Four Interesting Covers [by Lewis Saul]

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A cover song is a new recording of a previously released song that someone else wrote.

So the first two examples don’t really fit that definition — they are more like transformations:

  1. Miles Davis was 19-years-old when he took the bandstand with Charlie Parker and played this solo on the tune Now’s the Time from 1945:

        Now let us travel forward to 1958 when Miles recorded Straight No Chaser. This is Red Garland, playing Miles’s famous solo in block chords.

  2. Let’s listen to Bird playing a solo on Lady Be Good from 1946 …

        And now listen to Eddie Jefferson putting words to the solo from the James Moody album Cookin’ the Blues from 1961. [thanks to Jamie Katz for turning me on to this …]
  3. Whoosh, back to 1930! Duke Ellington’s Rockin’ in Rhythm.

        And now Weather Report’s cover from the 1980 album Night Passage. Listen to how Zawinul & Co. transformed all those big-band sounds into an exciting modern sonic palette.
  4. Ellington again — this time from 1927! East St. Louis Toodle-Oo

        And in the sole track from Steely Dan’s discography without lyrics, we get another amazing modern cover with guitars replacing saxes, from the album Pretzel Logic (1974) — remaining amazingly faithful to the original.

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Author: Lewis Saul

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