You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Spouses Special: Favorite Artists

Episode Date: April 24, 2019

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Hey, Heather. Hey, Kelly. Why are we here? I have no idea. Me either. I'm Heather Maness. I'm Kelly Martin. And you're listening to The You'll Hear at Podcast. Daily Jazz Advice brought to you by OPA Studio. Make sure you take a minute to visit Oxfordamerican.org.

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Actually not. We're just going to talk about what we as jazz wives listen to, our maybe seven favorite artists? Yeah, I guess we can compile a list of sorts to see where we end up with. I don't know if we'll end up with a full seven, but let's hit it. I wonder if we're going to have any jazz in this. That's a good question. I know the answer for me, but I don't know the answer for you.

Okay. All right. Where you want to go first? I will go first. I would say when Adam mentioned to me that I would be talking about my favorite musical things that I listened to, I thought, yes, I do know what music is. So that's a good start. I know the one thing that I love that I have always loved since I found it and I continue to love to this day is Led Zeppelin.

It's hands down, bar none of my favorite musical act. Sorry, Bibb. What's not to like? We love Led Zeppelin. What's not to like, exactly. So for me, there's not a genre of music that I don't like. And like I kind of have like a little cheat advantage that my parents, only listened to jazz when I was a kid.

Oh, man. So I know a lot about jazz. I know a lot about jazz musicians, I guess. Well, you do too. You married to one. Well, I mean, I know what a jazz musician looks like. So, so, that's a, you know, that's a big step in the right direction. I would say I'm not going to start in jazz, but I do have a jazz artist that I love.

But I'm going to start with like something like contemporary. Okay. Hit me. And I like Adele. Oh, that's a good one. And it's my daughter when she was in like, I don't know, sixth grade who's in college now, she comes home like, mom, you have got to hear this music. And I'm like, wow, this woman has like an amazing voice. That is a good one.

I like it. Do you listen to music regularly? Are you like a music listener around the house or? I am. I listen to music a lot. Well, in the car a lot. And then I think because I have musical children, they're always listening to music, and particularly my son, my daughter's away in college, but my son, like, there's no music

that he doesn't like. And like right now, he's a violinist and he's working on this Mendelsohn piano trio with two of his friends, and they're actually playing in a concert tomorrow. So I'm hearing a lot of Mendelsohn in the house right now, and it's quite enjoyable. So yeah, so yeah, music lover, music listener. So your whole life, even before you had children, you were always listening to music. It was a big part of what you were doing. Has always been.

And it's funny. Like, I think what attracted Peter to me is he had heard through the great vibe when we were in high school that I had like all these LPs of like vintage jazz. And he'd known other friends had been and saw this record collection. He couldn't wait. So I think that's why he wanted to date. He asked you how to get to. your record collection. Exactly it. Sucker, you got him, didn't you?

Oh, yeah. Just, you know, turn over that kind of blue and it's like in its original jacket. Now, your parents were listening to this. Were you listening to this too? Well, it was playing in the house. And as I got older, when I got to college, like Peter likes to say, I only listened to Kenny G. and Najee, that was my idea of jazz. But I actually, like, my dad loved cannibal, elderly. And so I love. I love. Canterball. My mom loved Nancy Wilson, so I love Nancy Wilson. And so when I got to college, I was listening to that as well as the Kennedy G.

Because, you know, it's the 80s. You got to listen to some Kennedy G. There you go. So, Heather, what's another artist that really is meaningful to you and that you enjoy listening to? I was thinking about this. In my life, there has been music I have listened to, and then I don't listen to anymore. but will always be in my heart a little bit because it reminds me of a time and place, right? Okay.

So I tried to think about this more as what am I listening to now? What do I actively listen to? Okay. And when I am, which I'll be honest, I don't normally listen to music. Music is not a big part of my life. Not really. I don't really. Sometimes I will, but I usually, I mean, this is my drugs as TV.

