You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - The Jazziest Musician Names

Episode Date: August 22, 2019

Today, Peter and Adam (and Andrew!) list off some of their favorite jazz musician names.Like those You'll Hear It shirts Peter shows off on the podcast? Want some YHI swag of your own? Take a visit to our store! Just go to https://teespring.com/stores/open-studioLet 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. Yeah. You ready to get jazzy? Super ready to get jazzy. Well, that's what we doing. I'm Adam Annis. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear Podcast.

Daily jazz advice and a little bit of fun coming at you. I know. We kind of came up with this topic off the cuff. Off the cuff. Yeah. Off the cuff. These are our favorite jazz musician names. We were talking about how great.

Well, we wanted to do a little more controversial one, which we may end up doing. We were talking about... We'd get more confident. We've been playing this game about the dustiest New York jazz musicians. It's a little mean spirit. We're not going to say any names. But it is a fun game to think of some of the dustier names on the New York jazz. I'm talking about people who had piano trio records in the early 80s.

You know what I mean? Their sound is equivalent that of an NPR mug that you would get at a Pledge Drive. That's what they sound like. But the thing about it is, I had never, I feel so out of it. Because I'd never heard when you brought up this joke, Dusty. I mean, of course, I knew Dusty as. Get with it, man. But as soon as you said it, I knew, you totally got it.

It says it all. It says it all. You're like the dustiest New York jazzers. Well, so then we were talking about our favorite, like, jazzy names, like names that just seems so like a jazz musician's name. Right. You know, even though all these people are really, really great jazz musicians, their names just are so jazzy. And it helps, it helps with the entire presentation to have a jazz name.

You know what? I often think, you know, my dad's name is Lester, Lester Manus. and he's actually Lester Manus Jr. Wow. And there was an outside possibility that I would be Lester Manus III. And, you know, had... Maybe you could have been my divorce attorney.

Lester Manus III? Yeah. That would have been a great jazz pianist name. Are you kidding me? Right. Like, you know, a blue note record, Lester Manus the third? Come on, that'd be perfect.

Adam Manus is good as well. It's fine, but it's not as good as Lester Manus. Well, you know what I'm realizing, this is a little bit... Obviously, a little bit tongue-in-cheek, but this is a little bit inspired, but I'm realizing by Key and Peel. Are you familiar with the East West,

I am familiar with East Westville. And there's a certain name, Hingle McRingleberry, which kind of comes to mind. Now, those are all fictional names, but we're going with actual nonfiction names. Oh my gosh, we should take it next level for the next episode

and write seven of our favorite fictional jazz musician names. That's a good, yeah, that's a good word. All right, let's start out. Well, first of all, the first one I wanted to put, you had a great thing. I said, Louis Armstrong, what a great jazz musician.

You're like, no, no, no, he's a great jazz musician, but that's not a great jazz musician name because that could be my attorney. Yeah, Louis Armstrong, Esquire. Dr. Armstrong. I mean, he could be an astronaut. Like, you're thinking of that because we had an astronaut.

Yeah, yeah, no, no. But, like, Lewis Armstrong is a fairly straight down the middle name. Could be anything. That's true. But our first on this list, Phineas Newborn Jr. Come on. Come on. Could it be anything but a jazz pianist?

That kid had no options but to be a jazz pianist. He was like, I got to be a jazz pianist. My name's Phineas Newborn Jr. And we don't even, I always hear from people that I think may really know, like, Jeff Keiser says Finis, I believe. Like, I don't know, is it Phineas? I always learned Finiis, but I've been hearing fine. Is it finest?

Is it finest? Either way, man. Super jazzy name. It really adds to the effect of his music. Did I spell it right here? Yeah, you did. Okay, good. All right.

Next we have, we were gonna do seven, but it's just too many. We just kept going. Thelonious Monk. Great name. Was Tholonez Munk a junior as well, too? I don't know. One of the greatest names in history. Oh, it's so great.

It's so great. When I first heard his name and somebody was just like, you should check out Thelonius Monk. I was just like, wow, is he a religious? And then I saw a picture of him. I was like, man, this guy's like a religious guru, and he plays really good jazz piano. Like he's, that kind of is like the whole vibe,

kind of like Dr. Lani Smith, you know, like when it was cool to be a, you know, it still is cool to do it, but no one has that kind of imagination where you have a whole persona that you kind of envelop yourself in. Love it. Yeah.

Next is the great Bix Biterbeck. That's a great name. It's a great, yeah, I guess. It's scary a little bit. If I said to you, hey, my name's, Bix Biderbeck, what do you think I do for living? You would have to say, oh, you play jazz cornet.

There's no other option for you. Or white supremacist. I'm not sure which. Well, I don't know. It's just, it's hard to tell, right? It's so unusual. Now, wasn't Big Spiderback from Iowa? I have no idea.

