You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Blindfold Test: Adam - #39

Episode Date: October 18, 2018

In today's episode it's Adam's shot at another blindfold test. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey, Adam. What? Why do you have that thing over your eyes and you look so nervous and you're sweating? Man, it's my blindfold test today. Oh, now the table has turned. I'm Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And this is the You'll Hear at podcast.

That's right, Daily Jazz Advice coming at you with confidence and flair. I'm resolved, Peter. I'm resolved to have a good score. You got seven out of seven on yours. Did I? You did. I don't even remember that. I'm sure you don't because you've been, I believe you bought donuts.

for the entire office that will last two days. Seven donuts to commemorate my victory. It's so annoying around here. Okay. I guess it's my turn. Am I doing pianist? What am I doing? Well, you know what?

I want to open this up because I made it a little bit more difficult than that, I think. I want to just go any artists. Like, we're going to go traditional blindfold. Like, name as much as you can. I think you're going to actually get a lot of these recordings. But if you just hear the pianist, that's fine, too. So I want to just make it. Is that cool?

Make it a little more open. That's fine. Yeah, I actually felt a little bit handcuffed by your pianist only thing. Oh, really? Okay, okay. Okay, ready? Ready. Hmm. Who's the pianist? Glasper? I don't know. I actually don't know.

Who is this? Good little hint. You talked about it on your complete album. Kamasi, Washington. There you go. Street Fighter Moss. Yeah, yeah. From heaven and earth. Yeah. Okay. I thought that's what it was.

That's good. One for one. Thanks for the hint, buddy. All right. Yeah. Like this. Caravan. Yeah. I really have no idea.

I really don't have an idea. I have no clue. I'll give you a little hint. Yeah. 1988 call. They want their jazz quartet back. Is it Winton? Yes.

Nice. Is it Kenny Kirkland? No. No. Who is it? Sons Kenny. A pray, Kenny. Oh, who is that guy?

Who's that guy? Marcus Roberts. There you go. Jeff Watts. Bed. Good thing just starts and stops at the right time. This is amazing. Jeff Watts and Bob Hurst, I believe.

I don't want to speak out of term, but I believe that's Robert Leslie Hurst. Friend of the podcast. That's right. Friend of podcast. Okay, good. So that's... I mean, that's one for two.

One for two. Come on. You kind of gave me that one. Okay. Oh, sorry. Major. Okay. It's a modern recording

The duo record Duke can count It's not Joshua Redmond Yes it is Brad Meldown on Joshua? Yeah That was good Got it

Got it Okay All right Three for three I'm gonna take that second one By the way now No that was good Yeah exactly

I'm gonna take it I'm jumping all over the place here You really are This is tough It's Bill Evans No It's a Duke Ellington Is that from

John Colterian Duke Ellington? Yep. That's purely by the sound of the piano. I know. By that middle register. That's why I said Bill, because that sounds a similar

one of his records. But that's, yeah, from Duke Ellington meets John Coltrane. Yeah. What's the name of that tune? My little brown book. A little brown book. Yeah, and it's great.

I love this. I love the way tramping. That's so great. I don't understand how, like, Rudy Van Gallagel could make the piano sound so thin. And then this tenor sounds so fat. It's so huge. And the,

it works. A nine, A nine-foot Steinway sounds like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, and I mean, like the snare, like the brushes. We're talking about, man, no bravo. Whoa. I'll go three for four.

Good. Three and a half. Well, I got to remember who's on this, actually. Blakey? Miles? No. I'm spacing. Does I play a little more, or?

I don't know. You want to phone a friend? I kind of do. I have no idea. This is hard. The trumpet. You've got to be a serious blue-note heads, even if you don't know the work. Let me get to the sax.

Wayne. No? Joe Henderson? Yeah. Damn it. I got to take my time with this, man. I keep, like, McCoy. That's Kenny Dormon.

Kenny Dorman. Shoot. I actually don't know. I'm like, I, a little bit of a Kenny Dorman gap. That's a great tune. Shame on me. Shame on me. Serenity. Serenity. I know that tune, too.

We're going to do some lessons on those. Oh, man. Okay, that was a big whiffer. That was okay. That was okay. That was all right. Oh, wait, wait. That's wrong. That's wrong. Sorry. We're back here. So how you been, man? What have we had? Three for four now? Four for five. Three for five. Number six.

Okay. This is the hardest one. Sorry. Well, I couldn't get Kenny Dorham. For the pianist. So I got to give you a couple of little content. text. You'll probably know the tune after he gets he, see, just helped you there. That helps. That helps big time. Piano Trio. Okay. And you may not know, you're definitely going to know who he is. You're probably not going to know this recording. But if you think about, if you know what the tune is, think about who would record this so accurately. Okay. Beautiful.

A touch. Yeah. Yeah. That's so nice. I'm going to skip ahead here for the purposes of time. BCM Is it ECM recording? No, it's not. The Spring could really hang you up the most. Yeah, okay, now go with that. Who would play the exact, accurate, perfect verse,

just beautiful trio? Keith Jarrett. It's not Keith, but it's... Dang it. It'd be Bill Sharlapp. Of course it's Bill Charlap. I'd need to listen to this more. Yeah.

I don't know the recording, but I'm like... That's actually a really good hint. If you would have just said, who's playing spring can really hang up the most? I kind of did say that. With a beautiful touch and perfectly, I would have been like, Bruce Bards, Bill Shalaph. I'm saying it at the beginning.

Sorry, dude. Okay, I'm three for six. We can count that one if you want. Hey, no, we can count. I mean, no, no, no, no. That's number seven. Number seven. Oh, I don't get a joke seven?

Okay, cool. No, your mouse is pressed. Sorry. Oh, right. Sorry. Oh, actually, yeah, we should. Why don't you, this is really hard. If you don't know that record.

Talk amongst yourselves. Just talk about how you thought about your performance while I find it. No, no, no, my performance has not been good. And if you want to tell me about it, you can go to you'll hear it.com. And you could tell me how much I kind of sucked on this. You know what? I will say I got six out of seven on my first blindfold test. And I'm just, I was feeling the pressure of your seven out of seven last week was impressive and intimidating.

Well, maybe you threw me some more softballs. And so I'm going to throw you softball, but this is the thing. You're going to have to get it really fast. Okay. Okay. Okay. The story is BIG. He's back in there.

In the positive. We could roll out on this, could we? We could roll out, and we will roll out. Like I said, go to you'll hear it.com. What? Get some swag. Leave us some message. Especially if you're feeling this good.

And until next time, you'll hear it.