I always have the TV on in the background. Yeah. How does that work with him playing all these instruments? And I'm assuming he's playing a lot in the house. Well, not as much anymore that he's got some studio space. Okay, okay. And now my daughter is playing the piano a lot. So now I listen to her play, or try to play, I guess, because she's just getting there.

She's new to it. But sometimes doing dishes or I'm cooking and I just want to listen to some music. And something I will repeatedly go to is Fleetwood Mac. I don't know if that's good or bad. That's great. And you know what's interesting about us talking about what we listen to? I feel like because our husbands, they're jazz musicians, but jazz is like a background for almost everything, all music.

There's some kind of jazz influence, at least according to me who's not a musician. But I really do think so. So, likefully, Matt, it's, I mean, I think that's perfect. I'll take your word for it because I think our husbands would agree. I mean, you can't go wrong there. I think, like, another artist that, like, just brings me joy whenever I hear anything by him. And that's Stevie Wonder. Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah. I mean, it's just like, I don't actually, I don't think I've ever met anyone who said, I just don't like Stevie Wonder. Well, I would be very suspect of that person if they said that. And they're not a music listener if they are wrong with them in general. They don't even appreciate music if they're like, no Stevie Wonder. Yeah. So that's a good one for me. I guess I'm trying to think of why or when Stevie became.

I don't remember there ever not being Stevie Wonder. Yeah, that's like Stevie Wonder and the Beatles, stuff like that. It just never was not there. Exactly. That's exactly it. All right, so we said seven. So you got another one? Well, another big one that I listen to a lot,

and I especially listen to with my son because he enjoys these as much as I do, my daughter not as much, is any soundtrack. from a Broadway musical. Like, I guess not any. There are something that I don't care for. But like my biggies are, has always been Le Maiz, like always has been my favorite. And then I saw Hamilton last spring. And now I just don't know. It's a real toss up for me between Hamilton and Les Mis. I don't know what I like more. I'm really, it's sort of a crisis of conscience. Maybe I don't know. I don't know what to do. It's just really good. There's, they're different. So, you know, can kind of go with your mood when you're feeling like, you know what? I just, I got to get, I got to get

moving got to get that stuff done you put the Hamilton on and then you can get to moving the shoulders and my son is a Hamilton guy all the way like he really doesn't have much for Lay Miss but he does really like Joseph and the Technicolor Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoe yeah which is a really good one and he

and I have both really gotten into the greatest showman which I don't think is actually on Broadway I don't know it might be but it's a movie musical and so yeah and we've really gotten into that a lot so love that because he's a little guy and he loves it oh that's so cool Thanks.

I have no idea what number we're on. I don't know either. I can throw someone else out that I love. Oh, I said I would add some jazz, and that would be Miles Davis. And I think the first time as an adult when I heard Kind of Blue, I was like, I don't have to hear anything else. Like, that is just everything. And even now when, because I teach yoga and when I'm teaching, some days it's like a rainy day and it's a little chilly outside. And I usually listen to more world music or play more world music in my classes.

But sometimes when the mood is right, you just put on the kind of flute and the kind of stretching that you get. Oh, my gosh. It's just amazing. That's really interesting. I never would think that. Yeah. You can just. And it's one of those records that when I put on, even for students who've never heard it before, they all respond to it.

Huh. So I think it's one of... Some kind of visceral reaction, I guess. Yeah. And I think it's one of the best-selling jazz records, so that might explain. Yeah. I may have something to do with it. Well, I'm hoping that the...

You'll Hear It Listeners have enjoyed us today. We can come back again and we can talk about something else. I'll talk about anything. Please ask my opinion on something. I'll give it to you. Well, I got nothing else. You got anything else? I got nothing, Kelly.

All right. It's been fun. It's been. a lot of fun. Let's do it again, but maybe we'll just hang out and go have some coffee or something. That's probably a little bit more enjoyable. All right. I guess thanks to the Open Studio listener. Yeah, and to the Oxford American. All right. Oh, you know what, Kelly, we forgot to say something. You'll hear it.