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The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down



The Doors - Riders On The Storm 1971



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Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)



The Creation - Making Time (1966)
 
Here are three jazz greats, "President" Lester Young, guitarist Barney Kessel, and pianist Oscar Peterson (with his trio), utterly demolishing the old cornball standard, "Tea for Two", and reconstructing it as a swinging bebop number. Why is Lester called "The President"? His jazz colleagues proclaimed him The President of the Saxophone. If you listen, you'll understand why!

 
Here are three jazz greats, "President" Lester Young, guitarist Barney Kessel, and pianist Oscar Peterson (with his trio), utterly demolishing the old cornball standard, "Tea for Two", and reconstructing it as a swinging bebop number. Why is Lester called "The President"? His jazz colleagues proclaimed him The President of the Saxophone. If you listen, you'll understand why!
Pretty hard to beat that! Interestingly, classical Russian composer, Dimitri Shostakovich, had a go at it as well:

After Shostakovich and Nikolai Malko had listened to an old 78rpm disc of Vincent Youman's "Tea for Two" in 1927, Malko bet Dmitri 100 roubles that he couldn't come up with an orchestration of the song, entirely from memory, in less than an hour. Shostakovich went into the next room and returned 45 minutes later, having made his own orchestration, and duly won the bet. In its new guise, the piece was called 'Tahiti Trot'.

But in the meantime, here's Art Tatum's take on it- three times, in 1933, 1939 and 1953.

 
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