Given sufficient time…

I’m sure I could come up with a jazz cover of a rock song that seems more unlikely than this cover of _Queens of the Stone Age_’s “Hanging Tree”. But it might take a while. Of course I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like it, especially as the saxophone is stating the vocal line in the first verse.

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Update. OK, *maybe* this cover of _Soundgarden_’s “Black Hole Sun”. But I think “Hanging Tree” still wins, just because is a more obscure song.

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Apparently Brad Mehldau is making something of a career of this sort of thing. Here’s him covering _Radiohead_’s “Everything in its right place”. There’s a beautiful moment in it right at 2:18:

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Needless to say, youtube has links to many others.