You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Jazz Resources

Episode Date: April 18, 2019

Today, Peter and Adam answer a question sent via Facebook on other useful resources musicians can use to enhance their jazz knowledge.Jazz Resources:JazzTimesDo the Mathjazz.org (also, shoutout to https://www.smallslive.com)Playing ChangesAdam NeelyYou'll Hear It (the blog)Peter and Adam's Ultimate Tip: 2 Minute JazzThe ending theme song for today's episode is "A Little Ditty" by David Cousins. To get your music featured on You'll Hear It, send an MP3 recording of your music to [e-mail]'s episode is sponsored by the Oxford American. The Oxford American is a magazine dedicated to documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Its award-winning annual music issue comes with a CD sampler and digital download - a must-have for any serious music fan. Recent issues have featured Nina Simone, Thelonious Monk, John Cage, and John Cage. Visit https://www.oxfordamerican.org/yhi today for a special subscription discount!Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel and leave a comment for this episode.Interested in more jazz advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram at:https://www.facebook.com/heyopenstudiohttps://twitter.com/heyopenstudiohttps://www.instagram.com/heyopenstudio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey Adam. What's up? Have you seen an encyclopedia? Yes. Britannica. Yeah. Did your parents get you one at the grocery store? No.

Oh, that's what they used to sell them. It was. Really? Yeah. I'm Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear Podcast. Daily Jazz Advice in under 15 minutes coming at you.

We gotta do this. Today's episode is, oh, why are we under 15 minutes? Well, because we're almost out of time on our cards here for the memory cards. Okay. A little behind the same thing. scenes and we've just wasted about 30 seconds talking about it. Today's episode is brought brought to you by the Oxford American. Go to Oxford American.orgie slash YHI for an amazing deal, $25 for a yearly subscription. What are you doing with your hands? That's it. We can't give

the full plug today. We don't have time for it. What are we getting into today? Today we're, I don't know. You've got the question. I think it's about resources. That's why I was talking about the insight. Yeah, we got a question from Facebook. And this is from Mark, one of our listeners, Mark, and he asks about jazz resources. Yeah. How about a podcast on favorite blogs, websites, et cetera, for keeping up with jazz news, records, resources? Great question, Mark.

Yes. So we have a list here, and the first seven by any chance? You know what? We actually didn't even count. What? I know. Man, we are off our game today. Let's get back on it.

Okay. So I think one of the better resources, it's a magazine, but it's a good website, too, is jazz times. It's been around for a while. Yeah. They always seem to be keeping up with not to, just, you know, some of the older recordings and reissues and stuff like that. But, you know, the festival circuit and newer artists. Yeah. And I dig jazz times. I like jazz times. Yeah.

And you know what? I like, I kind of been coming back around on Downbeat lately. I just, I hadn't seen in a while. They just had their big festival. Oh, you're sighing. Yeah, it's all right. I like, I like Downbeat. It's fine. But their festival issue is kind of nice. Yeah. Do you remember Jazz Is? Is that still around? Jazz Is was trending smooth, wasn't it? Was it trending smooth? It was trending smooth? For a while. It was kind of cool. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

So, but check out Jazz Times. It's jazz times. It's jazz times.com. Yep. That's kind of where I go for some reviews and some pretty good articles, I guess. Yeah. You don't,

that's number one, though. Okay. All right. It's all good. Can I be honest about this, though? Yes, please. There's actually kind of a lack of really amazing coverage in jazz. Like, there's a few people who are doing awesome things.

Yeah. But you know what it is? I think that there's the, it's just the journalism infrastructure in general. Like, It's not enough money? Well, yeah, there's not enough money, but it's more like the reviewers, you know, that infrastructure,

which traditionally is what kind of was the structure of like downbeat and jazz is and stuff. Like those local reviewers, but the ones in New York and L.A. and Chicago would provide articles and kind of like this concert happened or this thing at the club or whatever.

And a lot of newspapers and stuff don't have review. Like we don't have a jazz reviewer. We have some music. Music reviewers still in St. Louis, like with the newspaper, but they cover like every, it's paired all the way down. Remember, they used to be. Yeah. Someone that just did jazz. Yeah, yeah.

And same with classical and whatever. And so, I mean, I guess we can't complain because a few journalists that are there, you know, you want them looking after the big picture, big ticket items. Murder, Mayhem and all that kind of thing. It's just, it's just a shame that it's not as deeply covered, I think, as it should be. But from multiple angles. Yeah, yeah. But this takes us to our number two, which is. Which is?

which is do the math, which is the blog of Ethan Iverson. So I think that what we do, a little bit of the holes being filled by some thoughtful musicians, typified, I think, most brilliantly, currently by Ethan Iverson. Ethan Iverson is... He's kind of becoming one of my favorite jazz writers, which is annoying because he's one of my favorite jazz pianists as well. You know what I mean?

So, like, he's a great writer. And his point of view on these things, while I don't always agree with is always thought-provoking, is always very interesting and is always a joy to read. go to, it used to be do the math.org, but now it's all just on Ethan Iverson. I don't think it was just to math. It was always do the math, my friend. I don't know what you're thinking about. Well, now's just Ethan Iverson.com

and you can see all of his essays. The interviews, man, I've been digging deep on the interviews. You got in the Keith Jared interview? Oh, Keith Jared interview is so good. First of all, it's like the best ever because it's the only one ever. It's the only one in a long time. No, but it's like you finally, it's an interview with Keith where I think Ethan really holds his own intellectually with Keith about

about Keith, which. which I think has never happened, even with good interviews. Like Keith has done a couple, I think, with like Terry Gross, who's obviously one of the better interviewers in the world. But I don't think she has the jazz knowledge to really take him to some of these places that Ethan took him to. So also the one with Jason Moran was very insightful for me. Pianist, I've been following, following for, you know, my whole adult life and learned some new things in that interview. So check out, doethoniberson.com.

Do the math is the name of the blog. And then, of course, there was the, what I thought was a very good interview as well. I was actually at part of the interview, but it became very controversial with Robert Glasper. Oh, that was, yeah, yeah. If you want a little bit of controversy. Did you, you poked your head in, right? I had, I came in the room because I left my jacket there in that particular room. Yeah, yeah.

I didn't know until later how it was going on. So cool. All right. So number three, we have. I think we do have seven, by the way. Oh, perfect. Yeah. So number three, we have jazz.org.

Ever heard of it? Yeah, I see you skip over. one though. That's okay. We'll come back to it. Jazz.js.org. Yes, this is the arm of the law, also known as Jazz and Lincoln Center. The Jazz Police. It's so funny to me that they actually bought Jazz.org. Yeah. But actually, I think this is a really good resource. Obviously, for what's happening in New York at their venues. It's wonderful. It's a very well-done website. And I think one of the best things about it, they've got some really good recorded videos, some instructional things, but they're live streaming through jazz.org, which is the Jazz and Lincoln Center.

venues, Disney's Club, the Allen room, Appel Room, the Rose Room. They do incredible streaming of great shows almost every night, several times a week usually. It's awesome. It's really good. Yeah, also shout out to Smalls for doing the same thing. Smalls does it as well. That's a much smaller organization, but they stream at Smalls and at Meadow every night. Every night.

And it's like, it looks like security camera, but it's like really good quality music and sound and stuff. It's good. So number four, I'm going to give a shout out here. This is a book that I've been reading for like three months because it takes so long to get through playing changes from Nate Shinen. I think it's Shinen. Or Shinen or Shinen? I don't know.

Anyway, but playing changes in the name. It's a book and it's unbelievably brilliant. It's jazz for the new century. It's all about basically the brief history of jazz in the 21st century. Yes. It kind of starts out actually with Winton and Lincoln Center. With the Young Lines. And kind of launches out of there.

But the reason why it's taken me so long to get through is because I'm constantly stopping to listen to music. There's so much holes to fill in my, even though I'm of the perfect age for this because I grew up during these eras, you know. As you grow up, you develop your favorites, and I definitely had huge holes in people that I know about, I've heard and I've even seen live,

but maybe I haven't, I've slept on a record or I've slept on an artist that I should, you know, that now I'm like, oh man, this is killing. I slept on a record last night. My neck is killing me. week go. Anyway, check out, but so it's not a, the book is not a blog, but there isn't

a killing, accompanying website that has like a list of essential albums and a bunch of cool stuff. I love that when books do that now when they've got the either app or website kind of, it's sort of to promote the book, but it's nice when they do have the kind of value added stuff like that. So check out

playing changes book.com. Nice. All right, so number five, we've got a YouTuber. Yes, jazz has our own YouTuber. Yay! I'm so excited. Oh, no, this guy's good, though. Adam Neely. Is he? Yeah, he is good. He is good. He puts together great videos. It's just that some of his things, like what was the how developing a groove by standing on one leg?

I mean, he takes, I mean, we get into some clickbait. I'm not going to lie, but we try to make ours useful clickbait. He gets into just straight. He played the lick. Da-a-do-bed-de-b-b-b-b-b for seven hours straight or something. I respect that, though. I don't, I mean, the fortitude to do. First of all, do you know what you're training yourself to play? Oh, man. Come on, man. But, no, he's a funny guy.

And he's a really good filmmaker. And we're not jealous at all that he has 10x, the number of subscribers. Oh, I see what's happening now. I see what's happening now. Jealousy does not wear nicely on me, Peter. No, but you know what? The videos are quality. I usually completely agree with what, you know, musically what he has to say.

Check it out. I don't know, though. Well, yeah, his. I think I saw him. Maybe it wasn't him, though. remember when he was like a couple people they were analyzing was it Giant Steps and somebody was throwing shade

on the piano solos by Tommy Flanagan? That's a whole thing now right? There's whole there's whole meme pages based around Tommy Flanagan solo on Giant Steps It's true. Well that's not cool. But that's the thing is the more you say it's not cool

the more memes they make this is how certain people get elected man That's right He has a TEDx, too. Did you know that? Adam Neely. He was it TEDx? Yeah.

He did a TEDx. Oh, how does he have a TEDx and I don't? Oh, actually, I did do a TEDx. But it's not on video. Okay. Curb the Tude, man. Sorry. Gives the guy his props.

He did a video on Negative Harmony. I don't even know what that is. Oh, sorry. I'm not bitter. Okay. Let's move on. Please. Number six.

Oh. Come on. We only got like two minutes left. You'll hear it.com. Oh, you'll hear it.com. What is that? Oh, that's our. own blog.

Not our little blog. So we're proud of our little blog. We humbly accept that it's a good resource for people. We spun it off. It started it. It's humbled beginnings. We're at open studio network. com where it was the house blog.

But yeah, we spun it off with just the great, not episodes. What would you call those blog posts? Yeah. And then add it all of them in anyway, just for fun. And,

no, but we've got some, you've got some great blog posts over there. No, no, no, you're right. No, no. But you have,

I mean, the Barry Harris one. the, oh, go on. Some great voicing's ones. Oh, please, go on. We have some fun stuff over there. So I think it's a good resource

and we've got some stuff like for beginners, very beginner piano chords. Some clickbait stuff is what you're saying. We got a little bit clickbait. So yeah. So that's it actually because the last one is our ultimate.

Number seven we're going to save for the very end of the show the ultimate tip. Yeah. I'm liking the ultimate tips, man. I was very skeptical at first. I'm like, why are we adding one more layer of complexity to this?

But now I get it. The funny thing There's the people that are really like time optimizers. They just, they don't listen to all this. They're like, we don't need all the filler. Take me to the one thing I need to. Oh, yeah, no, on YouTube, they're already doing time stamps on all this. Are they really?

Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. Today's episode was sponsored by the Oxford American. Go to Oxfordamerican. Go to Oxfordamerican.org slash YHI for some great deals. How much time we got, Andrew? We don't have a lot of time. But also go to...

Oh, five minutes. Go to, you'll hear it. We got extra time. Why'd you say that on the mic, man? Now we've got to fill that time. Oh, banter. Winnie Banter. Did you read that

Last article? Well, I do want to talk about Playing Changes again real quick because I want to read that book and remember you were supposed to lend it to me so could you move along? I'm almost finished.

I just got through with like the Sulkwerians chapter. Oh, nice. Yeah, no, it's awesome. Yeah, okay. Well, I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. Okay, so we're ready for the,

oh, we're just going to say, please give us a rating of review. Our egos are a little bit diminished because, well, no, I was going to say we haven't been getting, we have been getting, so. And they've been good. It's 5.0, baby.

So we were 4.99 for a while on iTunes, but we got enough reviews. Thank you guys. That we got pushed back up to an average of 5.0. Man, he likes talking about reviews, doesn't he? I do, man. That's the problem. Like we talked about before, we don't have enough jazz reviewers anymore. So all of you can be jazz reviewers, seven stars.

Also go to you'll hear.com to leave us a speak pipe. We're trying to get five good speak pipes for next week so we can do all speak pipe week. That's really just laziness on our part. We could stretch about. We'll see. Okay, now we're going to give you our ultimate tip for a resource in the jazz world. And that would be two minute jazz. Oh, that's just, come on, man.

Well, for folks that are time star, we're proud of our little product here. This is going back, I want to say like eight, seven, eight years. And we'll do an episode time sometimes the genesis of two minutes. Maybe we'll do that tomorrow. You think we'll have time? Yeah, we can do the whole genesis of Open Studio tomorrow. Okay. Yeah, we'll tell you how it started.

But basically, these are all videos that used to just be me doing them, then I pulled in Adam and some other people you might know like Christian McBride. Ever heard of him? I ever heard of him. Warren Wolf, Sean Jones. And they're approximately two minutes. Sometimes they're three minutes,

occasionally even four minutes, but they're just one little nugget of information. One thing for you to practice on. We don't go overboard with like, okay, now do it again or whatever. One idea, one concept. You can kind of pick and choose. And hopefully a lot of folks

said they've been helpful. So that's something you can go to YouTube. They're free. They're all free. And until tomorrow. Yeah. Well, until tomorrow you'll hear it. But we do have a listener tune on the way out.

This is called A Little Diddy by David Cousins. If you have a tune you want to hear on the end of a podcast, just send that MP3 to Andrew at openstudionetwork.com. That's Andrew at openstudio network.com. Lovely producer, Andrew, we'll put it at the end of the podcast. Again, this is Little Ditty from David Cousins. And until tomorrow, you'll hear it.