You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Can We Stump Adam?

Episode Date: May 6, 2022

Peter has selected three count em' THREE tracks to try and stump Adam with on this episode in response to the last episode. Have a question for us? Leave us a SpeakPipeCheckout courses from Adam, Peter and more at Open StudioLet us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Twitter | Instagram

Hey, Adam. Yeah. We've turned the tables. This is really weird. We've moved the chairs. We are on opposite sides. I don't know if I can do the podcast like this, man. Really?

And you know what I'm in control of? What? I can press that as many, whoa. As many times as I want. Please don't. What about this one? Hi, I'm Adam Ennis. And I'm Peter Martin.

And this is the You'll Hear a podcast. Jazz. Explained. Oh, that's kind of weird. That's really weird. I threw you off there, but you fell right into it. Also, you're fading the wrong thing here. Am I really?

Sorry. Put that back. There you go. Put that back. I'm trying here. Give this a board. Hey, buddy. That's all you need to know. Okay.

Okay. So this is the regular podcast, but I am in fact Peter Martin. And this makes no sense to people because they can't see us in here. But we switch seats, which nobody cares. That's this great podcasting. Yeah. Just talking about the visual of the studio. I'm in Adam's seat and Adam is in my seat because we're doing a reversal.

That was fun the other day, by the way. Yeah. If you haven't checked out the last episode, continue listening to this and then go back and listen to that. But we did a little a blindfold test that Adam set up for me. That's why we had to switch chairs so that I could play the music and he couldn't see it because the last episode he played the music. I couldn't see it and I had to guess three different pianists.

And I've set up three tracks of pianists as well, hopefully along the same vein. Hopefully it's not too challenged but not enough. I felt like you threw me sort of some softballs. But I didn't really know them. So there was that. I mean, I guessed them, but I didn't really know the tracks. so I'm really interested to see how you do. I do have a bonus.

I'm so bad at this. A little surprise bonus. I'm so bad at this. How do you know? We haven't started yet. I know. I'm always bad. Let me paint a picture here.

We're in the studio. Adam looks dejected. His shoulders are slumped. He was putting his head down. Now he's smiling. You know what? I got to change my body language here. Yeah, change.

I'm here to, I'm here to. I'm here to win. I'm here to win. That's right. Right. He's putting some more spin drift, adding in him with his espresso, I believe. Let me have a couple breaths here.

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com slash pro. I love that reverse marketing we're doing there. That's right. But what we're going to do today, let me just give you a little bit of the ground rules. This is going to be very similar to Wednesday's episode, the last episode. But the tables have turned. Okay. And I have selected three tracks.

can be from any era. Well, they have to be from the recorded, modern recorded era. So since whatever, 1895. They are in, I'll give you a couple of hints. They're in the jazz genre. What's your favorite banger from 1895? Jelly Roll Morton in the hot 17s.

Yeah, so these are all featuring prominently jazz pianists. And in fact, that's kind of the crux of the conundrum. We are asking our dear. listener today at a manis to solve who is that pianist now bonus points for who is the whatever other instruments even the name of the track perhaps how many bonus points the album not many but i mean you know we'll work it all together but we're really trying to identify the pianist and um okay so here's the first one are you ready first of all i'm ready do you have any opening remarks for our dear listeners i'm nervous but i'm ready okay we're going to start out here do you want me to tell you who it is

oh no i guess i can't do that yeah i do it won't tell you Yeah. I might have the right levels here. You're nervously... There it is. Sorry. That's the accident. Is it Oscar Peterson playing Blue Monk?

No. I'm going to give you a hint because you gave me some hints. So, Winton Kelly, playing Blue Monk. No. I'm so good. I like both. That... This is very early in this...

McCoy Tyner playing Blue Monk. Thank you. Very, that's early McCoy. Very early McCoy. And so when you got to that phrase, I was about to say, that typifies his style, and then you got it one day. I should have, I should have listened a little...

He was kind of doing Oscar Peterson a little bit of his version of that, but now it's so cool, because this is from Knights of Ballads and Blues, one of the real early Impulse records. 1960, maybe. 62. Oh, okay.

