You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - 7 Tracks We've Been Diggin'

Episode Date: July 16, 2019

On this episode of YHI, Peter and Adam share some tunes they've been listening to lately. You can check them out on our playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xCxiRIyWQxVmBveE59bSx?si=pSIQs5CDSmSCeHFwApLPvA7 Tracks We've Been Diggin':Herlin Riley - "Borders Without Lines"Juana Molina - "Cosoco"Caetano Veloso - "Trilhos Urbanos"J.S. Ondara - "American Dream"Kirk Franklin - "Love Theory"Larry Goldings - "Solidity"Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - "You've Got A Friend"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.

You dig? Yeah, man. I'm Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast. Daily Jazz Advice and a little bit of emceeing, a little DJing going on today, right? I love it, man. I just need some turntables.

I have the microphone. Wiki, wiki, wiki, wiki, wiki. What? So we're listening to music bringing in the intro today because we are doing a playlist here of the seven tracks we've been digging recently. Now, this aren't necessarily jazz tracks, although I did just come in with my number six here, which was Larry Goldings, we'll get into later. Yeah, and he's an old soul, man. That was like some 1958 swings.

If you haven't heard that track. Anyway, we'll get there. Yeah, we'll get there. Let's get into just, we thought we'd just talk about some things we'll listen to right now. Stuff that we listen to. We're both, like, big listeners. We always have fun comparing kind of what's been playing. You know, we have interesting influences sometimes from our kids

or people we ran into whatever eclectic taste. That's right. I think we both did a little bit of re-editing of this list. I know I did when I realized I had almost no jazz on it. but I listen to a lot of different things so I think this should be fun let's check it out first we have your first choice which is Borders with Outlines

Hurlin Riley Yep here's how that sounds Oh Is that piano No idea Swinging much You like to swing much Swing much?

Got milk? Yeah and I'm a shame to say I don't know anybody who's on this record Except I'm gonna see if I can like This is like the problem with the age Of just like streaming whatever It sucks But this is his new album

I got a chance to buy We've talked about this record, I think, before. Does it even have, like, I'm looking here on, like, the Mac Avenue. This is on Mac Avenue. And called Perpetual Optimism. It was just released in April, and the track is Borders Without Lines. But, I mean, Hurlin is just swinging. Like, this is a good old, good time feeling, sophisticated, but feels good, makes you want to dance.

How can you play that fast? And when you get to the drum solo, it's just, can we play just a little bit of that? Absolutely. Yeah. Towards the end. Kind of last solo. Yeah. Yeah.

Just check this out. You got the Spotify playlist. They'll be able to check it out. And that is so awesome. Yeah, man. That's Hurlin Riley. The album is perpetual optimism. The track is Borders Without Lines.

Okay, so for my first one, I've been playing this kind of nonstop for about a month and a half. So I'm not in, right now, I'm not in, like, trying to be a better jazz pianist mode. I'm in trying to be a better writer. mode, you know, because I'm about to do a bunch of writing. Yeah. I don't know if you heard, but I'm going a little bit of retreat.

Yeah. Staycation. Staycation, do a little writing. This is Wanamalina. She's Argentine. Singer-songwriter. She has a trio. She plays guitar with a drummer and a bass player.

A lot of electronics. It's a sound I've never heard before. Yeah. This is Kasoko. The composition of every song, the, you can hear, though, the harmonies there. Everything is so unique. Familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. That's Juana Molina, J-U-A-N-A, Molina.

The album's Halo, and the track is Casoco. Any relation to our catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals? Jose? I mean, Yadier? Yadier. I doubt it. Molina. She's from Argentina.

He's from Puerto Rico. Those are two different continents. They are. Same name? Different continents. Cool. All right. Number three, we've got Catano Velos.

Trios Erbanos. Kaitano is wonderful Brazilian, legendary composer, artist, and political activist who's fortunately or unfortunately in the news recently for the op-head that he wrote against the current president of Brazil. But this is beautiful composition that was brought to attention

by an upcoming Brazilian course that we produce here at Open Studio. Let's check it out. The better, the time, it's gone, long, much long, but well, there's in here,

a vogue. Guys of Araujo, um, tamari interin, never me forgets. You know, it's such an amazing That groove that he strikes up The clarity and consistency

But just the humanity of it And the organic flow It's not like an automated thing But if you were to put that sucker in In some kind of automation It would show how steady Like a heartbeat it is Yeah alive

Afashe Afas I think is what it's called Afasheet It's like A-F-O-X A-E-S Some weird port Portuguese. Afashe.

Yeah. I'll get better at that as we're producing this course. Yeah. Yeah, I love that tune, man. And when, you know, when we have the Brazilian cats in here playing that, it just felt so incredible. Well, I mean, look, I don't want to stereotype a whole people, but Brazilian musicians know how to groove. Effortlessly. You think?

Yeah. Effortlessly. Now, I've actually heard a few that couldn't it. It's kind of funny because it's like. Not every American can swing. Exactly. But, I mean, they really have just an effortless. It's such a refreshing and inspired.

