Jazz/Swing

[mikeloaf]

I met this guy last year called Robin. He is a really great (to my ears!) Jazz/Swing band leader. He does 6/7 piece Jazz/Swing and was interested in me as a Meat Loaf fan loving his style of music! Anyway we were talking at a recent London gig of his and I said I'd find him a Meat song that he could put in his set that would suit the 20's/30's Jazz era...They don't have a guitarist! Anyone got any ideas!

[Wario]

Masculine with Jazz Trumpets instead of guitars..... omgggggg.


But Seriously, theres really nothing "Jazz/swing" in the meat catalogue or anything that would sound good with that kind of arrangement except maybe Good Girls Go To Heaven.

[mikeloaf]

Interesting that could work actually.

[mikeloaf]

What about It Just Won't Quit from Bat II?

[Dave]

Ummm....

Stylistically a lot of Paradise is dripping with swing/jitterbug emotions.

[PanicLord]

I'm thinking Dead Ringer might work. ..

[GDW]

What about Do It or Break It???:-):??::!::lol:

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: Rock can swing lol

TsS811o21-k

Call me mad (people often do :nuts: ) but for some reason a swing version of Piece Of The Action has popped into my head :wtf:

[Mr. Happy]

You could really make an argument for any song if you tried hard enough. If a muso is clever enough, they can probably do any song in just about anyway they want. There used to be a girl on YouTube who did an awesome version of Peel Out, but she did it as a jazz ballad with just piano and voice, it was incredible. I can't seem to find it now to show off, though. I have a whole heap of videos marked as 'deleted' in my favourites list and I suspect it's one of those.

I reckon Living on the Outside would be interesting (do it with a burlesque theme!), but...

maybe Good Girls Go To Heaven.

...gets my vote. I reckon this would kick ass :up:

[mikeloaf]

I will certainly suggest Good Girls. The thing is it really needs to be something which would have worked in the 20/30s, so not sure! More suggestions please!

[duke knooby]

You could really make an argument for any song if you tried hard enough. If a muso is clever enough, they can probably do any song in just about anyway they want.

chsib, some amazing covers of songs in a completely different style to the originals out there