Junior’s Swamp Sauce - Gary Melvin Remix
Check out this remix Gary put together for one of the tracks off my latest album! If you want to take a stab at a remix, you can download all the isolated parts in the Junior’s Swamp Sauce Remix Kit over at my website.
Also, be sure to check out Gary’s original music! He’s not really a remixer, just an all around musical badass.
“Ring of Life” by Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau
from Metheny Mehldau
“Minnie” by Miles Davis
remastered for The Complete On The Corner Sessions
Allow this little gem to make sexy time with your ear drums.
“If Ever I Would Leave You” by Stan Getz
from Reflections
Classic jazz album cover, pretty much perfect for the sound of this record.
“I Want To Talk About You” by John Coltrane
from Live at Birdland
Been on a ‘Trane kick lately (though it’s rare that I wouldn’t want to listen to this).
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by John Scofield
originally by the Rolling Stones
from This Meets That
“Get Out Of My Life Woman” by Grassella Oliphant
from the heavily sampled The Grass Is Greener
written by Allen Toussaint
Featuring Clark Terry (trumpet), Grant Green (guitar), John Patton (organ), Harold Ousley (tenor), Major Holley (bass), and Oliphant on drums.
“Cells Planets” by Chanticleer
from their upcoming album, Out Of This World
originally by Little Grey Girlfriend
written by Erika Lloyd, arranged by Vince Peterson
Do yourself a favor and listen to this track. I’m a little biased because Erika is a good friend and I joined Little Grey Girlfriend earlier this year, but this recording is simply beautiful. Chanticleer is an all male a cappella group. What you’re hearing is 12 voices. That’s it.
The song was the title track off LGG’s first full length album from 2008. Vince Peterson is a friend and huge fan of the group, and when given the opportunity to arrange a song for Chanticleer’s new tour, he chose this song. Erika is a classically trained singer and I think much of her music could lend itself well to choral arrangements, but Vince really did an amazing job with this song.
“Freddie Freeloader” by Wes Montgomery
originally by Miles Davis
from Portrait of Wes
When I was 13 years old and wanted to start playing jazz guitar, somebody told me to go buy some Wes Montgomery albums. That did the trick.
“Say Hello 2 Heaven” by Temple of the Dog
from their 1991 self-titled release.
Hard to believe this album is almost 20 years old. It has a somewhat dated Seattle grunge rock sound to it (probably because these guys invented that sound), but most of these songs are timeless and the performances are incredible. Chris Cornell would make the alphabet song rock.
“Revolution” by Soulive
originally by The Beatles
from Rubber Soulive
Every review I’ve seen of this album mentions Booker T & The MG’s McLemore Avenue—a similar Memphis soul organ trio parody of Abbey Road recorded in 1970. The comparison between Soulive and Booker T & The MG’s is completely warranted, but not completely fair to Soulive. Rubber Soulive is a classic Soulive trio album, and their treatment of these songs isn’t unlike the way they cover anyone else (one of my favorites is their take on Stevie Wonder’s “Golden Lady”).
As far as an album of soul-jazz Beatles covers, they do a nice job interpreting these classic songs. They never sound “smooth” yet they never stray too far from the song, like you might expect a band capable of long improvisation to do. There are plenty of typical Soulive backbeats on the album, but for the most part the arrangements are closer to the rock feel Ringo originally recorded.
To me, this is classic Soulive doing their thing over songs we all know. If the songs are sacred to you, then you’re going to hate it as much as you’d hate anybody’s Beatles covers. But if you dig organ trios, I definitely recommend checking this one out.
“Born 100 Years Too Late” by Matt Haden
from A Slow Death & Loneliness
This is a short one, about a minute and a half long, and more than deserving of your time. Matt and I play together in a band called the City Billies—him on banjo and myself with a mandolin, though we’re both guitar players. I recently traded CDs with him and have been listening to his album ad nauseum. If you’re a fan of music that falls somewhere between Johnny Cash and Tom Waits, check this one out on Amazon, iTunes, etc.
