You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Blindfold Test: Peter - #34

Episode Date: October 11, 2018

Today, Peter attempts to redeem himself in his second blindfold listening test. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Peter, can you see anything? I can't see any. I've got a blindfold on. Who are you? You know what that means. Blindfold test. Oh. I'm Adamannis.

And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the Yule here at podcast. Daily Jazz advice coming at you. One of my favorite days, Pete, that's the blindfold test days. That's where I get to try to stump you on stuff. You ought to know. Right. That has not proved difficult the past few weeks.

Full disclosure here. Week one, bad. I love it because you are one of the musicians, with the biggest ears I've ever met. And then you're like, who is that? Jackie Bayard? I get a little too granular. And it's like Herbie Hancock.

It's like a record, or it's you. It was my favorite. And you were like, is that Muldrew Miller? No, it's you, man. That's you from like four years ago. Yeah, great sense of self-awareness. All right, let's get this going. So what we're looking for here is any kind of success at all.

Dude, I'm looking to be like, that's jazz. We're looking for the name of the pianist. Now, this might not be the pianist album, but we just need you to identify the pianist by their sound. So you're just clowning on me at this point. You've set the bar, you're just like, identify the, you know, the album, the leader, the other friends. I'm just trying to help you out. Okay, thanks. All right.

Here we go. We're going to start there and build up. First, first example. Mm, he's good. Oh, Bup Powell. Yeah. That's got to be Bupov. Yeah.

I don't know. Wait, keep playing it because I want to see if I know what track this is. That sounds like Mackey. Roach on the hi-hat. That's got to be Max, right? I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah, and the left, I mean, actually, even the line, the left hand, you know what I'm like... I mean, there's an occasional Richie Powell that it would almost sound like...

This is definitely Bob Powell. It is but Powell. Okay. This is a... Do you a bit of a bit of up? Yep. Yep. Hackensack? Nope. Close. Hackie sack?

50 Second Street. 50 Second Street theme. Yeah, yeah. Nice. Okay. Cool. All right. Nailed it. Kind of. Yeah, no, you got it. You got that one for sure.

One for one. All right. You ready for the second one? Oh, we got more? Oh, that. This is number two. It's only number two. But you're one for one. Thank you. Here we go. Okay.

Mm. Sunny Rollins. Yeah. But who's the pianist? Oh. I can barely hear the piano. It's a very famous album. I'm a miscapade. Is that Tommy Flanagan? It is Tommy Flanagan. Yeah.

Saxon Collas. Strode Road. Yeah, of the track. Yeah, I know this record pretty well, actually. just kind of blanking all the names and stuff. Yeah. Tommy Flanning. Two for two, buddy. Okay, this is how we roll.

Can I get a wood, wood? Are you ready? Yeah. Number three. Okay. Keith Jared. Oh, that was fast. Yeah. And this is...

All the things you are. From... I don't really know what record... I've heard of play this so many times. It's standards volume one. Okay, okay. So this studio. Right?

Oh, no. Maybe... I think it is studio. No, no, no. Is this live? I think it was live. I get confused. I just listen to this record.

The standards live, volume one, volume two, it never let me go is great. Of course, Jack Dugnet. These are so good. Have you seen some of the videos

from this era? Yes. Everything is amazing. Except Keith's shoes. His white nursing rebox are not killing. Love you, Keith. Would you call those, are they trending nursing or Mallwalking?

You could sell those for $450 in Brooklyn right now. Yeah, because they're like dad's shoes from there. All right. Ready? Yeah. Wait, why are we, I'm kind of doing well today. Can we slow down and just like glory? Okay, so you are three for three. Well, I didn't. Okay, really?

That's pretty impressive. Yeah. This one might throw you. These are pretty easy, too. This one might throw you. Okay. Ready? Oh, well, Wayne Shorter's, soothsaying? No. Wayne Shorter, but it's definitely Bluno, like, 63, 64. Yep.

I got to listen. It's either Herbie or McCoy. Which one? I can't tell. I mean, I just don't remember. I'm in the fun of the thing. That's so good. Isn't it? I know. That's Herbie. It is Herbie. Yeah, yeah.

Well, his first voices were like McCoy, boys. Kind of, yeah. Now, this is, et cetera. Oh, et cetera, of course. Why I say, Suez-Stra. I don't think we've ever mentioned, et cetera, on the podcast. And it's one of the best albums of that era, I think, of any band. Absolutely, et cetera, uh, soothsayer.