So funny to hear him play like this, man. Yeah. Still finding his voice. Yeah. That's a good one, actually. 63. Yeah. All right, you did pretty good.

I mean, I got two wrong before I got the right. Okay, that's okay. It's okay. All right. Well, are you ready for the next one? Yes. I want to take my time on this one. Yeah.

Remember, I took me a long time. Yeah. I'm going to really... Okay. Let me see which one. That's the strategy. It's not to just go out the gate with like, Oscar Peterson.

Right. Uh-oh. I'm going to have to find another one. Okay, no, this is good. Here we go. You ready? Yep. Well, I mean, it sure sounds like Brad Meldow.

If it's not someone very influenced by Brad Maldow. That's Brad Meldow. Okay. Wait, was I supposed to tell it? Yeah, yeah, of course. But that's the hard thing with this. Once, like, you go with your instinct, but then you're like, wait, it could be somebody. Is this volume two or volume one?

Volume one. Yeah. Yeah, that's an easy, that's an easy rhythmic feel. Volume one, Warner Brothers Records. Live? Is this live? No, this is not live. No, number two and four were live.

Okay. His touch and his rhythmic feeler, easily identifiable, especially in this period. You know, it's got his Brad stuff going. Not like the McCoy stuff, which that was not like the typical McCoy sound. Right. But this is, I think, a very typical Bradman. Very much so. All right. Good. Well, you nailed that one. Okay.

Okay. Got one. I'm happy I got one. Yeah, I realized I actually, the third track, I screwed this up. There's another Brad Melo, so we're not going to do that. I don't know why I put two on there. Because that was supposed to be your softball ones. Those are, thank you. That's my weird.

But I also knew it was a little bit of a challenge because of exactly what happens. It's so easy to be like, wait, is that somebody? I mean, it could almost be like, is that a key chair at trio that I have? I mean, no, no, not really. I don't think you're going to guess that. But you might guess somebody, many of these pianists now that are influenced. Well, yeah. If you don't know the exact track.

Totally, totally. There's plenty of folks you could say. Okay. All right, you ready? I'm ready. So this one is a little bit of a wild card, but yet it isn't. Okay. I don't know if that helps at all.

So you ready? Yeah. It's a wild card, because I have trouble navigating your. system here. It's literally Spotify. Your proprietary is it. It's O.P. Right? Yes. So it's not a wild card.

It would be a wild card. Okay, but now see if you can guess the album, the tune. Okay. Very good. Very good. It's been Webster? I think so I'm just checking to make sure I'm, that's what I thought.

Sounds like a good Webster. I don't even know where I would check that. We're going to say yes I don't know the album But it could be Ella and Oscar Yeah They make one It's a

You want me to tell you You want to listen The name of an album Or don't know the name of them This is the Sing's Duke Gallington Ella And Oscar sings to do Galington

Right She was doing all those songbook stuff Exactly He was too during this time Exactly Verve Ella Fitzgerald's He's got into songbook

Google that and see who's, uh, I'm going to say, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown. Do you hear guitar? Stuff Smith. On tenor? No, Ben Webster, Stuff Smith play bass in me. Herbellis, you're right.

Yeah. Oh, they're on here, man. He's playing drums? Um. I would just like to say that I got that in five seconds, by the way. Not to be braggadocious. Yeah. He's on some of the other tracks on here.

Great violinist. Five seconds, one phrase. Now, I'm just saying. Can you play from the top again? Because I'll tell you when I knew it. Well, we all heard it. We showed it in real time. I just went out.

I'm so bad at this that I'm now going to glow slightly. Your computer froze up. Are you serious, man? It's never happened to you before, right? Not once. Let me paint a picture here. We're in the studio. I am on Adam's very new, like 17-inch.

Well, no, how new is this? 2014 is not new. Okay. Yeah, no, it's totally frozen up. Well, there you go. You'll hear you at Stemford literally, what are we at? 10 minutes and 15 seconds and breaks the studio. No, you know what?

It's all good because I'm going to restart it. We're going to talk about this because I do have a bonus track for you. I'm super excited about. Why you look so dejected, man? Let's keep the pod going, man. I'm fascinated by what's happening. I mean, I didn't try to break it. It broke, man.

