You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Our Quarantine Listening Mix

Episode Date: March 19, 2020

In rough times like these, there's nothing quite like music to help soothe the stressful soul. Today, Peter and Adam list their favorite tunes to put on during social isolation. Check them out on our Spotify playlist right here.In light of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, we understand that money is tight for a lot of people right now. That's why we've decided that for the duration of this crisis, we'll be running a Choose What You Pay campaign at Open Studio. Choose whichever course you want and then let us know how much you're willing to pay - that's it. For more info, click this link.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 Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey, Peter. Hey, Adam. Got a lot of time to listen to music lately. I know, man. This is a new world. It's a new day. Beautiful thing is, we've got the same music, always. I'm Adam Manus.

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A lot of gigs canceled. Everybody's gigs are canceled. Everybody's gigs around the world for at least the next month. We're feeling it. y'all are feeling it. So our mission at Open Studio is to help our global community of jazz students play jazz better. We've got the courses so we don't want money to get in the way. Whatever you want to pay is beautiful and upwards and onwards for all of us. That's open studio jazz.com slash y-H-I for that. That's right. Today, you know, we need some healing and music is great at that. That's right. I thought we just start the day off with a little bit of listening. What we're listening to right now while we have all this time.

We're going to start off with one of yours. This is the R.H Factor featuring DeAngelo. This is I'll stay. That just feels great. Well, you know, we're always talking about the healing power of music. And, you know, it's something that we believe deeply in here, deeply here at the You'll Hear a podcast. But, you know, in times like this, it's really true.

So it's been a pleasure to dive back into some of these tunes. And this is, these are all tracks today that you or I, or both of us have been listening to recently and then also to have a little bit of a tie-in with what's kind of happening in the world right now and with, you know, quarantine, coronavirus and all the global pandemic and health crisis. But this one I chose for two reasons.

The title I'll stay in the lyric and everything is really about what everybody's doing. Not a lot of traveling going on now. We're staying. But staying, but it's kind of chilling. But also Roy Hargrove, who I'm thinking about like every day anyway, we lost them, you know,

a little over a year ago. and miss him and love him, hard groove forever. And his music truly lives on. And we're so appreciative that we have these beautiful documents still to get us through these tough times. It's so true, man. Yeah, you know what I did the other day is I was at home and I was thinking about things that I wanted to accomplish. Of course, like practice stuff. We'll get to that tomorrow.

Yeah. But thinking about things I wanted to ingest and digest, right? So I made like a little list of maybe a Manus Family film festival that we can have on Netflix. Nice. You know, did some research of films that I haven't seen. A little virtual film festival. A little virtual film festival.

Films I probably should have seen by now, you know, that kind of thing that we now have time to watch. And then I made myself a list of music that I've been meaning to check out that I haven't really given time to. Yeah. And so I have three of those on here of my choice.

I made a whole list of 10 that I've really been digging, actually, of people that I have been in my peripheral that I've heard and I'm like, ooh, I really like that. But I haven't like super check them out. Everybody has these, right? Yeah.

So this next one is one that I'm just obsessed with right now after listening to several albums this week. This is Charles Lloyd, who I've always been a fan of, and for some reason I've just never like gone deep onto his music. But one of our friends, Ruben Rogers, is a part of his quartet. And Ruben plays his ass off on these tracks. Absolutely. The bands are just super, super killing.

This is from his album, Mirror from 2010. This is Jason Moran, Ruben, Robin. Rogers and Eric Harlan. Jason Marant piano, Ruben Rogers bass, Eric Holland drums, Charles Lloyd's playing tenor saxophone flute and singing on this record. But this is Go Down Moses from Mirror. Eric Harlan on these two. Oh yeah. Beautiful. You know he with the first few albums I listened to to of Charles Lloyd in full with my full attention this last couple weeks just caught my attention that he and I share like I I have his whatever harmonic it he implores in all of his music since the 60s is like something that it just resonates so

strongly with me and the fact that he's you know in there with the blues too and things are still very loose man I just that just I'm such a sucker for all of it oh no he's I mean and the bands are just incredible so I remember the first record I heard of charles boy was forest flower forest flower and I think for a lot of folks especially pianists you know because that's one of the few recordings that Keith Jarrett played on as a side man. It's a brilliant record from live at the Monterey Jazz Festival. But then getting a chance to hear him live with this quartet a number of times over the last 10. I mean, actually, yeah, they've been playing together for at least 10 years.

