You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - First Take Friday: Sam Fribush Organ Trio

Episode Date: November 5, 2021

Join Peter and Adam in the listening room on First Take Friday as they pull up the first track from The Sam Fribush Organ Trio: Vol. 1 'Riverboat', featuring Charlie Hunter and Geoff Clapp.Get your copy of the featured album: link.youllhearit.com/samfribushListen on Spotify: link.youllhearit.com/listen-samfribushHave a question for us? Leave us a SpeakPipe: link.youllhearit.com/speakpipeSupport the pod by spreading the word with the link youllhearit.com Learn more about Open Studio Pro: openstudiojazz.com/proInterested 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

Hey, Peter. Hey, are you cool if I'm a little negative today? Yeah, but would you, how could you be negative with this guy? Hey, check this out. Oh, oh, oh. It's hard to be negative. Okay, I'm turning my frown upside down. That's what I thought.

It's about to be a smile up in here. Wait, is today first take Friday? Oh, I'm happy now. I'm Adamannis. And I'm Peter Martin. You listen to the You'll Hear podcast. Music, advice, inspiration, dope. Musical discoveries.

And first take Friday. It's first take Friday, man. A Friday. Happy Friday. Happy Friday to you. It's our new feature. If you were looking for new music to check out, if you were looking for two dudes to talk about no music.

I'm going to fix that for you right now. That's right, because it's first take Friday. We're listening to the first track of something that's new to us. This actually isn't a new album. And it's not new to us, and it's not the first track. Well, no, that wasn't the first track. That was a bit of Will it go around in circles. This is from the brand new Sam Frybush organ trio.

So we talked about Sam on the podcast before. Yes. keyboardist, pianist, organist. Whippersnapper. He's super talented. I don't know what that means. Out of North Carolina. And here he is with... By the way of New Orleans, Louisiana.

That's right. I got to talk like I got molesters in my mouth. This is what I've been listening to, man, on repeat, since I got the vinyl. There was a shortage of vinyl for a long time. So I ordered this months and months ago, and it finally came and, Sam, I'm digging the album, especially on vinyl. It sounds so, so good. I wish we had a turntable in here, dude.

What's up? You know, it's coming. coming. Come on, man. Give us a chance. I would make it awesome. But if you can get this on any streaming platform that you are on, but also go to samfreybush.com and order the vinyl. You know, support the artist. Absolutely. But I got to say this. As much as I love vinyl, I know you do. I love the sound of it. I was at a hotel recently. Big shout out to the Verb Hotel in Boston. Great, great spot there. And we spent some nice days there. My wife and I, the beautiful and talented Kelly Martin. And cool thing there is they have turntables. And it.

every room. What? Yeah, and they had some great records there that you could just kind of bring from the lobby and stuff. And it was great, but a little thing I forgot about, I don't know if you forgot about this.

Skipping records. That's no fun. Oh, yeah, if you got a scratchy record, that's no fun. Yeah, these are ones people are like, there's no, like, there's just like putting them in the,

you know, there. So, I mean, yeah, we all love that, but there's nothing wrong with, you know, spot, I never heard Spotify skip. Well, this Sam Fryebush Riverboat volume one,

it didn't skip at all. And in fact, it was amazing. So I think, So if you don't know, first take Fridays, we listen to the first track off of an album that's new to us. And generally, we've been hitting new, new records. We listened to Terrence Blancher's wonderful new release with his E-collective last week. This came out in March, so not new, new, new, but new enough. So new-ish.

And also, I just thought about this. Actually, I've been listening to this all week, so it's not new to me at all. Well, but we said it had to be new to one of us. So this should be completely new to you. I think you're going to dig this. This has a friend of the show, Jeff Clack. Friend of the show, occasionally known. as to show up as guest host.

Yeah, he's been on the show. Great drummer Jeff Clap. I think this first track, Riverboat, this is Alan Gusson and Lee Dorsey's Riverboat. Oh, yeah. This really showcases what Clapper dapper's great at, man. Clapper dapper, the great Charlie Hunter, of course, master of all things.

Genius. Charlie Hunter. And young Sam Frybush. Let's check it out. All right. Okay, can we stop right there? I've already got things to say. I'm loving it.

I'm loving it. You're digging it. Okay. So that is almost like a damn. near perfect intro there, would you say? That's beautiful. Yeah. Big shot out. How great to those drums sound. Oh my God. I mean, I feel like I'm inside of that bass drum, but in a happy place.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not a harsh place, a happy place. Yeah. Can let's do it again? Let's do it again. Can I savor this? If only clap had some feel. Oh, man. The scene feels so great. He's all over this. I know, here it is. Yeah. That little bit of movement and that ting. I mean, little details. Details, young, young fellows and young ladies. Nice backbeat. Trying?

