Jazz/Swing
 

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!

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.

Interesting that could work actually.

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

Ummm....

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

I'm thinking Dead Ringer might work. ..

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

:twisted: Rock can swing lol

YouTube Video

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:

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...

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

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!

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