So for my next one, this is a singer-songwriter named J.S. Undara. He's Kenyan. And the story goes that he became obsessed with Bob Dylan. He moved to Minneapolis. And this is his debut album called Tales of America. This is American Dream the first track. I'm just such a sucker for this kind of simple instrumentation. And he's got a killing voice.

How good is that? Oh, beautiful. Isn't that awesome? Beautiful, beautiful. The whole record is basically, you know, his story coming to America. Definitely worth checking out. Jay Sondara. There is such, I mean, we're talking about abundance earlier in the week.

I mean, the abundance of wonderful music being produced and hopefully consume right now always. It's just inspiring. And I think for anyone to be like, oh, there's nothing good. You know, wake up. Yeah. Man, talk to some people. Like, listen. There's so much.

I mean, you know, we could sit around here and play stuff. just for each other. We're not even like the hippest to stuff. You know, we just keep our ears open. I'll speak for yourself. Yeah. I mean,

no, it's like, I mean, if we were to both be independently wealthy and devote our life to just listening and curating music, we'd be the hippest. There's a ton of great stuff.

There's a ton of great stuff. I mean, there's so much, I mean, it's just kind of like, I guess it's just kind of like, can I get on a soapbox? Get on your soapbox.

No, you hear old cats say like, oh, there's no good music anymore. Yeah, you're just old. And young people. You know, we don't want to be ages. But, you know, no, but also it's like, you're just like with negativity.

Like, you know, people just being like, oh, this is, yeah, there's bad stuff in the world. There's idiots in the world. We could name them. But let's put our energy into all the beautiful things. How much beauty is their world, and just in the world of music, that we're just scratching the surface. The advantage that older music has is that, you know, we've weeded out the bad stuff. Nobody wants to listen to the bad older music. So all we've kept is the good stuff.

Yeah. So I love your next pick here. This is Kirk Franklin. Oh, come on. Underrated. This is my jam, this last couple months. This is a love theory. Check it out.

Ho! Oh, man, that piano part is killer. It is. The syncopation here. Back to the one. They can make your next chapter. Your best chapter. Hallelujah.

How can it be? Oh. Side question. Are we in a golden age of American? gospel music. Man, I love gospel music. I'm not a huge fan of church. I feel bad. I'm not either. But I think we're in a golden age of American gospel music. I mean, it's just, they're just killing it. I actually almost had two tracks from Kirk Franklin. I had to take one of them off, the one that he did with Chance the Rappers. I've been jamming on that lately too. But yeah,

Kirk is, I mean, and check this side. Some of you jazz hands may be like, I don't need that. Check out the syncopation, the triplets, like the interloping rhythms, how they stay in the groove on this track. There's a lot to learn there. So, enjoy it. My next track, this is actually from 2014, but I just discovered it this year. This is Larry Goldings. It's, I think it's called... Solidity? Called music from the front room. This is...

Solidity is the track. It's Larry Goldings. The bass player I'm going to space on, but the drummer is Jay Bellaroch who plays with Allison Krauss, Robert Plant, among others. This is the opening track, and I've just been obsessed with the old-schoolness and lightness of his touch

on this for such a heavy sounding piano check it out I'm also I'm a sucker for a boogealoo this is total boogaloo they got the sign uh Goldiex in the house I mean Jay Belroach man coming out of

Austin he's from the bean town what Larry G don't ruin this track for me don't ruin this track for me don't run this track for me sorry sorry I was bad

I first met him in in 1987 what What? Sorry. Hans Gruber up in this piece. Hans Gruber. Listen to his feel, though. Listen to how he phrases his melody.

I can do two things at once. I can mock and listen. What, what, whoa, whoa, whoa. Patience. Ah. Big ups to Larry Golda. I'm checking this out. Can you send me an email with all those tracks?

I will. I'm going to check out the Spotify playlist. It's a funky fresh record. Check out the Spotify list. Okay. Number seven. Yeah. We're here.

It's hot. I'm really getting loopy, man. I know, man. I got to go. I also mean ketosis. I forgot to tell you that. Are you really? I think so.

No. I don't even know what it is. Okay, this is classic. St. Louis's own Donnie Hathaway. Roberta Flack. I'm so glad you picked this. This is one of my favorite tracks. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

This was going to be the boat. Okay, no, no, go ahead. No, this is it. Number seven. No, we got to do the, okay, good. Let's do it. Number seven. You got a friend.

Oh. It's the stereo ping of the roads. Was that Worley? It's roads. I will have to say, you know, listeners, if you haven't devoted some time to Donnie Hathaway. I know. I always forget that people don't,

a lot of people don't know him that much. If you like Stevie Wonder, you like Al Green, any of the big names for this kind of thing. W.A. Mozart, J.S. Bach. Put him up to end. Come on all. Also as a player, though. Yeah.

And Roberta, too, on this, this is actually from a compilation, but the stuff they did together when she's playing piano and all that. Listen there. they'll duet the way they sang. Frays. Maybe we should roll out on this.

We're taking out on this, Andrew. Until tomorrow, you will hear it.