Thursday, July 13, 2017

An overlooked cover tune XXXII

Check out how Richard "Groove" Holmes tackles "Misty," which Johnny Mathis made famous, on the organ.  Holmes makes it sound as though he wrote the tune and that it was meant to be a slick organ vamp.  If that approach appeals to you, you'll also like the cover I heard yesterday on KDHX.  The People's Key takes a similar, reinterpreting-a-well-known-song-as-a-hot-jazz-track approach with "Fixing A Hole" by The Beatles, and it works every bit as well.