I want to say more like 15 years. This was 2010, this record. Right. This was their second. Yeah. Great group. And I mean, he's such a, you know, he chained. I mean, you can hear that cold train influence, of course, which, you know, he's a little.

younger than train so he must have really come up like all those saxophone players that came up during that time i mean to this day but especially during that time charles lloyd's time really uh idolizing and being influenced of course as we all were but by coltrane but to me charles lloyd sort of uh channels and typifies that influence in a way that is just deep deep deep deep i mean he plays things that other saxophone players play that it's like oh you're just aping coltrane but he really taps You heard it right there. Yeah. He taps into that spirit of John Coltrane in a way that you better be sure you're tapping in before you try that.

He's got his, he certainly has his own identity. Oh, for sure. With that palette. Oh, for sure. It's just so. I think that's how he's able to do it. That's how he's able. It's not an ape.

It's just a, it's, it's purely him just from that same school. Yeah. You know, and that's what's so brilliant about it. It's amazing to hear and play with those younger musicians too. Yeah. And actually, there's some great YouTube videos of his quartet with Keith Jarrett. They played all over Europe when Keith was in the band. And so there are all these television appearances that they made.

And I'll send you some. Why do I have to come to this podcast to learn that from? You can tell me these kind of things, man. And like Keith is playing the craziest stuff. And it's like 1970 or what I mean? It's insane. It's great. So check out.

What are you saying in 1970? Can't be something hip? I was born in 1970, my friend. No, he's just super young. He's just super young. Hey, I was super young. You were not playing like that yet. Not yet.

Not yet. Okay. So speaking to Keith Jarrett, the next thing we have on here. Keith Jared. Ever heard of them? Yeah. This is one of the greatest trios of all time. This is one of the greatest albums of all time standards volume two. And this is never let me go. This is your pick. Bam. Yeah. I mean, what else do you want to just stop the podcast? You'll hear it. Yeah. I'll play it again. Yeah. So I mean, it's just so gorgeous. Yeah, this trio recorded, you know, live and some studio stuff, a lot of wonderful standards. Never let me go is a little bit less

know, but part of the reason I put it on here, it's one of my favorite ballads that they play, and the lyric on it's amazing, but it's very, you know, this kind of, this pandemic time, a lot of families like mine, everybody's back in my house, my kids are back, everything, everyone's kind of turning inwards in a way that has, you know, a lot of, I don't know, it's, it's a lot of like coming back to the basics, you know, we're not running all over a place. There's things still going on and look there's a lot of tumultuous, horrible things happening

in the world, a lot of pain and suffering but there's really a time to not let go of your loved ones hopefully never to let go and kind of the bitter sweet and the sweet altogether. I think his sound, I mean Keith always can capture that but in this beautiful song. Sorry I get a little see deep. No man, this whole this whole

I'm saying. This whole mix is a bit reflective as I think most of us. Let's give a little six foot hug. Let's hug it out from back here. No, I think you know, I think this reflects exactly what I think a lot of people are feeling right now, which is just, it's a time where there's not, there's not a lot to do. We're all kind of forced to unplug a little bit and force to reflect on society in general and our family and the importance, the things that are important to us, what's really important to us. And so it's obviously reflected in our

choices today. And you know, it's interesting, like as we listen to this music, you know, a lot of people, well, I mean, hopefully not a lot of people, but a fair number of people have been through major crises like this before. I know for me, just kind of one time of my life went through Hurricane Katrina with my family, like a really big upheaval. And, you know, luckily most people never go through those. But once you go through it, you're changed forever.

But this one is a little different because virtually, as far as I know, and look, this is changing day by day and by the time folks hear this, things will have changed. But this is affecting just about everybody in the world. So, you know, having gone through a major, you know, natural disaster that affects a lot of people, but it's just a teeny population of the world. Yeah.

Whereas this is a global situation, it's really unprecedented. Yeah, and there's very few times where it's like, like you said, like there's seven billion people affected by this. Yeah. We're all on the same side on this time. That's right. That's right. That's the side. You know what I'm saying?

If you don't love Keith Jarrett, you can just unscribe to this podcast. That's right. So my next choice is a record that I'd heard about. A friend had recommended me back when it came out in 2014 called Lay That's a podcast. called Laith of Heaven from the Mark Turner Quartet. And I finally got around to check it out, and I love it. This is Abashai Cohen on trumpet, Joe Martin on bass player.

