London Jazz Four

London Jazz Four: Take a New Look at the Beatles

by Ernest Barteldes
September 15, 2005

This Brit quartet made the songs of the Fab Four their own, taking a lot of risk in reinterpreting many timeless classics but also approaching lesser-known Lennon-McCartney tunes (sadly, there are no Harrison compositions on the album). The result is a collection of songs on this disc (originally released in 1967) that sound almost if they were completely new. For instance, “I Feel Fine receives a Bach-like harpsichord riff that repeats itself throughout the track, the rest of the instruments ...