You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Charles Lloyd & the Marvels: Tone Poem

Episode Date: January 14, 2022

First Take Friday! Listen with Peter and Adam as they put Charles Lloyd & the Marvels: Tone Poem on the turntable. First track: PeaceListen to the Tune |  AlbumBuy the VinylCheck out Reuben Rogers and Bob DeBoo's bass podcast: Upright CitizensWoosh or No Woosh? Hit us up on Twitter and let us know which team you are onCheck out Open Studio Pro hereSupport the pod by spreading the word with the link youllhearit.com Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Twitter | Instagram

Feature, feature, feature. Feature Fridays. This is Feature Friday. First Watch Friday. Oh, my God. First Watch is a restaurant. Oh, that's right. First take Friday.

First take Friday. That's what I said. Bam. I'm Adam Mness. And I'm Peter Martin. And you'll listen to the You'll Hear podcast. Music, advice, inspiration, and listening Marvel. Coming at you.

Oh, man. This is one of my favorite features. And I'm glad you said Marvel because we're listening to some marvels. We're listening to Charles Lloyd and the marvels from his new record tone poem. Poem. Poem. Poem. That's a hard one to say.

Poem. Poem. Poem. Poem. Poem. Poem. You say poem. Poemm.

You say salmon or Salman? I think the best part about this episode is we're going to listen to Peter say poem for like. Poem. Poem. Now it's like, it's not even a word. It's all in my head. It's all in my head. You're talking my rhythm on Wednesday.

It's all in my head now. No. So we were just talking about Charles Lloyd. He's my spirit animal. Peter, he's my inspiration, my personal hero. He's my Zen gangster, musician. Absolutely.

That's that. And guru, all those things. Me as well. I mean, I don't want to steal him from you, but he's, uh, I mean, look, he's a master. He's such a cool dude. He's, his creative output, um, you know, has never been huge. But if you start thinking about the last few years, it's gotten, I mean, certainly a fair a mile, but mainly just the quality level of his recordings is just, and live performances.

Yeah. He's, he keeps it, he doesn't keep it real. He keeps it high quality. He's playing so. great here in sort of his latest chapter, too, of his life. And it's like prolific yet economical at the same time. It's unbelievable. It's so, it's exactly the kind of music that speaks right to me.

There's a lot of blues in it. There's a lot of modernity in it. There's a lot of minimalism in it. Is this, this better be stupid. It's so great. And this record in particular is, that we're listening to today. This better be nominated for Grammy. You know what?

I shudder to even look, because I don't care. It should be. Every time that, yeah, I'm sure it is. Every time that Ruben Rogers, who plays bass on this record, every time he's through town, which, you know,

Ruben's an open studio artist. Friend of the pod. Friend of the pod. Big shout out to... He's an open studio podcaster. That's right. Bob DeBoo and Ruben Rogers, Upright Citizens,

check that out. Big hit bass podcast over on our open studio network of podcasts. Yep. And Rubin, I corner him, at least the last time he was in town, I was like, what's it like,

what's it like, what do you do? And he's certainly like Rubin So, he's like, I don't know, it's a gig. It's like what we all do. You know?

And I'm like, how amazing. I don't know. You know. I do not believe this is now, see, I'm a little angry. I'm going to need to listen to the subtle, supple sounds of Charles Lloyd to take me off of my anger because I do not believe this is nominated for a Grammy Award. Oh, that's silly. This is so good.

So this is tone poem. It's the third. A big shout out to the Grammy. Oh, actually, I'm on. I should have, did I vote for this? I'm sure I did. Okay. Anyway, sorry.

This is the third full-length album by Charles Lloyd and the Marvels. And the Marvels, of course, are Bill Frizzell on guitar. Greg Leitz on pedal steel guitar, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harlan on drums now is... Would that be something you might be interested in? I love this band. It's a great band.

