the end of jazz

[Joe]

Just to show that good things can come from a relatively "contemporary conservative" approach to jazz as-is and -was, a recommendation for this Criss Cross release by John Ellis...

IT'S YOU I LIKE

Explorations of compositions by Elliott Smith and Fred -- Mr. -- Rogers.

http://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1347.html

[JSngry]

I always wanted to hear Jackie McLean record some of those Mr. Rogers songs, especially that one. Seriously.

[AllenLowe]

Jackie did do a version of Being Green.

[Joe]

I always wanted to hear Jackie McLean record some of those Mr. Rogers songs, especially that one. Seriously.

John Ellis is no Jackie Mac, but he's not trying to be, either. But he knows how to respect these tunes without respecting them too much. And the record just has a really nice -- that's the word; has to be -- vibe to it.

[Mark Stryker]

Jackie did do a version of Being Green.

Yeah -- with Hank Jones, Ron Carter, Tony Williams. But speaking of Sesame Street, I'd like to hear any jazz musician take on this one -- it has a certainly vaudvillian vibe to it.

[JSngry]

Here's the Sesame Street clip I want to know who did the playing on:

And let us not forget: