You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - If You Could Play Just One Tune, What Would It Be? - #86

Episode Date: April 25, 2018

Today, Peter and Adam debate their "desert island" tune. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast. Daily Jazz advice coming at you. Today we're going to ask a burning user question. What do you got? If you could play just one tune, what would it be? Why would anybody ask this question?

Well, is this kind of like you're stuck on a desert island and you can only play one song? You can only bring one tune? You could only bring one tune? I might quit music, man. Well, hey, we don't make the questions, but we answer them here at you'll hear. hear it. No, that's cool. It's cool. So I'm going to go with OneNote Samba. Are you by Jobi. So you want to go insane then. Oh, wait. This is one two, not one note. Okay. No, so I'm not going to go with that. I think, you know, I think I'd probably go with,

can we name a couple and then pick at the end? Let's do that. That'll be more. We're going to narrow it down because I don't want to be, because I was going to say all the things you are. Yeah. But I don't think that's going to be my final answer. Remember the show when it was like, is that your final answer? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, I mean, I think it's a fun tune to play, and I think you can develop a lot as you play on it. Okay. It's not necessarily my favorite song, but I do enjoy playing it. Got a lot of history with it, a lot of good memories with it, I guess. This is not sounding like a, like a real interest in my, but I mean, you're not passionate about it already, and you're not even on the island yet, dude. I know. Well, you know what? My non-final answer, all the things you're

I'm hoping you're going to say something that's going to remind me. If I may, I would like to not choose a tune but a form, the blues. If I only had one tune to play, I would... Let me read our user's question again. If you could play just one phone... I know what the question says. Okay, so this is not your final answer because it's not even an accurate answer. But I mean, we're not playing the tune, the head of the tune, over and over and over.

So maybe take the cold train, which is an F blues, you know. Because, you know, it's a blues. You got... That's true. You got all that stuff to work with. I guess that's what I was thinking about with all the things you are. I like the form and the changes. I'm thinking about improvising over it a lot,

which would be interesting, right? Yeah. Now let's get to the important parts, tunes that we would not choose. Oh, tunes that we would not want to do? Yeah. If there's one tune, you could, if you could not, yeah, ones that you wouldn't bring on the island. Rhythm changes.

I mean, I know it's like, it's whatever, but I just, if I could never play the rhythm journey. really more about forms than tunes. There's a disconnect here with how this works. Yeah, I know. I'm not really... Sorry, Eli. If you could play just one form, what would it be? That's tomorrow's episode. Ballads. No, so if, man, if I couldn't... Balsanova. No, you know what? If there was one tune that I...

If the question is, is there one tune that you wish you never had to play again, it would be there is no greater love. Yeah, that's stale. Yeah, I mean, if I went my whole life without ever having... to play that at a jam session or having someone call it on a gig, a pickup gig ever again. And it's not a bad tune. I mean, I almost feel bad agreeing. Is it not a bad

tune? Okay. Well, I was thinking like, you know, what is this thing called love? Oh. That's another one. If I never played that again, I would be fine with it. See, I actually like that one. Well, I mean, I like, no, I don't like it. I think certain, satin doll. Oh, yeah. You know, love Duke Allington, hate satin'all. But I don't

hate satin. It's just, it's been played in a way and presented in a way that I prefer to leave it off the island, I guess I should say. Yeah, there's an association with it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, for a period for me, even So What was like that. Like, I got to get back to some of those classic recordings to really enjoy it again, you know? Oh, yeah.

I'm not, I'm so not stale and so what, but I am a little over Mr. PC. I mean, not when Coltrane plays it, but if I have to play it. The thing is, is if you have to play Mr. PC, oh, Blue Vasa. But again, Joe Henderson's original recording of Blue Boss is amazing. I think this is all like They get played these jam session tunes What we're seeing is on the desert island We don't need to bring the tunes

We need to bring the recording Of these tunes Not the tunes Yeah So I get you know what I'm gonna amend my I'll let you take the blues Because you love the blues

I didn't choose the blues I don't want the blues Well that's a form It's not a tune I'll take I'll take giant steps To play Ah a little challenge on the island Only because it's going to take

My whole life To actually be able to play it The way I want to be able to play it Okay. Well, you know what? I'll take giant steps too then. Are you kidding me? We're going to be on separate islands, dude. Don't worry, man. Some, like, Norwegian shipping company is going to be like, why is there giant steps coming from two different islands here in the ocean?

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