This is some funny stuff. The true history of Black Sabbath's malfeasance in stealing the spotlight from pre-eminent jazz trio, Jazz Sabbath. Not too far off Spinal Tap.
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Jazz Sabbath Documentary.
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This is some funny stuff. The true history of Black Sabbath's malfeasance in stealing the spotlight from pre-eminent jazz trio, Jazz Sabbath. Not too far off Spinal Tap.
Good stuff.
I've listened to some of the Sabbath cover tunes and thought that they were pretty good. The bass lines in some could have been morphed into better walking lines here and there rather than repetitive cycles, but overall, pretty cool. I've experimented with a jazzy version of War Pigs a few years ago, but never really got anywhere on my own (the band was not really into the idea). I might re-approach the notion, now that I've got enough instruments at the house to put together everything in the absence of a collaborative effort. I can think of more than a few tunes by other bands that would sound sweet with a similar treatment as an alternative to the "funk version" of classic rock standards.
I've been really digging what Brown Sabbath has been doing with that catalog.
Cool stuff, yeah these guys have been doing a salute for a while.
Casualties of Jazz kind of ties it all together lol.
Casualties of Jazz kind of ties it all together lol.
A typical case of "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree". Adam Wakeman inherited not only his dad's musical talents, but also his wicked sense of humour! 
I've been really digging what Brown Sabbath has been doing with that catalog.
Beat me to it! Brownout is a killer band on their own, and those Brown Sabbath recording are great!
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A typical case of "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree". Adam Wakeman inherited not only his dad's musical talents, but also his wicked sense of humour!
It was all I could do to keep from waking up Mrs.Fingers laughing at that. (I would make a similar joke to Mr.Wakeman but it was get me in trouble.)
Thats funny! I wonder if Adam Wakeman is Rick Wakemans son?
My bet is yes.
My bet is yes.
Bill Ward is a very jazzy drummer; if you listen to especially the early Sabbath, there's a lot of swing to it.
It can also be done just with keys and drums. Especially when the drummer can deliver the savage performance of Brian Viglione.
devnulljp
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See now, I played in a jazz quartet for a few years and kept trying to get them to do odd covers, like Sabbath, Soundgarden, RATM, White Stripes, but they were all too traditional and were having none of it. We could have been youtube stars I tells ya.
As far as I'm concerned, classic rock is old enough to have standards and what is jazz if not making use of well known standards in inventive contexts. The only real difference I see is that the standards used by the earlier jazz guys had already exited their copyrights, whereas the classic rock sorts are holding onto whatever they can for as long as they can and then selling to to holding companies in the end.
Copyrights issues aside, judging from my limited personal experience I have the impression that jazz musicians are rather conservative when it comes to venturing into other genres, even just for fun. Despite the fact that jazz is supposed to presuppose a certain open-mindedness.
devnulljp
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That was my argument too, but a lot of people get very rigid about what's 'allowed' -- I imagine Charlie Parker ran into that a lot too but he just kept on doing it anyway
