27-Mar-2001 16:13:29
From:	Joel Glassman
	Theres a nice version of Time After Time on Bireli Lagrene's recent duet CD

 

Date:	01-May-2001 17:36:12
From:	Michael Heller (lazycake@hotmail.com)
	Cannonball Adderley playing the main theme from Fiddler on the Roof (ok, well it was pop once.) Also Miles doing Michael Jackson's Human Nature on the Live Around the World CD (dig Kenny Garretts solo!) and Bobby NcFerrin Doing the Beatle's 'Blackbird' on 'The Voice.' Michael Heller

 

Date:	11-Jun-2001 12:24:40
From:	Axel Melhardt (jazzland@chello.at)
	Way back in the 60-ies I got the album "The Poll Winners Ride Again - Contemporary C 3556" and the 2nd track of Side 1 was "Volare - Nel Blue, Dipinto Di Blue", a pop song you heard then in central Europa 20 times a day on all radiostations. What Barney Kessel, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne did with this simple melody shows the whole spirit of jazz. It is not important what you play but how you play it. A masterpiece - even for these geniuses.

 

Date:	26-Aug-2001 14:02:56
From:	Rusty Cashman (rcashman@correlant.com)
	Since I haven't seen it in this thread, I will put forth an obvious nominee. Coltrane's version of My Favorite Things. Not what you would call an obscure gem, but some so called "classics" really are.