Solar - Check this kid out

[terryc]

Check this kid out on a TRB6..nice tasty jazz from a emo haired kid
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNZR2j-L8R8&feature=related

[tmoney61092]

wow, that's shocking.... all the emo kids i see around play like one note songs
 
~Taylor

[gregduboc]

Taylor, if I may add:
... all the emo kids I see around play like one note songs, and then cry about it....
 
Cool video, hard to see kids these days that can actually play something other than Coldplay.
 
Greg

[tmoney61092]

hahahaha, the add was much appreciated Greg
 
~Taylor

[pace]

So aside from the kid having funny hair and a decent bass what's the point?  
 
Going thru ALL the YouTube vids of people playing this tune kind of pisses me off... I remember choosing it for our ensemble in college, and our instructor (a percussionist) tearing me a new one. I don't think he even knew the tune, but in reading it off the Real Book, he felt I embelished the head too much (hardly)... Needless to say, it was better than half the crap on YT.....  
 
My favorite version is probably on the Metheny/Holland/Haynes album.

[terryc]

well I thought it was a decent rendition by one of the many unknowns in the world.
I don't think it is bad to take a standard and do your own interpretation, we did a jazz version of 'Teenage Kicks' which was originally by The Undertones.
Each to their own I suppose

[tmoney61092]

i agree with taking things and making them your own, the band i'm in plays Bad Moon Rising by CCR and we turned it into an up-beat punkish kind of song, everyone says they love it because there's so much energy and it makes them want to jump around
 
~Taylor