You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - 7 Albums Peter Never Knew

Episode Date: May 2, 2019

Adam returns the favor and drops some knowledge on Peter in today's episode as he shows him 7 albums he's never listened to. You can listen to all of them on our Spotify playlist here: 7 Albums Peter Never Knew PlaylistToday's episode is sponsored by the Oxford American. The Oxford Americanis a magazine dedicated to documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Its award-winning annual music issue comes with a CD sampler and digital download - a must-have for any serious music fan. Recent issues have featured Nina Simone, Thelonious Monk, John Cage, and John Cage. Visit https://www.oxfordamerican.org/yhi today for a special subscription discount!Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel and leave a comment for this episode.Interested in more jazz advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram at:https://www.facebook.com/heyopenstudiohttps://twitter.com/heyopenstudiohttps://www.instagram.com/heyopenstudio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey, Peter. Hey, man. What do you know about historicity? Is that even a word? Not really. Oh, okay. I'm Adam Anas. And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast for some reason. Daily jazz advice coming at you. That's the reason. That's the reason. And today, it's my turn. A couple weeks ago, we did seven albums. Adam Never knew. Today we're doing seven albums.

Peter Never knew. Now, I'm just guessing that you don't know these. I tried to stick with pianists. Yeah. Because I know who your people are. Yeah. I know who you like, and I know who I've not heard you talk about a lot. Right.

Shamefully avoided in conversation, that kind of thing. You might know some of the... You might. I don't know. But I doubt it. I doubt it. I better not. You titled the seven albums Peter never knew. Not only do I not know them, I ain't never known them.

So we'll see. All right. We can always edit. So the first one, what do you know about Bud Powell, the amazing? Oh, sorry, not the amazing. The genius of Bud Powell. This is the one with Buddy Rich. You know what I know about this?

Nothing. So I'm super interested. Never heard of it. You don't know about T for two? I mean, I've heard him play it, but not with Buddy Rich. Maybe I don't. Look out. All right.

Can you fax me over a copy of that one? I like it. This is the stuff right here. I mean, there's no melody to the tune, but it just. This is the genius. The genius. Genius above power. Bud Powell

What's on bass? Interlude they do. What do you know about that? You know what I know about it? I know I like it and now I know it. I know you know some of the stuff off this. Parisian thoroughfare. I've heard you play

like Bud's version. So you had to have heard it. Let's see. I know it's Buddy Rich on drums. The genius of Bud Powell. Well, first you got to go to Google.com. I'm forgetting.

I'm spacing on. who's playing based on this, but that's a very good. While you're looking for that, you know what would be awesome is if we could get a Google sponsorship. Andrew, make a note. Call Google this afternoon, okay? We're going to get a Google sponsorship, and then what we're going to, we're going to help promote their website.

So we're going to help promote Google.com? No, we're going to send them to Google.com slash Y-H-I. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Anyway, side note, okay. I don't think Google needs our help. I'm just stall for time so you can find out the... Yeah, you know, my computer is dying slowly.

I think it was constructed the year that Buddy Rich collaborated with Bud Powell on that trio album. Oh, yeah. So it's an unknown bass player, not a very well-known bass player called Ray Brown. Oh, wow. 1950 Ray Brown. All right, come on. Buddy Rich and Ray Brown, and they are super swinging. Anyway, that's the amazing Bud Powell.

