Django Bates with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band have released a jazz version of 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'
Benjamin Gibbard has released his cover album of Teenage Fanclub's 1991 'Bandwagonesque' and Django Bates has managed a jazz makeover of 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'
CHRIS MUGAN
Wednesday 26 July 2017 10:39 BST
It is one of the most profound, and occasionally controversial, gestures of respect from one musical act to another – covering not just a favourite number, but an entire album. The latest comes from Death Cab For Cutie bandleader Benjamin Gibbard, who has delved back to his formative teen years by taking on Teenage Fanclub's acclaimed 1991 release Bandwagonesque.
It follows in the wake of a more tangential tribute, British jazz artist Django Bates's collaboration with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band to mark the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The appearance of both projects suggest a revival of the whole-album tribute after the wrong turn that was Ryan Adams's quickfire homage to Taylor Swift's 1989.
Then again, the track-by-track tribute has always had a chequered history. One of the earliest and least impressive attempts comes from Booker T and The MGs' horribly bland appraisal of the Fab Fours' Abbey Road. The Stax studio band are best known for such tight grooves as "Green Onions" and playing behind the likes of Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding. Their cover album McLemore Avenue, though, is a limp, essentially easy listening, effort that pales in comparison to more committed soulful takes, namely Nina Simone's Here Comes The Sun, but also The Supremes' cool Come Together.
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