You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - 5 Dope Tracks for This Weekend

Episode Date: December 31, 2020

Peter comes at you with a solo episode today as he shows you some tunes worth checking out.Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.5 Dope Tracks for This Weekend (Listen to them all with our Spotify playlist)Roy Hargrove/Christian McBride - "Frosty the Snowman"Joe Henderson - "Photograph"Christian McBride & Inside Straight - "Dream Train"Ellis & Branford Marsalis - "Stella by Starlight"Herlin Riley - "Borders Without Lines"Thursday's Open Studio Live Events (All Times EST):1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this linkLet us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What's up, everybody, solo edition. I'm Peter Martin. You're listening to the You'll Hear Podcasts. Music advice coming at you. This is the end of 2020. We got a little bonus solo edition of the podcast. I want to give you five dope tracks for this weekend, for you to check out. And this was actually supposed to be last weekend.

So it includes, as you just heard, a little bit of Christmas music. But it's so dope. You can listen to it any weekend. And I thought it would just be fun. Oh, I'm Peter. Martin, by the way, what's happening, everybody? If you're new to the podcast, we just gather here. Usually I have my partner, Adam Manis with me as well, but we just gather and talk about music, talk about jazz, talk about life, how to get better, how to hear better. That's why we call it

the you'll hear it podcast. And, you know, it's the end of the year. It's the end of 2020. I think a year a lot of folks want to just turn the page on and get on to better things in 2021. But we want to celebrate, you know, some wins that we had of this year. We've got a lot of exciting new things coming on the podcast next year. So that's actually starting this week coming up. So be ready for that. And I hope you guys have had a wonderful holiday season no matter where you are, no matter what you celebrate, no matter where you are in the world.

And I hope that you're among loved ones, staying safe, sheltering in place as needed and all of that. But I thought what better way to celebrate the end of the year than just to share five random tracks that I've been listening to. but the thing that connects all these is they're all dope. And you can see a link in the description here wherever you are consuming this podcast to a Spotify playlist that has these for your convenience.

But we're going to start out with what you just heard. We're not going to listen to all of them. We're just going to listen to a little bit. But this first one is Christian McBride and Roy Hargrove, Frosty the Snowman from a record from back in the day called Jazz for Joy. and this is when I think a lot of folks haven't heard and actually I never heard it I remember when they made this record back in the mid

late 90s something like that but it's really cool because when I heard it I was like wait that sounds like Nicholas Payton that doesn't sound like Roy and I was like why it sounds like Roy it turns out it's both of them I couldn't find that confirmed anywhere but I know it is you'll be able to hear it I might even jump in and say when you hear it but here it is Frosty the Snowman that's got to be Mark Whitfield

I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure that's Mark Whitfield hip arrangement, right? Here's Roy. Roy. Roy. That's Roy. Roy. And that was Nick earlier. It's just always so fun to hear, I mean, Nicholas Payton and Roy Hargrove, two of my favorite trumpet players of all the time, back when they were youngins.

And rest in peace. And we miss you, Roy. Just a master that is irreplaceable for sure. But his music lives on. So I recommend this track. stay in the holiday season as we go into the new year. Why not? A little bit of hard swinging 90s style stuff.

And, you know, it's just fun to celebrate music. I mean, you know, there's such a, you know, all these tracks, maybe things that you haven't heard. Maybe you've heard one or two of them. These are a little bit, a little bit off the beaten path. But it just is a reminder to all of us of the depth and the breadth of music available to us. Just within this idiom of jazz. I mean, it's just.

mind-boggling and I love it. I love it. So much joy in there. All right. Next, we're going to listen to Photographia, the wonderful Joe Beam composition. And this is Joe Henderson's version,

Chris McBride, Herbie Hancock. This is from a record of the early, in the mid-90s as well, on Verve as well, called Double Rainbow that was really popular at the time, I think. And for good reason. I don't hear it talked about as much anymore.

but I know some folks know about this, but such a beautiful song, Joe Henderson, just killing it here on Portia. Here we go. He comes in here. I mean, just the way Herbie phrases that

after laying out for Joe Henderson, ooh, I hate to even pull down. Joe Henderson's soul is incredible. The whole thing, Jack Dijanette on drums. But the way that Herbie phrases that and kind of the contrast with that second chorus to playing the melody, the way he's voicing it out.

Ah, phrasing it. Beautiful, beautiful. Highly recommend this, though. Photograph by Antonio Collar, Gillespiem from Joe Henderson's double rainbow. All right. Next, we're going to jump to a record that is Christian McBride,

who we just heard on that last track. Actually, the first three tracks, I just realized these are all Christian McBride is on all three of these. And I didn't even intend that. This is not like Christian McBride's five dope tracks or anything like that. He's just so omnipresent on the scene that that's kind of what happened.

But this is sort of jumping into the 2010s. This was like maybe 2013, 14, something like that from a record that is Christian McBride's group, which is called Inside Straight and still exists to this day and that I'm actually a member of, which is not the reason I had it on here, but that's just kind of what happened. I'm pulling it up here. This is dream training. I was thinking about this because I was looking through Christians. I love Christian's tunes.