You know what? We're restarting it. This is like, so my mother, Rose. Yeah. Mrs. Martin. I know Mrs. Manis as well. This could be a situation. Do they ever call you and say my computer's not working?

Can you come home and fix it, honey? My parents know not to do that to me as much. You're such a loving son. I've done it before. I mean, I've helped them with Zoom during the pandemic. But they're actually pretty good. Yeah. My mom is especially pretty good at the technological stuff.

You know, she's really good at calling other people, like calling help lines. Because you're just a horrible son that won't help her? Listen, that's restarting. Dude, how could you know? Well, no, why wouldn't she call her favorite son? Because I don't know. She just likes calling the people who are on the support line. Right.

And she'll sit for hours. She has no, like, she's retired. She doesn't care. She'll be like, well, Bethany, if you can't help me, I don't know who could. That's right. And then Bethany's like, oh, I do. Hold on. Please hold.

Yeah, exactly. So let me paint the picture further. Adam's computer. There's a picture of an Apple now. Is this going to be progress bar? Yes. Oh, my God. You're going to be, the bonus track is going to be so much.

Plus, this could kind of push you over the edge because I think I had one wrong. You've got one wrong. So technically you could surpass me on this one. Okay. Which is making me rethink my. about the bonus? Because I could actually win this. Yeah, you can actually win it.

How are we doing with that progress bar, Pete? Well, it's progressing. Okay, do I, do I log in as Adam, man? This must be gripping to people. Oh, what's your password? Oh, let me mute. Okay, we're back. Thank you.

This is gripping radio. This is like, oh, did you ever listen to Jack Benny radio hour back in the 40s or 50s? What am I 75 years old? What are you talking about? not either but I've heard tapes of it. Okay, so we're going back to the Spotify and we're going to pull up. This is the bonus track. So let's just review. We started out with

Young McCoy. Young McCoy. And I... Which you mentioned perhaps Oscar Peterson, but we went full... Well, he was doing his Oscar thing. Right, exactly. I don't know why I said Witten Kelly. You know what it was? You know why Witton Kelly was my second guest after you poo-poot Oscar Peterson? Yeah. It's because

the touch, if you think about it... Yeah. If you really think about it, if McCoy tried to play like Oscar Peterson, it would sound a little like Witten Kelly. That's true. You know what I mean? That is absolutely true. So I'm going to give myself a little. You could have got that. You actually didn't give yourself enough time on that. That was my rookie mistake of like going out of the gate. And then we listened to a little Brad Meldow. Which I thought was going to be the biggest. I thought you knew that. But I think you know so many of his records. They probably all blend together at this point. Honestly, I could have got the

Brad Meldon that one in five seconds. But I was a little gun shy after the, after the McCoy thing. Right. So I wanted to like listen. But I was fairly certain out of the gate. And then we went to this track. And I'm just playing this to make sure we can So you don't break the computer again. Okay, we're good. We're good. I mean, Ella Fitzgerald was swinging hard on that. I think she broke.

I mean, that's easy. That's easy. If you're an Oscar Peterson fan. So this last track is not going to be a question that you know it. I want to see how quick you know it. You can name the pianist. The album. Kirby Hancock,

Swamp Rat from Secrets. That was very good. There we go. I thought this would be a fun way to go a lot of. So you started with your shoulder slump. You're going to end with them. I feel great. And by the way, this means I won because I got three and you only got two.

I know. Even though I said, I was rethinking it. I had to restart the computer for this. It was worth it, right? This was worth it. Now I'm in a great word. Oh, my God. All right.

Well, thanks for doing this, Adam. And we will be back next week for more you'll hear it. I feel like we should give anybody who stuck around to the end of this episode, some kind of T-shirt or something. We're getting them swap ride. You know what? This track I realized somehow, like, I always. thought of like a lot of these titles from this period as being like have nothing new with the music but think about a little swamp rat you've ever seen a swamp rat like down a river

to pair of those big rats this sounds like think about him dancing like a lot of river to pair references in today's report hold on we got hook hold on this is the part uh-oh hold on hold on oh oh look at it he's grooving come on you'll hear it I don't know.