He plays trumpet too? Obeshae Cohen, the trumpet player on trumpet. You know, Annatsboro. Oh, yeah. Joe Martin on bass, Marcus Gilmore and drums, and of course Mark Turner on Tanner Saxon is a gorgeous record, pianoless as it is, which I'm usually not a fan of. Hey now.

Hey now. But this is Lave of Heaven. from Laidavette. Lave of Heaven. Lath of Heaven from the Mark Turner Quartet. Beautiful.

It's like they brought a workshop and put out a lathe right in heaven and created that music. They've sculpted that music. Look at that. You know what I'm saying? All right.

Next. Is it not Lathorne of Heaven? Lath of Heaven? You always got it. It probably is law. I don't know. I don't know anything that's not in high age.

Big shout out to Mark Turner. I'm looking down our list here at the next, at the next one and I see a classic. This is a class. So this one was kind of, we've been This is one of those party songs that comes on in the Martins household quite a bit.

Wait, when you say Martins, why do you? M-A-R-T-I-N-Z. When most of us, if we have a plurality of Martins in our house, you know, the grandparents been a little scared to come around, I'm not going to lie. Yeah. We've been going through. As they should be. As they should be.

But as long as we got at least three to four Martins in the house, we become the Martins. That's so great. And this is one where some of the adults have been known to, you know, partake in the the Jesus juice, as we say. Yeah, yeah. And party on this one. But this also really has a deeper meaning. This is about, you know, continuity in the world

and everybody helping each other out coming together and going on and on. That is a timeless track. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. It really, it really is. It holds up. Yep.

It's probably, what, 25 years old now? I do. Feels like it just came out yesterday. But yeah, could be. It's so. bumpin. And her voice is her delivery, her voice, everything, the song,

it's all good, man. Yep. That's what we're doing. We're going on and on. I feel like I'm high enough now that we can go on to our next one. Smokey up in there. This is a band I discovered. I was just hanging out last night in my bed on YouTube and I was watching Tiny Desk concerts. You ever go down to Tiny Desk?

Dude, we have a Tiny Desk Roku channel installed somehow on our Roku play. No way. There's a Roku channel for time. There absolutely is. It's awesome, man. So I came across this band called Melatron variations. Now, if you're a keys player, you probably know what a melaton is. If you don't, a melitron is this

keyboard instrument from the 60s and 70s that each key is its own tape, like a tape, like a tape in a cassette or a reel-to-reel tape. Like a magnetic tape. Like a magnetic tape. So it gets this really smoky sound on whatever

instrument you have programmed in. That last track got me a smoky sound if you know what I'm saying. So there's a band called Meletron Variations and it's Pat Sansoni who is of Wilcoe Jonathan, Kirksey,

Robbie Grant and then John Medeschi of Medeschi Martin and Wood fame and they have a really entertaining tiny desk where they have one real Melatron and then four modern digital versions that they make in Scandinavia somewhere.

But it's... Nerd alert! Yeah, exactly. No, I just am a sucker for the... Melotron, nerd alert! I'm a sucker for the smoky, smoky sounds of the Melotron, and I've been bumping this album all day. Let's do it. If you all could only see the dance that Peter Martin is doing right now, he's mimicking

a flute. I think he might be on LSD. I'm not sure. Have you ever seen Terry Cruz play the flute and jazz flute? No. Man, that's what I was trying to do. Terry Cruz. Big shout out to Terry Cruz.

flautist extraordinaire. I would love to hear Keith Jared on one of these meletrons. That would be very entertaining. He would never, ever do it. I want to hear Keith Jared on Melotron accompanied or accompanying Terry Cruz on jazz flute. Come on, dude. That would kill it. So if you want to hear all of these songs on our quarantine listening mix.

Is that appropriate? Are we cool calling at that? We don't want to offend anybody. I mean, we already did. Oh, we did. Okay. We're going to have to. Check out the description.

There's a link to a Spotify playlist that you can. And check these out for yourself. And we're going to go out with, okay, so this one, this is great because I was already listening to this a bunch and I came back and been listening to a bunch. I can't stop listening to this. I love Hurling Riley. I'm going to put it out there right now. This is from his new record and it's just amazing. And I love the title of this.

I don't know if we can make it. Oh, no, we've got to make it to the, to the, well, you know what? Can we play the beginning, the melody and then jump to the drum solo? It's our podcast. We'll do whatever we want. But the great thing about this, and this is wonderful for us to think about what we're all going through in the world now, the name of this track is border without lines. Okay, so that's really where we're at in the world. And Hurley is going to bring us together.

Okay, we love you guys. You'll hear it.