I love his bands. I love his whole thing. And I was like, okay, he's got some tunes that a lot of people love and know. But even the ones that, like, nobody's really heard that much or we haven't even played that much are really dope. And I thought that this one just sort of was a good representation of this band in case you hadn't heard us before. So this is Dreamtrain from a great record called People Music on the Mac Avenue label.

Which is, here it is. That's Warren Wolf at the Vibe. Steve Wilson, the saxophone car. Alan, the drums, of course, Christian McBride, the bass, Peter Martin at the piano. As a fun one, you know, just some really, a really tight-knit group just swinging out. And I love Christian's concept and his compositions, especially for this group, for all of his groups. It's just such a astute combination of tradition and modern, you know, in such a way that you can't even tell what one starts and the other picks up. So it's just a lot of fun, progressive, modern jazz, whatever you want to.

call it. I hate labels. Not a big label guy, but there you go. Dreamtrain. So this next track, we're on number four now of the five dope tracks for this weekend for you to explore at your leisure. Reminded, we have a link to the Spotify playlist before. And this one is probably the kind of, I mean, it's a ballad, it's really deep. I love this track. I've been listening to this for years, years. I can't believe how old this record is. I can't even remember. This is also one from the, I guess, late, very late 90s, maybe around 2000. But it's just such a beautiful reading of this composition.

And we're not going to have time to go deep into it, but it'll give you a flavor. Please seek it out if you're enjoying it. This is the beautiful ballad, Victor Young, Stella by Starlight. And this is Bramford Marsalis, saxophone and Ellis Marcellus at the piano from their album on Columbia called Loved Ones. So let's check it out.

It actually starts. It's just kind of on the out. Beautiful. Such a patient and soulful reading of this tune. And, you know, an incredible piano sound that really captures Ellis Marcellus's touch and his phrasing and the nuances that he had. I enjoyed him so many times live over the years and learned so much for him. So that's great. Stella by Starlight, Ellis Marcellus and Brandt from Marcellus on loved ones.

And for our final track, this is what I may have shared for the astute listeners of the You'll Hearer podcast over the last couple years. Maybe right when it came out. I think this is from 2019. But the thing about this tune and this track, this is just about the energy and of one of my favorite musicians and people. And that's the great Hurling Riley, drummer from New Orleans. And, you know, I love Hurling so much. I love his music so much. Those of you that have heard him,

and are familiar with him, probably feel the same way. But I was so excited. He's had some great records over the years. He's been played with everybody, Amad Jamal, and Witt Marcellus and Ellis Marcellus, and just so many folks over the years.

But he's had some really great records on criss cross of his own. But he came out with a record a couple years ago called perpetual optimism on the Mac Avenue label. And I think it's one of the best records of the last few years, of the last 10 years, of the last anytime.

You know, it's just, it's just really good. A lot of fun tunes of his own, a really good group. And I think this drum solo on here is just amazing. And the thing about it is, I've played with Heron a lot over the years, and I've heard him play at this level so many times that you think it would just be kind of routine or by rote. And for him, maybe it is. But I got to tell you that to play with someone that brings this level of artistry

and professionalism and just soul and invention is really, an amazing thing. So I love hearing this. Because some people will be like, well, you've played what Hurling, you've recorded with them. It must not be the same to hear it on recorded as it is to be in the same room with him. And I got to say, this, I guess brings all the memories back of hearing him live. But I think that this record is so well captured. The group is so tight. And this solo I love.

So I'm going to play, the album is perpetual optimism, but the track is called Borders Without Lines. And this is Hurlund's tune. And I'm going to play, let me just see. I can queue it up. Yeah, at the beginning, just so you get a flavor kind of for the melody. But then we're going to jump ahead to,

to, I'm just looking here, making sure I got this right here. Hold up a second, folks. Yeah, I'm going to jump ahead to a solo just so we can hear that. And then we're going to go out on that. And I just want to wish everybody, you know, a happy 2021. And Adam sends his greetings as well. We're going to be back in a slightly new format, but stronger than ever, ready to talk about music and hearing things

and improvisation and all things that we love centered around jazz music next year and we hope for you guys have a safe entry into 2021 and looking forward to all the wonderful things that that's going to bring and improvements. And so here we go. This is Borders Without Lines. Peace and love to everybody.

Erlin Riley. That's Emmett Cohen at the piano. He's killing it on this record. Russell Hall on the bass. I'm not even sure about the rest of that band. But that's who's playing right now. And I'm just going to kind of jump a hand. head. This drum solo is like, it's just so dope. And it's over a vamp. And they're killing it on

the vamp. Russell and Emmett just laying down the vamp. But I just love the way Hurling, you know, constructs the solo. It's just like a beautiful, you know, Greek temple or something of architecture. He just builds upon block upon block. And I mean, the groove is always there. And if you check it out closely, you'll hear there's two levels of backbeat. And you can kind of, you know, check out what those are. That's all I'll tell you. You'll hear the rest because you'll hear it. Erling Riley.

You'll hear it.