I thought dry the drums are here too. Pause just right there every second. I hate to even disrupt it. But you know, the folks are paying good money to hear comments on this. To give our reaction. This is 100% free. Okay. So what you mentioned about the drums being super dry, agree.

I mean, obviously. But they are very like wide and very present. Yeah. And so then the drums. guitar's got a lot of, you know, very natural effects on it. There's some reverb. You know, yeah, reverb. Some reverb on the B3 as well.

Yep. And so that's a really kind of compelling sort of a mix, though, you know. It really is. Because it really, like, you feel like it's almost like you're sort of standing in between all three of them and then you're kind of hearing the currents of what the room are with the drums there and stuff. It's not like somebody's, you know, I like to think about this on records. There's different ways to do this.

But I love it when it's not like the, you're not. getting what the engineer would be thinking you'd get in a club or a concert hall as like the front of house engineer. Because sometimes they're mixing it for that. Right. You're using the room as it is. Using the room as it is. And sometimes it's dry, you know. Also,

can we get a big shout out to patience for providing such beautiful musical moments here? But I think that clap really set that up nicely with that very simple intro, but he kind of set the tone for the patience. And then Hunter can, and contrary to popular belief, Charlie Hunter can still kill it, even when he's not playing a baseline and comping and soloing all this,

which he can do as well. Just playing the guitar. It's not bad. I thought there was going to be a problem with the or with Sam, you know, hitting those bass bass lines, but it's all good. And Sam Freibush on the,

on the Hammond organ here, like all the textures, man. That's when I get on organ, I'm like, I don't know how to do it. I know the notes, but like all these dudes who are so good at this. It's incredible. He's a real student of the game here too.

Yeah. Let's keep going. Should we pick it up? Yeah. Oregon soul. Now some tasty copying by Hunter there. That sound on the ham. It always sounds out of tune to me, but in a luscious, beautiful way.

Every phrase is a different sound. Noodles. Noodles. Poodles McGee! Oh, we got to hear that again. Clap shows some interspersion but suspense and restraint all at the same time. Well, listen to the conversation here. Obviously, Charlie Hunter, he comes in hot.

Coming in hot. And clap answers. At bass drum. Right. But just to write them out. He got microtonel. He's playing more notes than you're supposed to have in there. More than we have on the channel.

They don't exist. They got a vibe these guys. The non-agcoholic beer and vegan food available is wherever they're playing. I can tell you that right now. How great is that? Come on now. Beautiful! It is beautiful, actually.

The sound is beautiful. Shout out to those three guys and the engineer for such beautiful, luscious. Am I adding it at all to the vibe? Nope. No, but I just wanted to... You know, it's... I really go back to, can we just listen to that intro one more time? Because I think that this is sometimes stuff that we,

we don't necessarily miss, the listener gets this, but it's very interesting to me to think about things that happen from great musicians that they intend to do, I believe. Yep. But they are not conscious of it probably. Okay. Like, because you would have to kind of be thinking about it a little bit too granularly

and too much into the future. granularly. Granularly. I didn't think about how to say that word. if it is a word. But you know what I'm saying? Like the fact that he sets up the patience. I'm playing and tell you what it is later.

Exactly. Thank you, Miles Davis. The patience and the groove and the feel and like the sound and the nuanced way of approaching the group, he sets out all up with this very simple intro. Totally. But upon first blush, you might just be like, oh, that's just a nice little grooving thing. No, listen to the details. But as it all unfolds, you know, it's all connected. All right.

One more time, just for you, Pete. Thank you. That movement on the snare is important. you know and then that little twi-th-thling that little bell that bass now we know that's coming back so it's almost like he's putting cool little foreshadowing thoughts into the other musicians heads and the listener but in such a subtle just cool dope way that's what we're all about here folks coolness and doepeness so go check it out that's riverboat volume one we'll put a link to pick this up oh that'd be great yeah Sam Freibush organ trio Sam Freibush on

the Hammond organ, Charlie Hunter on guitar, and Jeff Clap on the drums. Yeah, good stuff. I love, so far, first take Friday. It's refreshing, right? It's very fun. It's good. Yeah, that's really good. Would that be something you might be interested?

Yeah, 100%. 100%. All right, Pete, well, I will see you back here on Monday. Until then, you'll hear it.