You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - 7 Most Asked Questions About Jazz

Episode Date: September 30, 2019

It's time for a jazz FAQ as Peter and Adam list the questions they most frequently hear asked about jazz.7 Most Asked Questions About JazzAre you really just making it all up?What is that, an oboe? (to a bassist)Do you like Kenny G?What's happening, hep cat?Can you make a living playing jazz?Don't you hate jazz?How long have you been a barista?Like those You'll Hear It shirts Peter shows off on the podcast? Want some YHI swag of your own? Take a visit to our store! Just go to https://teespring.com/stores/open-studioLet 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. Yeah. Can I ask you a question about jazz? Yes. Can I ask you seven questions about jazz? Well, that would be eight totals, though. No. Okay.

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Because it's 17 calories? That's pushing you over the edge, buddy? It's hard. Okay. Well, anyway, this is all natural, no natural flavors. I'm on a crusade against natural flavors So no, I don't know So what is it about natural flavors?

Well, it seems so innocent I know That's why I'm so mad about it Because all these years If I saw the ingredient natural flavor I thought why that's a wonderful thing It's just something But I did always think it was odd

That it would Why wouldn't you just list what that natural flavor is? Right Like at the back of a great jazz album You know trumpet Freddy Hubbard Right saxophone Joe Henderson Piano

Great guy No Why don't you just say what it is? Well, I think isn't it because a lot of it is just like it's essentially soybean byproduct or whatever. It can be anything. It can be anything. It only has to start. It's a totally unregulated term.

That's the crazy thing. Oh, well, that's why they use it all the time. It just has to have some little bit of germ of possibly something in nature, which is anything. But then it can be a chemical. Chemicals can be added. It can be modified in a laboratory. You can have a bunch of different ingredients in it. It's really crazy.

All right. So when you see natural flavors run. And if you have a counter argument, into this. Send it to Peter. Hey, my YouTube guy told me that. Your YouTube guy? You don't have a judgy food YouTube? I have dozens of them. Oh, yeah, but they're all keto guys.

Yeah, you wouldn't know. Well, you know, the plant base world, we have our own people. That's great. Okay, so what are we talking about today? We're asking questions of ourselves, of our listeners. Do we forget that quickly? This is a big one. The seven most asked questions about jazz. This is a highly subjective

list. This is not necessarily scientifically studied. We didn't go on Google and find out the most searched for things. This is just completely anecdotal. Totally anecdotal. Kind of comical and not even entirely accurate. A lot of airport conversations on this list for sure.

We thought we had a little fun today. All right. So number one is a very common one that I think I'll be asked until the day I die, which is are you really just making it all up? Right. Which I always say, yeah. Yeah, totally. Exactly. Exactly right. I'm just making it all up.

and you know the one that always goes along with this i'm just is it okay to add or we yeah is and that really is i mean that's probably been asked more than any any that's for sure in terms of volume but there's also the how long have you guys been playing together which is often a part of are you really making it up yeah yeah but there's always a kind of funny little little smirk with that because it's like how long have you guys playing because it sounds like you're just making it up yeah you've never played together before well and they might ask that of several you know at every concert they go to knowing that it's usually like oh this is like our second gig ever or we've never played in this combination before that's often the case yeah um i used to

take it as a compliment then i realized it was an insult so there you go okay number two what is that an obo to a basis now you can replace obo with any classical instrument and bass with any other instrument but i do i do recall several occasions where with especially when used to travel with the base like there doesn't have much in the they look so funny in an airport it looks like that she has no place being on an airplane. What do you have a dead body in there? Exactly. What do you have a dead body?

We could have Christian McBride today. Oh, no. Another common one that you get for a basis always get is, don't you wish you'd played the piccolo? That's when people really think they know, you know. There you go. That's a good one. Number three is, do you like Kenny G to which the answer should always be?

Yeah, Kenny Garrett. Love that, dude. And then they get very confused because nobody knows who Kenny Garrett is besides huge jazz nerds like us. And you know what I've noticed? Kenny G, it doesn't quite have the ring that it used to. I think I made a joke about Kenny G the other night on a gig. And it might have been a little younger crowd, a little more trending millennial, which we love to see. There was a few snickers, but a lot of just like who you're talking about.

Who's Kenny G? You know, too. Is that possible? He's making, apparently, the rumor is he's making music with Kanye. Wow. Like those two are teaming up. Okay. Well, they deserve each other.

No. That could be interesting, actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, Kenny G. is a talented, talented guy. I could go to, like, Nora Jones, maybe, you know? Because she's, I think a lot of people think of her as jazz, and she is, you know, steeped in it a little bit,

but her music certainly is not really. But she's never had the reputation for. She's on Blue No, you know. Yeah. Yeah. She seems the nearest you. Yeah. Okay, what's number four?

