The Rolling Stones Project: A Jazz Tribute from Inside the Band

In 2005, saxophonist Tim Ries—a longtime member of the Rolling Stones’ touring band—released The Rolling Stones Project, an album of jazz reinterpretations of Stones classics. What made this tribute unique was that actual Rolling Stones members participated: Charlie Watts played drums, Ron Wood contributed guitar, and even Keith Richards and Mick Jagger made cameo appearances. The project wasn’t a fan-made bootleg but an official collaboration, giving it a legitimacy most tribute albums lack.

Fans largely embraced it as a fresh take, especially given the involvement of the Stones themselves. Jazz pur