You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - 7 Great Mopey Straight-8th Tunes

Episode Date: March 27, 2020

Rainy spring days are on their way, so Peter and Adam lay down their favorite soundtracks for quiet introspection. Listen to all of them with our Spotify playlist next time you're in a mopey mood.7 Great Mopey Straight-8th TunesHerbie Hancock - "Maiden Voyage"Bobby Hutcherson - "Theme From Blow Up"Avishai Cohen - "Remembering"Keith Jarrett - "Lalene"Kenny Garrett - "Sing a Song of Song"Brad Mehldau - "Exit Music - For a Film"Joshua Redman - "Balance"BONUSIn light of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, we understand that money is tight for a lot of people right now. That's why we've decided that for the duration of this crisis, we'll be running a Choose What You Pay campaign at Open Studio. Choose whichever course you want and then let us know how much you're willing to pay - that's it. For more info, click this link.There's a brand new course from Open Studio: Jazz Chords for Beginners. Learn from YHI's own Adam Maness as he teaches you the important chords you need to know to play jazz. You can also follow along with Adam thanks to our Guided Practice Sessions™, where he'll teach you exactly how to practice the concepts of each lesson. And as a response to the tough times many of us are going through these days, we've decided to launch this course at several different price points. For more info, follow this link.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.Let 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.

Hey Pete, hey, you feeling okay today, bud? Oh, I feel a little mopey. You're a little mopey? Actually, I don't know what that means. We're going to find out. I'm Adamannis. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast.

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Oh, it was a ship? Because I was going to say, was this like you go down on Lindberg Boulevard and cruise around? listening to Bebop No. With the car windows down. Nope. It's not that. It was not that kind of cruise.

No, no, no. Not at all. Cool. This is a legit boat, bruh. So today, this was my idea. Seven great mopey

straight eighth tunes. I like the word mopee because it's a funny way to say sad. Oh, that's what it is. Okay. Mope around.

I thought you, oh, okay, you're a little bit. Yeah, but these are like great tracks, these are, these are. You have some explaining

to do some? No, if you're feeling like you want to, like, you know how sometimes you feel like a little sad and you're like, I want to lean into this a little bit. Like I want to keep this just going. I don't want to feel happy right now. You were such a millennial lean into it. Are you going to unpack that comet now, buddy? I'm going to unpack it with some

Herbie Hancock made the voyage. This is the king of the straight-Ave-moat. Okay. When I believe, right? George Paul has a great song. You know, it's like the ship's leaving port, but it's like, will it be back? I don't know. Right. Maybe the love your life is on that boat. It's its maiden voyage. Horizons. To me, yeah, exactly. To me, this is, uh, the start of straight-up straight-aith mopiness. That's right. Vibe, straight-a-th thing.

And apparently it went in two directions after this. Hip and something else. So there can't, so some rules that I'm going to lay down with this. There can't be, it can't get too funky. That's right. You rejected a couple of my tracks because of funkiness. It can't be too hip or sophisticated. You know what I mean?

So that was not sophisticated what we just heard? It was. Explain your way out of that one. No, it was. It was. You're right. It was right. So we're going to continue on here.

here. This is Herbie involved. This is the theme from blowup. What do you know about this? I recorded this one. I love this. Oh, I love the way it starts. That's kind of funky, though. It's a little, it's on the edge, but it's still lowy enough that. It's from the original soundtrack that Herbie Hackackack scored for the movie. Blowup. Low E. Come on. The great Bobby Hutcherson. See, it's all right. It's a little too happy, maybe, for a nice boat.

You know what I mean? This is. I mean, it's all Susque. so it's super, you know, optimistic sound. Yeah, it's a little optimistic sound. Well, I didn't understand the parameters. Now I'm starting to get it. Well, we got it in there. We got it in there.

Definitely straight eighth. Definitely straight eighth. Your next one, you know what? I'm going to skip ahead of you. I'm going to show you how I, like, to me, what a classic mopey straight eighth tune sounds like. This is from Abashai Cohen, the bass player. And this is his tune remembering.

To me, this is straight up Moop City. Kind of staring out your window. It's raining. Introspection. You know, this is a good one for like... It'd all be in minor keys. That would have helped focus me as well. Alas!

That's nice. It's really nice, man. Yeah. It's a little section. It just keeps going mopier. Yeah. Maybe he's sad because he misses his sister and not. Oh, that's not the same one.

That's obviously I Cohen, the bassist, not the trumpeterst. Right. With remembering. So now we're going to skip back to one of your picks. This is Keith Jarrett. This is from his first solo piano record. His first on ECM record. This is Laylene.

From Facing You. From Facing You. You like this record. I like this. Not just me. A lot of people. A lot of people like this. It's good.

But you especially. I do like it. Mostly you. See, you've nailed the Mopey vibe with this one. This is kind of Mopee, right? It's not minor, but it's Mopee. It's just moody as hell, man. It's like introspective yet stoic.

I love his touch and the same. down to the piano on this record. I know. It's super harsh, but it's very harsh. So great. Very close micing, very, very, very, uh, very harsh and beautiful. Laleen from facing you, Keith Jarrett. All right, let's move ahead a couple decades.

I'm realizing here the last few on our list kind of hover around late 90s, early 2000s. I think this was like, oh, recent stuff. No, yeah. Yeah, you know, in the last 25 years or so. No, but I think this era might have been a golden age of mope. It was. Right.

It was. We're going to start here. Back when the suits were big and the vibe was big and the mope was big. This is Kenny Garrett sing a song of song. Too optimistic sounding? I don't know. There's a lot of left-hand piano and bass doubling lines on this mopee list. It is.

That's a mopee sound. I think we've nailed it. What record is this on? This is from Songbird. Songbird, the big one. I mean, Jeff Tainwashed, what a versatile musician to be able to be able to nail with the incredible technique and groove and everything, the Mopey vibe as well. That's so good, man.

That sounds so good. What a great sounding record, too. That's Kenny Garrett, sing a song of song. All right, continuing on our 90s vibe, this is, I mean, we couldn't have got out of here without some Brad Meldow, you know what I mean? Exactly. And this is especially Mopi because this is a radio head cover,

which is the ultimate Mopee rock band. Right, a MOTRI introspective version of a Mopee song. That's right. You could make exit music for a film even mopier. Brad does it here. Oh, is Peter just there? He almost don't know. It's sleepy for a minute.

I think Brad's, his touch and his masterful technique so tender, like, really lends itself to the style very well. Yeah. Just the sound of the instrument. No, he knows what he's his control of it. He knows what he's good at, for sure. Yeah. Although yesterday, he did appear on the burner. Are you, have been going on a deep dive of Brad Meldow?

I just want to throw my. respects to Brad Maldow lately. I don't know what I've been listening to a little bit. It's good stuff. Oh, it's so defensive. This is in that same family of artists. This is Joshua Redmond Beyond. He's related to Brad Meldlow?

No, but they played together. That's right. And this is from Beyond, this is balance. I love this record. Aaron Goldberg on piano. Aaron Goldberg. Ruben Rogers. Yes.

Gregory Hutchinson. That's right. It's balance. Is that a left-hand piano? Maybe we found out the secret sauce to mopeiness. I don't think we did. hashtag secret sauce to mopiness slightly world music-esque

hand drumming always works good on the mopey vibe right lens an air of international flair exoticism to it for sure that whole record though is a bit of a mope fest too it's great man we rejected some of the other tracks that we really wanted to put on because they were in odd meters

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