Well, you wrote this one, so you got to deliver it. Oh, you play jazz? What's happening, Hepcat? You ever get that one? Yeah, you know, like, put a beret on his? they say it. Or sometimes like classical jazz hands. Jazz hands. My classical music friends will like put like their smoke

in a like a joint up like oh you're playing jazz. Oh like oh we're going to play some jazz we're going to get you know a little high whatever Wow. Yeah. Yeah we are it's my right. No I've never gotten that one actually that's not cool. No bueno to that one. The classical musicians? Yeah. They should be like oh we're going to pop some adderall before we go practice for eight hours. It's like that same

thing you ever it's like when you play with like a classical singer or whatever and their version of jazz is just kind of body. It's kind of burlesque. It's kind of burlesque. They're just like, if I just shake my shoulders, that's jazz, right? Put like a boa,

like a boa feathered boa around my neck. Totally. Yeah, that's funny. Sorry, I'm having a little with my own computer problems. It went to sleep for a second. I know you have your own computer problem. I do too.

I can't even handle it, right? Like, I'm, yeah, I'm heading straight to the Apple story after this. All right. Ridiculous. Can you make a little? Speaking of that, can you make a living at jazz? No.

Well, you weren't asking? No, no, that's the next of our seven most asked questions about jazz. Can you make a living doing this? And clearly the answer is yes. Adam Manus makes a living at jazz, and he's on the way of the Apple store to buy $3,500 laptop. So he's doing all right. Or it's what's your day job?

Right. That's the other one. Yeah, what do you do for a job? So do you, is this all you do? And they ask it like, I don't know, kind of hesitantly. Like, is this all you do? I know. And I say, no, I direct them to open studio, jazz.com.

Yeah, exactly. Shameless plug. Okay, this is number six here? Number six is, no, this is number six. Number six. Where they look at, when you say, I'm a jazz musician, they look at you confused, like, don't you hate jazz? And that's when I usually say something like,

oh, well, yeah, but I'm a jazz musician. Yeah. But because I'm a jazz musician. Is it a rhetorical question? Just because it's hard and frustrating. Yeah. Maybe they're projecting that they hate jazz. That could be it too.

And I would refer people to our classic two I Hate Jazz episodes. Our classic I Hate Jazz episode is still getting commented on like a weekly, if not daily basis. I know. It's scary. And now they're starting to turn on us. You've seen the latest ones where they're like, well, we hate jazz because of you pompous a-holes. Yeah, like stuff like that. Yeah.

That's great. General YouTube comments are a scary, scary. Okay, first of all, that couldn't be true that they hate jazz because to get to that video, they likely had to search they literally had to put the words into Google I hate jazz and then that came up of course we were joking they didn't realize that

then they watch it they're like oh this is why so they're just going for self-affirmation exactly right it's confirmation bias confirmation bias exactly okay number seven I like number seven so how long have you met a barista

that's good now this really could be applied to a multitude of really just sort of competitive job fields we were talk about. Right? Hasn't a barista become the kind of, you know, like, almost like you used to say, oh, I'm an actor in L.A. Yeah. Oh, really, where are you waiting tables? You know, where are your waiter? Like, because that's your job as you pursue your dream. And I actually think this,

I mean, it's a joke, but I think that this is a great thing because we know some really good jazz musicians that are baristas as well, especially younger ones, you know? Sure. And it is kind of a nice job that you could conceivably do during the day. It's your evenings free for all the jazz you want to play. And you're evening's free for all the jazz you want to play. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. There's no shame in working in the service industry. Not at all.

You know, to get your art going. That's a time-honored tradition. They have some rock star baristas now. There's a guy from Japan. He has a great place up in Chicago and opening one in New York. Sawada coffee. Big shout out to them. I don't know if I'm saying that correctly.

But he's like a jet-setting barista, man. He goes to like a beza to do barista. He's an espresso barista? I think I just said it because it rhyme. Yeah. A beza barista, exactly. All right, well, I think we nailed it. As we always do, seven most asked questions about jazz.

Maybe we can invite, I think people are safe on this because it's not an I hate jazz kind of crowd today. Yeah, no, no, no. So I think we're safe to say, now the YouTube comments or wherever you are consuming this podcast, let us know any questions you may have about jazz. Yeah. And we would be happy to engage the community to answer. And if you like jazz and you like this podcast, why not leave us a rating and review? Man, we haven't plugged for that lately. I know.

We get ratings and reviews. What about share it with your friends? Share it with your friends. Share it with your enemies. Yeah, you know, I... Share it with your frenemies. I had lunch with a friend who, an old friend, Tim, who plays guitar,

and he's in South Carolina. He was coming through town for one reason or the other. And he was on a gig with like this guy he didn't really know that well and he was like, you should check out this podcast called You'll Hear It. Yeah. And Tim was like, that's my boy.

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