There's a couple others. I used to listen to it a lot. Because what happened was I got into Herbie from like Miles Davis recordings and stuff. Actually, from Rocket and trying to be like, wika, wika, wika, wika. Yeah. And then, um, talk about it. about reverse engineering, and then I just started looking for any records that, that this is so crazy and embarrassing, but I'm doing so well today, I can put it up there.

But I'm four for five for five. Oh, hello. No, you're four for four, so. Okay, but I wasn't really into McCoy. I couldn't hear him yet, although I hadn't heard him much. I loved Herbie, so I'd look at any Blueno records, and this is right around like 84, 85. Wait, and if you saw McCoy, you'd be like, nah, nah, nah, thumbs down. And I'd only, like, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Short or anything.

That's great. Only if Herbie got was on it. That's great. All right. No, that's ignorant, actually, but thank you. Number five. Okay. Man, it sounds like this is definitely a newer record.

Like 90s, 2000s, maybe. 80s? 90s, I don't know. Oh. Okay. Oh. That's Mulgroom. Yep.

Yeah. That octave in a left hand. That's Mulgroom. Oh, if you hadn't known that, I might not. Oh, no, I would have heard it. Me either. I don't know this record. Wingspan.

Oh, yeah, of course. Steve Wilson, Steve Nelson. Steve Nelson. The great Steve Nelson, the great Melgru Miller, Wingsman. Dude, you are 5 for 5. This is ridiculous. How many more we got? All right, we have two more, and this one is a curveball.

Ready? Oh, boy. Coming at me. Coming at me. Don't duck. Bill Evans. Yes. Bill Evans.

I was wondering if you catch you. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, that's pretty classic Bill. I don't know what record is. It's not a very famous track. It's like one of those Riverside. Yeah, it's Israel. Yeah.

Israel. Yeah. Israel. Okay. Yeah. enough like six for six bro. Listen that stereo separation. I know right.

Snare drum hard right. This was a Verve remaster from the 90s. Okay. I like it. The sound on it, I love the bass and I don't even mind the super separation. To me, this didn't totally capture the amount of sound, Bill Evans. And he's understated, but it's so like muted in the middle of all this other, you know. I know.

I like it wider, but sounds great. Oh. This is some of my favorite of his playing in that one. Absolutely. Super swinging. All right. You are. Six for six.

Six for six, my friend. Well, you know, the listeners don't even know. We actually did one of these where I turned out O for seven, and we didn't even put it out. It was so bad. So six for seven, we could just stop here. Six for six, sorry. We're not going to. We're not going to.

Okay, this is going to be a tough one. We're going to end with a classic. Beyonce. Number seven. You ready? That's Hans Groiner. That's nothing but the great Hans Grunner from. Bavaria or from Austria.

No, Austria, sorry. Playing some of the music of thelonious Monk in his own illustrious beautiful style. That's right. His version of where you need Larry Goldings. Barry Goldings. Bam, seven for seven. Peace. And I'm all. Well, that'll be it for us

around here for a while. He's not going to let us. I'm never going to do it. I'm never going to do it. He's not going to let us live this down. Yeah, I didn't think you were ever going to do it when you went 0 for 7. But I don't know. It might be worse. It's going to have gone 7 for 7. You'd be like, no, I'm untouchable. Obviously, you're really great. at putting these together for me.

You've got a real golden touch there, Adam. Totally nothing. You're totally impossible or just. Although, you know what? I mean, none of those, I would say all, let me see if I can remember. Mulgrew, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock,

Bud Powell. Yeah. Who else do we have? Keith, Keith Jarrett. And one more? Tommy Flanagan. That would have been, that was my hardest one.

I don't know how I, because I recognized that recording, remembered him. That had I not known that, that would have been, I wouldn't have gotten that one. That's hard. If it was just like a Tommy Flanagan record. Yeah. But all those other pianists, although I love Tommy Flan and heard him a lot, heard him live,

but all those other pianists, like, I've listened to it a lot. So about half of them, I kind of knew the recordings and half, I just, they did some stuff that was so classic. I may or may not have thrown in some softballs. But, you know, we're here to help each other. Well, the biggest softball was all I got to do is named the pianist. I mean, for real, like, downbeat, you know, things. It's like, you know, the year and the record label and the assistant engineer and all that crap. Well, if you want to give us a suggestion or just give Peter lavish praise for his job here today, you can go to eulhear.com.

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It feels great out there. You're hitting the flannel hard already. I'm in the flannel hard. I'm hitting the grits hard. Hit the grits. Nice. It gives you grit. That's right.

Until next time, you'll hear it.