You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - 4 Tunes to Absolutely NEVER Ask a Serious Jazz Musician to Play - #2

Episode Date: January 1, 2019

On the first episode of 2019, Peter and Adam discuss their most hated tune requests at gigs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey, Peter, I'd like to make a request. Yes, please. Did you play Take 5 for me, please? That would be a negatory. I'm Adam Menace. And I'm Peter Martin. You're listening to the You'll Hear Podcast. Daily Jazz advice coming at you in 2019.

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Let's not go crazy. The musk is building on itself. That's right. Big shout to Old Spies Musk. All right, what do we got today? So today we're talking about four tunes to absolutely never ask a serious jazz musician to play. All right. This is one of our longer titles, too.

Yeah, and a shorter episode. No, so serious jazz musician sounds a little, yeah. But these are things that if you want to annoy a jazz musician, your local jazz musician, you should request this tune on a gig. So we really could have two different, we could have an alternate fax title for tunes to annoy a serious jazz musician, which would be exactly the same as this, right? Yeah, exactly right. What do we have for number one? Number one is a classic, and this isn't just for jazz musicians, this is for all musicians. We hear it like once a week, and it's Free Bird.

Free Bird. Someone shouts Free Bird from the back one more time. I'm going back to 2018. Well, there's, I mean, there's the whole tune and the wanting to hear it. But then I think at this point, it's just the shouting of Freedbert. Like, there's a whole generation that's shouting it doesn't even know what it is. Yeah, it's really odd. It's like more cowbell.

But like the guy who shouts Freebird thinks he's funny still after all this time. Yeah. That's crazy. Anyway, what's number two? Come on, it's 2019. Yeah. The 80s called. They want their tune back.

Yeah. Shout like Beat it. Exactly. Or thriller. Exactly. Yeah. All right. Beat it might be taken forward.

Hey, beat it, buddy. Be it! Okay. So number two, we've got In the Mood. In the mood, the Glenn Miller classic. Is it a classic though? I guess it is.

Classique. It's definitely a classic. I used to get this requested a lot more than I do lately. But back in the day, playing more like private gigs where maybe a... Well, a lot of those people

that wanted to hear it are dead now. That's why you're not getting it. No, that is true. No, that is true. They didn't want to put a button on it, but... So number two is in the mood. And that might be actually expiring

because a lot of people who requested are expired well the thing is i remember doing this tune i remember getting a gig when we're in high school um and we called we needed a bass player because our regular we had a little high school band now we might have even been in middle school so we were young young and dumb it was a great match but we called jeff anderson yeah the great jeff anerson bassist and multi instrumentalist because we heard he was a good bass player and he was like an adult I mean not like he was in his 20s or something I can't believe he came to play with him he's super nice we get to the gig it turns out the people that hired us it was like a 50 year high school reunion oh and so the people like are asking for all these tunes that we didn't know any of the

classics from the 40s you know trying to play like this is for Albert and stuff yeah exactly and Jeff was had a little more experience than us so he's like naming tunes we still didn't know him so it turned out in the mood was the only one we kind of knew or he's like follow me from the base. So we played In the Mood all night and they loved it and I think they were forgetting each time that we were repeating it

but they kind of saved us but don't ask for it again. Yeah. And you know what? So the Baby Boomer version of In the Mood is our number three and that's Moon Dance. Van Morrison's Moon Dance gets requested

and... A tempo, that vibe. It's not a jazz tune. It's a jazz-e. It's jazee in the worst possible sense. I mean, I actually really like Van Morrison some of his albums but I do not like moon dance and I think it's a generational

thing. I don't know why. Yeah, but I mean, I think that for people that find themselves sort of sophisticated, but really not liking jazz, like that's jazz to them or jazzy. Yeah, agreed. Yeah. All right. Well, number four, and we do have an abbreviated list because we're both hungry for lunch today. And hungover from last night.

That's right, because we're in 2019 now. Is when the saints come marching in. When the saints go marching in? Or come, or, yeah, I don't know. You hate it so much. You've never even learned the proper time. And the thing is, I actually don't hate it, but just actually not that bad. No, no, no, no.

And I mean, there's a whole way to do it with New Orleans. I just don't want to play it with people that don't know the proper time to play and the proper way to play it. Does that sound jazz? That sounds New Orleans jazz, please, for you right there. That is. Well, isn't it the preservation hall that have like, it's like a request $10, win the Saints, $50 or something like that? Yeah, it's just like what people's expectation and their willingness to jump in with like a rag or an umbrella to dance along with it. That's the main reason I don't want to play it.

Don't ask for it because you think it's a participatory thing. And it is that the right place. place, maybe a preservation hall or whatever, and the right group. 50 bucks later, maybe? So that's our little list today. I just thought it would be fun. Well, let's recap, because we're going to cross all our T's because it's the new year here. I got you.

Number one is Freebird. Number two is In the Mood. Number three is Moon Dance. And our number four tune to absolutely never ask a jazz musician to play is when the Saints go marching in. I love the way you said those four. It's like you're announcing the set list to just the worst gig ever. All right, guys. Let's gather around.

All right. Fellas, we're going to start with Freebird. Then we're going to hit him within the mood. And then we're going to take them out. Then we're going to invite our vocalists up for Win the Saints. It's like literally the worst set list ever. That's so awesome. Yeah.

Well, we want to welcome everybody, as we said to 2019. We're excited to be here on season three, episode number two. Thank you guys so much for taking the journey with us. Big shout out to YouTube. We're at. That's right. We invite you to join us. Have you been joining in the comments there?

I haven't seen you there. I've been there, man. I'm going to start trolling you in the comments. That'll get you to come in. It actually would probably get me to come in and defend myself a little bit. Hey, guys, it's 2019. Come and troll at Adam. No.

No. Yes. Yeah, do it. Do it. All right. You'll hear it. And that's whether or not you're watching on YouTube or not. You join us there.

You can go to you'll hear it.com. We want some new comments and requests there. Yeah. Maybe leave us a speak pipe because we always enjoy those. You know, it's 2019, Pete. Should we up our Star Game? I think we should. wonder, are we going to up our handling of the...

You've been touching that microphone a lot today. I don't know if that's the proper usage there. I'm trying to get comfortable. But you know, you don't have to be right upon it. It's all good. Yeah. Now, what do you talk about? Elpar's Star Games?

So we've been seven stars for a while since we started this podcast. Of course. We average seven stars. Nine stars for 2019? Oh, should we... It is 2019. Do we skip ahead one? No, let's stay with the seven because we're still having a problem with the Apple system.

I've got a support ticket in with, um, what's the guy's name? Tim Cook. I emailed him. Tim at Apple.com and I started a support ticket. Please, we have listeners that want to give us seven stars, Mr. Cook, but your system only allows five. What should I do? So I should continue to manually tell them to write seven stars, but give us five stars or are you working on the problem? Yeah, I mean, it's overwhelming probably at this point for our podcast.

Yeah. So get on an apple. That's right. You'll hear it.