Maynard Ferguson's version of Birdland

[Twed]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idGvKFbYgI4

There you go

[wosl]

Vince Guaraldi - Woodstock's Dream ->-> this way.

[famethrowa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idGvKFbYgI4

There you go

Obviously the best version. Fair dos, Weather Report wrote it, but their version is insufferably weedy with some very "nice" 70's synths.

[Bennett Brauer]

Vince Guaraldi - Woodstock's Dream ->-> this way.

Birdland was what my immediate thought was when I first heard it, but I'm not sure Zawinul lifted it deliberately, it's not that similar. It is great though.
(As someone says in the comments, the actual title is Snoopy and Woodstock, not Woodstock's Dream. Most of the 15 tracks listed on the CD are wrongly placed.)

[Bennett Brauer]

Obviously the best version. Fair dos, Weather Report wrote it, but their version is insufferably weedy with some very "nice" 70's synths.

Interesting though that he's pretty faithful to Zawinul's improvised ARP (?) solo at the end, just like Janis Siegel was with Jon Hendricks' new lyrics in Manhattan Transfer's version.

[Twed]

Vince Guaraldi - Woodstock's Dream ->-> this way.

Fuck!

[wosl]

[T]he actual title is Snoopy and Woodstock, not Woodstock's Dream. Most of the 15 tracks listed on the CD are wrongly placed.

Ta.  I only know it from the Peanuts animations, so was just matching the tune in my head to what was on YT before nipping back here with a link; I didn't read the comments.  Woodstock being a bird was the other dippy connection, on the basis that this might develop into a baton-passing type thread.

[The Boston Crab]

I love Birdland and never heard this version. Absolutely stellar. I love the drums on here, too. Really tough.

[Twed]

It's very joyful. Sounds like it should be on the soundtrack of the last ever Mario game.

[Twed]

Here's the true original: https://youtu.be/4KY0_NGvQ_g?t=14

[Twed]

"Can't you see we're living on an asteroid in outer-space?"

Can you REALLY not see that? Have you not noticed that we are stranded on a rock so fucking tiny that you could send a cumshot over the horizon with a little effort? Do you not wonder why it is that when you fart you first detect it from behind due to it charting a Magellan-like circumnavigation of this rock? You are the oblivious heir to the manifest space-fuckery of interstellar agriculture Hubert, and I hate you.

[PlanktonSideburns]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idGvKFbYgI4

There you go

holy fuck that brass section!