Andrew's, I think he's from Iowa. I think he was. I'm not a Bix historian at all. Can you go on that special portal you have only for Iowa residents? The next was, you know, I said my name was almost or could have been Lester Manus the third. And one of my favorite jurisdictions named because of that is Lester Young. That's not particularly jazzy.

Young is a fairy. But it is because you're immediately thinking Lester Young. Well, yeah, the connotation. But that could also be the pork by hat. Yeah. I do own one pork by hat. Nice. But, you know, that could also be, he could be like Lester Young.

Totally. Lester Young. Yeah, it could be like Young, Armstrong, and Biterback and partners, you know. Well, no, not Biterback, but Young and Armstrong. Louis Armstrong and Lester. Now, that would be a good defense team for you. Lewis Armstrong and Lester Young? I'd hire them.

Very creative. Yeah, yeah. I couldn't afford him. Next, great pianist, hilarious person. Yeah, how did he get on here? Well, he's just great. I just love the name, Larry Goldings. It's great.

Is that a jazzy musician? It is a jazz music. That's because you think he's jazzy. I know, that's the thing. He's jazzy. Yeah, yeah. That's good. That's a great name, Larry Goldings.

There's a band called, I think it's called Scary Pocket. He made a great record featuring Larry Goldings called Scary Goldings. Scary Goldings. It's fantastic. We should do a whole other episode with, like, messed up jazz musician name you know people that like screw up like Larry Gold Rings you know

there was a great it was like the father somebody that was in the Lincoln Center band when I was playing with them the Lincoln Center Orchestra see I'm messing it up now the jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra when I was playing with them and he used to come with a lot of gigs when we would come through the town and his son actually played in the band

and he was like man I love and he always changed the name of the band he's like I love this Lincoln City this Lincoln Center the Lincoln City Band that's what he called Lincoln City Orchestra shit, that's awesome. He would never be like the jazz. He could never, because it's a complicated name.

Lincoln City. Lincoln City, that's a good band right there. That's great. Yeah. All right. Next we have fats. And we're going to go with all the fats.

The ones I could think of off the cuff was Fats Navarro, Fats Waller, Fats, Domino. But then there's others, Minnesota Fats. He has nothing to do with jazz. He was a billiards player.

I don't know if you knew about him. Before your time, before your time. But yeah, anyway, anything with fats, you know, and they're usually fat, but not always.

All the fats. They're either really fat or really skinny. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All the fats. Next, this Jerry Mulligan, I think, is such a great.

Mulligan is such a fantastic. I don't know any mulligans in real life. Do you know the mulligans? No. No, it's such a fantastic last name. Irish of origin, I guess. I suppose so. Scottish, I don't know.

And also, to me. I know you can pull a mulligan. It encapsulates that late 50s, early 60s era. Like, Jerry Mulligan is a guy. West Coast. West Coast. You see him on the golf course. He's taking mulligans.

He's taking a mulligan with a burlyack. on the golf course. Can you imagine this? Right, yeah. Yeah. Oh, there's one we didn't have that. Pepper Adams. What do you know about that?

Oh, Pepper Adams. The cool jazz scene is a whole thing. And imprisonment as well. That's a great autobiobot. Have you ever read his autobiography? No, no, no, no. Very good. About this time in prison on the in...

Art Pepper. Art Pepper. I don't know. Yeah. Isn't that what I said? Pepper Adams. Oh, pepper. Oh, that's different.

That's right. Oh, no, I'm thinking of Art Pepper. Yeah. Pepper is the one who wrote the autobiography in prison. Oh, I got you. Yeah. Okay, next, you got to present this one. Oh, man, I love this one.

Richie Byrack. That's good. It's got a certain, but could it be a Dr. Richie Byrack? Bringing back Frankenstein. Any of these could be Doctor or anything if you put Doctor in front of it. Richie Byrack, to me, it sets off the vibe of a thinly recorded piano with a bass recorded direct. You know what I mean? Thickly recorded bass, thinly recorded.

pierval. Oh, yeah, and the bass has the out, out, out, out, turned all the way. And possibly Dave Lehman on saxophone along with Richie. That's a good name, too. Oh, my gosh, I love it. I love it.

By the way, I'm not trying to be, we are fans of these. Oh, everybody on that, come on that. Come on, man. Jacco pastoral, Thelonious Monk. Yeah, come on. Now, this next one is, this is our youngest member of this list,

I would believe. Yeah, yeah. And I like the way you say his name, but I believe it's Laget Lund. Lange Lung. I actually, no, I was kind of a roommate with him in Italy for a couple days on a gig we did, yeah. It's a great player. Great player.

Amazing player, smart guy. But you called it, what did you call? Laj. That's kind of good. Laj Lund. And he's not Scandinavian. He may be of Scandinavian descent, but very American speaks with American accent and lives in Brooklyn. So he's of the Brooklyn Lunes. Not the Stockholm Lunes.