Of course. And this... It's a marvelous band. This band is incredible. These three albums are amazing. And we'll listen here to the very first track, which is actually an Ornett Coleman tune called Peace. I think this is from the Schaeferstein.

Yeah, and I mean, it's such an iconic ornette. tune this is like to be to place this at the beginning of your album you're making a statement like oh i got this yeah well i can connect here it's the master so this is ornett cullman's piece played by charles and the marvels from his new album tone poem poem those bass lines check in on those that's some brilliant word rogers yeah stop i just i got a comment on a couple things and i hate to break the groove up but so this is they're playing in free yeah right and this is but with a groove With a groove. This is at the very highest level

that you will ever hear this. I mean, I just think this is like masters working on this. This is so hard to make it sound this. I know. And I mean, I think that it's, you know, it's certainly flowing right from the way Ornett played.

Absolutely. But it's just so like also just turning the page at the same time. Riggin, Eric Harland, and Ruben Rogers on this. Oh, man. It's totally free. Yeah. How do you play free and crew?

This is how you do it. And the way to guitar on the pedal. P-dase or something? I know. I mean, The way the pedal steel and the guitar are not, I mean, they're complimenting each other. That's very hard.

Very, very hard. Yeah. Total freedom. Total freedom. This is free 99. It's like the phrasing of the melody was leading the pacing of it. I could listen to Eric Harlan wait for a bus. I mean, that's just, it's amazing.

Man, those last couple notes that Lloyd played, I mean, it's like no, I believe there was no vibrato. Yeah. And, I mean, the intonation was just. so spot on, but the timbre and the texture and just the soul and sound of each one of those. Beautiful. I mean, it was a line, but each one had its own person. Wow. Beautiful. And I love this cover. You've got to go check out the cover of Tone Palm. Charles Lloyd, probably Hall of Famer Beaniewearer along with Sonny Rollins and Jaco Pistorius.

Now, am I wrong, or is Charles Lloyd and Joe Livano starting to kind of look a little bit alike? I hate to even say a little bit. Maybe it's the Beanie. and the beard. Beanie's in beard will do that. And badass saxophone players. So there's that. We'll go check it out on wherever you can buy your records. I recommend actually with Charles Lloyd.

Where do you buy your records? No. You buy your records. No, I buy my Charles Lloyd records. I have them on CD, which I really love. Where do you buy them? On Amazon.com or some other evil. We'll have a link below.

No, but I recommend some vinyl if you can, if you can afford it and you have the setup because it's worth. I wonder if they do any vinyl on, I guess they would be, but this is a blue note. It does. Yeah, Blue Note does. And it's worth the investment, and it's worth your attention. It's $43.74. I'm looking now. But that's what I'm saying.

And they're out of stock. But we're going to put a link anyway. Supply chain issues. I'm sorry. No, no, no. I heard a great quote from someone the other day that when there's so much content, it's not quality that is scarce. It's really your attention that's scarce.

So for me, when I spend 50 bucks on buying a record, that forces me to put my attention to where I want it, which is on this kind of music, as opposed to getting sort of like Rosen with, oh, there's so many options on Spotify. I know. You know what I know? For sure. So go check it out.

Yeah, could you imagine sitting down for an evening with this, with this LP and perhaps a, you know, you could do like a mile back from Argentina? I mean, there's a lot of ways you could go with that. But if you go to, if you buy the vinyl or if you're just going to sit down and listen to this, try not to like, I'm not trying to get preachy here, but, you know, like, I find myself doing this and I get pissed off, right?

I'll sit down and listen something and then like start scrolling through my phone. Right. Put your phone in the other room. How about a little restricted listening? We have restricted practicing. Why can't we have restrictive listening? Yeah, exactly. A little focused, intentional listening.

Maybe a little, what do you call it, handcuffs on as you're sitting? No, not handcuffs. If your hands are tied behind it. So you can't grab your phone or do anything. You're just sitting there listening. It's getting weird. Well, until next time. You'll hear it.