You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Grammy Breakdown!

Episode Date: April 8, 2022

Kaleb discusses what happened with the Jazz affiliated community and the 64th Grammy Award ceremony! Check out the winners on this Spotify Playlist!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

What's up everybody? This is Caleb Kirby here in the You'll hear at Studios. That's right. I'm here alone today and that's no big deal. I'm missing Adam and Peter, but they got other stuff going on. You know what I wanted to talk about today? I wanted to talk about the 64th Grammy Award winning ceremony. Yeah, that's right. So we had a lot of amazing representation from the jazz community this year. And the first person I wanted to talk about is John Batiste, who is an incredible artist from New Orleans. He was great. kind of the overall winner for the Grammys this year, five Grammys, uh, definitely looking like the jazz community is well represented. Um, and he is winning for a popular music album. I mean,

obviously he relates to a lot of people. And this album is, uh, no joke. It's called we are, um, in parentheses, the deluxe edition. And we're going to listen to the first track here called we are. Incredible stuff.

Incredible stuff. Um, so remember we're going to link a Spotify playlist to all the winners. that we talk about today on the podcast. So if you're unfamiliar with any of these albums, you've got to go to that description and check up from there where you can see all these are really amazing albums and these cool tracks.

So the next person I want to talk about is a person that we're all familiar with, ideally, named Esperanza Spalding. Incredible artist, upright bass player and vocalist, and she won Best Jazz Vocal album this year, which is really cool for this album called Song Rights Apothecary Lab. Incredible.

This track we're going to play is called Formuela I. You know, to my ear, like this whole album flows together, like, as if it's one thing. So really the tracks are just separations, almost kind of like chapters or something. I really encourage you to go in and check out the rest of this album because just the first track does not do it justice. But until you do that, here is a nice example of Formuela I by Esperanza Spalding. haunting for real incredible work and I highly encourage you to give it more time than I was allowed to give it on this podcast. Not that I got someone breathing down my back, but we got time to get to, we got to have some time to get some other stuff.

Blah. Okay. So, the next one I want to talk about is the best jazz instrumental album as opposed to the vocal. and this one is co-led by an Open Studio Pro course content creator known as Ron Carter, known for many other things, obviously. And also we got Jack Dejanette on the track, and Gonzalo Rubacaba. And forgive me if I'm absolutely berturing that name. But these are all incredible artists. Gonzalo, one of the best pianists of this or any generation, really.

Jack DeJenette, incredible drummer, which you must already know. And they came out with this album called Skyline, so I hope you really enjoy it. And here's a nice track from that album. Gorgeous, really gorgeous. Please take time to check out that album. It's so incredible. And you really, you know, like I don't often hear Jack Dejanette play that particular hat, you know.

He's obviously an incredible drummer of many facets, so it's really cool to see him, kind of do something a little different than I'm used to hearing him do. So next, I want to talk about this best. instrumental contemporary album with Taylor Ixty. You know, this was an interesting one because, obviously, he is a massive player in the jazz industry, and this album is covered in amazing jazz instrumentalists, but he's in the contemporary album category. And I would say it's interesting for multiple reasons, but also there's a lot of vocal

tracks on here that are really incredible. So the fact that he won over other contemporary artists in the... instrumental category. That really says a lot. So this track is called Hutchionite. I believe it's a rock or some kind of thing, scientific. Sorry, I'm not a scientist. Also named after some scientist, I believe, I need to get my facts straight here. I don't really know enough about this title. But the track I know is banging. It's really cool. So I hope you enjoy this track, Hutchianite. volcanic incredible track and that's not the only one on there i mean there is such good renditions of uh like becca stevens is doing an amazing song but play with me um there's uh the first track

is incredible just lots of good stuff on that album so please check it out so the next thing i want to get to is best large ensemble grammy uh so the best large jazz ensemble album goes to none other than christian mcbride and the christian mcbride big band i mean He's coming in with such a genuine sound. The album's name is for Jimmy, Wes, and Oliver, and they're playing Night Train in this track, I'm going to tell you. As you know, Christian McBride is an open studio teacher, content creator. He's here all the time.

I mean, he's like family. So I would be remissed if I wouldn't to say it's kind of like we won a Grammy, too. Am I right? Anyway, I really hope you enjoy this track. It's called Night Train, and it's on the album for Jim. Jimmy West and Oliver, a Christian McBride big band. Incredible stuff. I mean, who other than Christian McBride can pull that off so genuinely, so swing, and sounds

so good, immediately got me dancing, man. It's such a good track. So moving quite on, this next one is for Best Latin Jazz Album. But this artist also won Best Instrumental Jazz Solo, and Bost is posthumously because he Chick-Karia died around this time last year, unfortunately, still winning Grammys. I believe this is the 27th Grammy Award that Chick-Korea has taken home, absolutely prolific in how much they write and create. And also, this is the 71st Grammy nomination, so you've got to know that Chick is just

an absolute legend and will always be missed. So I'm going to play the track from Miramir, Best Latin Jazz album, and this is Chick's track, Armando's Rumba. So I hope you enjoy. Really good stuff. Again, you've got to check out this album. I'm only giving you little snippets, and that's just not fair. So anyway, thank you for hanging out with me today

as we go through the Grammy Wenders of the Jazz Affiliated. Hopefully we'll get back to Adam and Peter being in the... Stu. I'm just Caleb Kirby here producing in the background, but I'm here on the mic today. And I want you guys to just remember that this whole thing is sponsored by Open Studio Network. And if you want to get closer with you and your instrument, you've got to go and check out the content that they're creating. Until next time, again, thanks for coming out and happy practicing. This last track that I'm going to play is a Grammy Award winner for Best Instrument. composition and it's by Lyle May so I really hope that you enjoy it again thank you for

hanging out with me and this is that track Eberhard from the album Eberhardt.