That's a record that Peter never really knew. I never really knew. Is this going to be a Spotify playlist for folks? We have a Spotify playlist. We have the link here in the description. And we have a Spotify Open Studio. account now. We're very excited about that. But you know, it's funny. So I know you listen to Charlie Parker. I know you listen to Monk. I know you love people like Winton Kelly and Red Garland, but I never

hear talk about Bud Powell that much. And maybe, I have guys like that too who are like giants that. I know. It just wasn't ever hit me. Yeah. I mean, I, and it's not because I, there's some giants that I've never been a huge fan of. I'm too embarrassed to even say that. Yeah, yeah. But it's definitely not the case with But I don't know why. It wasn't a huge part of my listening. But I had a few recordings. Like I have another version of of Parisian thoroughfare where I kind of learned the whole thing by ear as best I could and then wrote it out. So I've definitely

been deep dive occasionally with Bud Powell but you're right. It's just something I need to think about and listen to more. But you know what I like about both of these lists is that I think it kind of informs our listeners here that you don't actually have to be a scholar of every single

corner of this music to be able to play it. You find the people that you connect with and you know even if Well, we're assuming that people think we can play it. Play this. Yeah, that's a big jump. We're like, to be a great like us, you know, that people like, no, no, really?

Maybe. At least you can fool people in the thinking that you can play it by. Fool me twice. Shame on me. By finding. You know, you find your stable of sounds of people that you love. But we have, I mean, we've gotten kind of, you know, hardcore about that before in that, like, it's better to go on a deep dive and deep listen and deep learn from a smaller

collection of recordings than a greater thing. I think that even includes per artist. So for me, it was kind of that one recording that I really listened to a lot of Bud Powell, but I like learned a lot of stuff off of that recording. So, you know, I think, you know, it's always a balance that we have as fans of this music and as like trying to develop. And it's not always exactly the same thing that we're listening to. All right. Next up, what do you know about Lenny Tristano, the new Tristano? I didn't even know the old Tristano. You're going to like this, too, though. And I have no idea who's on the phone.

And I would never guess this is in a blindfold test. I'd be like Duke Allington when he got high. This cat's eighth note is ridiculous. No left-hand comping. No. He's playing where the left-hand would know that he'd be playing in the same register. The tenor range. And I love this record.

There's a killing version of these foolish things. There's a killing version of all the things you are. Check out Lenny Shristano's The New Tristano. favor right after this fax me over the URL to that Spotify. Buddy, I don't need to fax you over anything. You just go to Spotify, our Open Studio Spotify. Hey, follow us on Spotify. Follow us. And we have all these playlists. Link below. All right, the next one. Wait, I just want to say about Lenny Shustano, unlike Bud Powell, I'm totally ignorant. I mean, I've heard him, but literally I wouldn't, I mean, I might have

guessed just because the sound is so distinctive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's just somebody that I really want to start listening to more. I don't know. I totally missed him growing up. I did too. I've only gotten into him like in my 30s, but I love his second. And then, I mean, to the point of like even until recently, like if somebody started, like I was in, I remember back when I first went to New York and like meeting Mike, Mike Wilner and Larry Goldings, Peter Burriss. And like they'd start, oh, Lenny Chastana. I would just sort of like literally just go into a tortoise shell, tortoise shell. Oh, you don't know him. All right. Here's one. I know you know a lot of Bill Evan's stuff, but this is a record that I think I've never heard you mention. This is from left to right. This is Bill on the piano and the festival. of Rhodes. This is what are you doing the rest of your life?

Yeah. I love this album so much. He's accompanying himself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've never, I know about this record, I don't think I've ever heard it. Yeah, you can see your...

Shame, rain down on me. You can see here on the album cover, the setup in the studio. Oh, yeah. String arrangements are so good. 1970. That's the year of my birth. That's why I didn't hear this.

I wasn't born yet. What time of year in 70 was this recorded? It was before August. I mean, that sounds like C, what's the guy who did the Sibeski? I probably isn't. The strings. I don't know who did the strings, but they are. What label is it on?

Lush. The Spotify didn't tell you nothing, does it? Yeah, no. Come on, Spotify. Spotify's the worst. That would be cool to get a sponsorship with them, though. Yeah, I mean, we'd have to make sure that they add stuff like album credits. Right.

