Did anyone noticed this Tim Ries Rolling Stones Project before?
[www.timries.com]

It's new for me. You can listen parts of some songs on the website.
I don't like this jazz-arrangements.



'In the sweet old country...'

Samples are HTW, Satisfaction and WH.
HTW features Chawley on drums and Keefster on guitar; alwas nice. But it sound like a jazz freak is jammin to a Stones outtake.
WH... Not at the Gram Parsons-levels, really.
Satisfaction in jazz version already exists in a splendid version by Charlie Watts Tentet. This is ok, though.
...There are a good bunch of Stones-related people on this sessions: Bernard Fowler (vocals), Darryl Jones (bass e.g. HTW), Lisa Fischer (vocals), Norah Jones [e.g. WH] (vocals and piano).



Pic from Ron Schneider´s site meandtherollingstones.com

I saw Tim Ries last Summer at a jazz festival. He did very nice arrangements of some Stones classics, but also compositions of his own.

This is an update of the webpage, which is online for almost a year now.
The CD was supposed to be released in Japan last summer, and worlwide a bit later if I make no mistake.

Baboon Pro, some of the Stones themselves are part of the projetct : Keith and our favorite all-time jazzlover Charlie.

[doctorstonesblog.blogspot.com]

"HTW features Chawley on drums and Keefster on guitar; alwa(y)s nice."
Chawley & Keefster - unmistakeably C.W and K.R, right?
On the three samples, only Ronnie & Mick are missing.
...I wrote something nice about experiment and new angles etc in a previous, vanished post.
Though I call myself BB (Which - for less Stones-engaged folks - refers to Keefs hotel room name during VL tour) I dont think I like exactly everything he likes in music. And I (by the way) certainly dont like all that Mick has in his record collection! ...In fact me, 41, has been trying for several years to start likin jazz, I´ve borrowed Miles Davis, Coltrane etc etc; but the torch doesnt light...

- More reactions on this Ries-/Stones-project?



Pic from site meandtherollingstones.com

They are not bad, maybe too "sophiticated".
If I were to re-arrange stones stuff in a jazzy fashion I would have (the late, soul influenced) Cannonball Adderley as a point of reference: you need balls even if you add major 7ths!!!

C

Tim's cd "Alternate Side" from 2001 features a jazz version of Moonlight Mile.

Hey, erik, landsman (?), svenske rullstensviking...

Och hur låter den tycker du (and how does is sound, in your opinion?)?

It sounds nice. Very smooth. There is an audio clip on cdnow.com.