Recent cover of Alpha and Omega by famous jazz act

Donny McCaslin is one of the top young tenor saxophonists on the scene and I've liked him for a while. When I saw that his album that came about about a month ago had Alpha and Omega on it, I blew my beans.

Here it is:

By the way, do you think BoC themselves end up hearing stuff like this? Would Donny McCaslin had to have gotten permssion from them?

Sweet! I thought there were two songs playing at once about half way through there... I like what the drummer is doing throughout.

Yeah i'm sure you need permission to put it on a release..

Interesting cover; however, a large portion of my enjoyment of 'Alpha and Omega' comes from the sheer amount that is going on in the sonic periphery; details which are largely absent from this cover.

My sometimes-teacher Mark Guiliana plays drums on this.

He has a tendency to bring it.

the intro is very nice then lost interest

  On 11/8/2012 at 6:31 PM, david said:

the intro is very nice then lost interest

  On 11/8/2012 at 6:04 AM, minorsix said:

Would Donny McCaslin had to have gotten permssion from them?

YES

  On 11/8/2012 at 6:12 PM, LimpyLoo said:

My sometimes-teacher Mark Guiliana plays drums on this.

 

 

He has a tendency to bring it.

You take lessons from him?

They had a good idea but then took it in a very stupid direction.

i also prefer the first section. the wind parts are awesome but the lack of subtlety in the drums and (especially) the bass is jarring.

Way better than this imo,

Yeah honestly I was a bit disappointed with it myself. But there is still a lot of excitement over a group of some of my favorite jazz musicians even attempting to make a cover of one of my favorite BoC tunes.

Of all the non-electronic BoC covers I've heard, this one of Roygbiv is the best (also jazz): http://worldworld.bandcamp.com/track/roygbiv

  On 11/10/2012 at 6:03 AM, dirkg said:

Way better than this imo,

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mjPcJYx0uI&feature=share&list=UU8Jxd-ne8AGnLCC4neokkLw

Nice try, it comes together once the the picked guitar is introduced... They need to mic those drums better though...

  On 11/10/2012 at 6:03 AM, dirkg said:

Way better than this imo,

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mjPcJYx0uI&feature=share&list=UU8Jxd-ne8AGnLCC4neokkLw

I really enjoyed that.

  On 11/10/2012 at 11:52 PM, minorsix said:

Of all the non-electronic BoC covers I've heard, this one of Roygbiv is the best (also jazz): http://worldworld.bandcamp.com/track/roygbiv

Best cover in this thread.

  On 11/10/2012 at 11:52 PM, minorsix said:

Yeah honestly I was a bit disappointed with it myself. But there is still a lot of excitement over a group of some of my favorite jazz musicians even attempting to make a cover of one of my favorite BoC tunes.

 

Of all the non-electronic BoC covers I've heard, this one of Roygbiv is the best (also jazz): http://worldworld.ba...m/track/roygbiv

great cover, love the double-bass

the fact that people still make covers of electronic music completely baffles me... the whole reason we like it is that you CAN'T "play" it. It's all about timbre and precise exact rhythm... when you lose those two things... it's just lame.

  On 12/5/2012 at 10:21 PM, dr lopez said:

the fact that people still make covers of electronic music completely baffles me... the whole reason we like it is that you CAN'T "play" it. It's all about timbre and precise exact rhythm... when you lose those two things... it's just lame.

You telling me you don't dig the sense of melody in any electronic artist you enjoy?