Come on, Spotify. I mean, I know you can just Google this stuff, but it's like, I want it all in one place. That's right. I want it all in one place. That's great, man. I want to definitely check in on that. What do you know about one of the most fun records ever recorded? This is Duke Ellington meets Coleman Hawkins.

Limbo Jazz. Yeah. You know what I think about this? No. I know this tune, though. And I've heard Duke play it on... There's a few different. Yeah.

Yeah. One more... So this is the first track, Limbo Jazz. The name of the record is Duke Allington with Coleman Hawkins. Duke Ellington meets Coleman Hawkins. Meets him. Johnny Hodges. They've never met before.

Interesting. It's documented. But one more shout out for this record The second track Moot Indigo Check this out Never heard of it What Moot Indigo? This is my favorite version of song

Articulation I mean definitely this track Not the album I love this album so much man Yeah Alright so maybe this is one you kind of knew No no I didn't I really didn't know the album

And I you know That's a good one All right next up And I'm man I'm realizing I'm in a very like specific time period But it's all I don't know There's so much music that was being made

In these early 60s The 20th century. The next one is, what do you know about Ben Webster, meet you at the fair? No. Fair F-A-I-R or F-A-R-E? No, sorry, see you at the fair, my bad. This was, what do I know about? See you at the fair?

I don't even know what the actual title is. No, I listened to this album over, and I had two, I actually bought a second CD because I had broke the first CD when I was living in New York. This for me is all about Hank Jones comping. This is one of my favorite Hank Jones albums. It's Ben Webster's Seath Fair in 1964 when the World Fair was in Queens. These block-court comping things that Hank Jones is doing.

Oh, all right. Who wants to learn how to swing? Check out our Spotify playlist. Anybody like swinging? Yes, right. If you don't have access to a park with a swing set in your neighborhood, just put this track on and put your kid on it. All right.

This next one, I'm not even going to tell you. I'm just going to play. Okay. Because I know this is one of our favorite artists. Okay. I do know this, but I don't know this album. You're right, like, nearly as well as... That's sunlight, right?

Herbie Hancock, Sunlight. But I would have almost... I was about to say George Duke. It's a George Duky vibe. This is definitely when I think he influenced Herbie a lot. They were influencing each other. Vocal to Herbie. Yeah.

Yeah. This is a record I want to explore, for sure. Man, I'm just going to skip ahead to Herbie. Is that Herbie on the vocal? Yeah. Yeah. It sounds like... Herbie speaking voice.

I know. I'm going to skip ahead. I love the book court. Sorry, there's a vote quarter solo. Here we go. He turned into like a beautiful auto tuner for jazz improvisation. Oh. What?

Podcast. I mean, it could just be, we could just do that for seven minutes. Sunlight. Okay, all right, all right. Got excited there. Oh, it's getting hot in the pond cave. You need to not sleep on sunlight. anymore, my friend. That is a record that is all up in your business. It's so Peter Martin

who was like made for you. Well, you know what? It's just like a fine wine. You're saving it for later in life. So I'm going to get on it. All right. The next is, what do you know about VJ. Iyer? But nice guy. Know him personally. Heard him live several times, very impressed. Don't know his recordings at all. So this is historicity. And, um, except that one. I know that one. It's a famous. It's his most famous one probably, the trio record. And, and, you know, And I'm super interested, though. Let me see if this sparks your interest. Maybe sparks joy.

It's Bad Plus-esque. Ah. So this is Ronnie Foster's Mystic Brew. Of course, was sampled by the tribe called Quest. But they just kind of turn it inside out throughout this five minutes. And, man, I love this album so much. I used to, like, run to this entire album for years. Man, let's get this going on the open studio playlist just kind of in general in the office.

That'd be a phone one to work by, don't you think? For sure. Yeah, for sure. So, yeah, that's BJ Iyer's historicity killing record. Yeah, man. One that I was pretty confident. You wouldn't know. I didn't know any of these. Wait, is that seven or is that six? That's seven. That's seven.

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