FEWtrio is Paul Eldridge on piano, Julie Walkington on double bass and Julian Fenton on drums, who’ve either known each other, or known of each other for a decade or more, and in 2015 found themselves jamming and playing together. Following a year-long residency at Black and Blue in Waterloo, which helped the band develop and distill their ideas, they’ve now started recording covers of songs from David Bowie, The Beatles, Kate Bush, Queen, ELO, Radiohead and The Beach Boys. Smells Like Teen Spirit was one of the first tracks completed, with more coming to their YouTube channel soon.
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FEWtrio's cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" review by Fresh on the Net's Steve Harris
Creating a jazz cover of an iconic rock song — and not just any iconic rock song, but Generation X’s MOST SACRED iconic rock song — needs careful handling. Get it wrong and it’ll end up in Mike Flowers Pops territory. Get it right, and you’ve got FEWtrio’s cover of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.
It may not smell quite so much like teen spirit now, more bourbon on the rocks, but it really showcases the free-flowing melody and structure of a track that originally, to some people’s ears, may have sounded like a right old racket. I also like that — after they’ve paid homage — they then go off and do their own thing, including a fittingly ominous-sounding outro.
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Creating a jazz cover of an iconic rock song — and not just any iconic rock song, but Generation X’s MOST SACRED iconic rock song — needs careful handling. Get it wrong and it’ll end up in Mike Flowers Pops territory. Get it right, and you’ve got FEWtrio’s cover of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.
It may not smell quite so much like teen spirit now, more bourbon on the rocks, but it really showcases the free-flowing melody and structure of a track that originally, to some people’s ears, may have sounded like a right old racket. I also like that — after they’ve paid homage — they then go off and do their own thing, including a fittingly ominous-sounding outro.
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