You know, next is our first nickname. Yeah. Dizzy. That's a nickname? Well, I guess no Fats would have been. I hope so. Gillespie. Gillespie. Does he get any jazier than that? That should have been our last one.

I have a friend. Although I do like I. I'm seeing our last one already. I have a friend. You know David DeRiso in the St. Louisian? Yeah, that's a great name. That's a great name. That's actually a jazzy name.

David DeRiso, yeah. Like the Italian jazz kind of. He's married to a woman named Dacey. Dasey Gillespie. Yeah. That's her name. That's her name. Nice.

Not Dacy DeRosa. That would be good, too. Darcy DeRosa. It has nothing to do with either of their last. names though. Oh wait, what's his last name? DeRiso. DeRiso. I thought it was DeRosa. Nope. Derisa, DeRosa. And he's not on the list. And he's not a jazz musician. Like, good musician. Okay, good. Next, we have Art Tatum. Great name. Great name. But again, now this we're definitely, we're getting into the territory of great player. So if he was any

named, if he was named anything, we're going to say he's great. But it is. It's got like Art Tatum. Like that's got a real boom, boon, right? I have a good friend, trumpet player, a very good Trump player in New York, named after Art Tatum, and his name is Tatum Greenblatt. Killing trumpet player. Not as well endowed in the names category, though. Tatum Greenblatt is an amazing.

I should put them next to Art Tatum, Art Tatum slash Tatum Greenblatt. Well, I'm just thinking here, I'm adding, I'm calling some allobiles, but this really could be any Brazilian jazz music. Antonio Carlos Jobin comes to Miami. Joubertoe. I mean, all of them work so well.

Ivan Lins. Oh, I like you. little to it. I like your next entry here singer-wise, Blossom Deary. That was not my entry, but that's a good one.

Was that Andrew? Oh, Andrew. Andrew jumped in there. Blossom Deer. That is the first list edition that Andrew has made in episode ever. Oh, that's awesome.

Andrew, I like it. Blossom Deary. I've never understood, like, I don't know if it's like two names that are made up or both given, which is first, which is last.

And it also, her voice sounds like her name should be Blossom Deary. Yeah. You know, She's got that very high-pitched voice. Rosemary Clooney always comes in mind, too. That's a pretty good name.

Rosemary Clooney. You're named after a herb. Yeah. All right. Our final of our jazziest names, these are the entire Marcellus family. That's right. Witten, Brantford, Delphio, Ellis, Marcellus.

Yeah, Jason. Jason. Even Jason Marcellus. I mean, there's a little more plain, but it's still... The Marcellus gives it a nice thing. But again, are we projecting because it's a jazz family?

I think when you have a family name... I mean, you could say the same things about the Breckers, even though they sound. It's this Germanish, you know. I mean, it's like... They're both great. Yeah, no, but I think the Marsalis has got a little bit of that New Orleans, a little bit of that French, so that definitely gives it a cool thing.

But, yeah, Winton, Brantford. And then Delphio, also Delfeo's, it's called several different things. I like to... Every time I see him, I call it something different. He doesn't care, so it's all good. All right. We have a bonus. It's a good one, too.

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What place are they in is probably an easy question. Okay, or what place? Second place. I believe that's true. I had no idea. I thought we were bad this year. We are staring at two computers. We could check it,

but we won't. No, no, that's not. We don't need to check it. I'm staring at a baseball computer right there, Andrew Kitchardt. Andrew does watch a lot of baseball. Sometimes it works. Sometimes while editing the you'll hear a podcast.

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You don't like the Cubs though No okay that's good Who has three favorite teams They're on the same division That's ridiculous man But I remember when none of those Well the pirates win the same I remember when Milwaukee was in a bit

Oh sure All right so we have our bonus here Now our bonus is the worst Jazz musician name of all time For a few reasons First of all it's a terribly bland name And second of all This man was notorious for stealing music

And tunes and not giving credit to black musicians Okay, now I feel bad that I'm laughing. I had no idea about that part of it. Oh, he was horrible. He was the worst. And, I mean, really, really abused black musicians in the early 20th century.

And his name was Paul Whiteman. Appropriately enough. Wait, was it Paul Whiteman or Paul White Man? Either way. Okay, so we don't want to go out on such a negative note. Why not? I mean, it's funny, but it's a little bit... Well, because about the stealing and all that.

I didn't even know. Bland, for sure. Can you vamp for a second? Because I got another good one, but I got to remember the name. So I'm going to just add my fun fact about Andrew since we're super Andrew-centric today on the Yule Here podcast.

Fun fact about Andrew, he has at his desk a tube that's, I don't know, would you say that's maybe 16 inches long, Andrew? Why are we doing more than one fun fact? Because I'm stalling for time here, man. Okay, okay. And it's full of and constantly being replenished

with jelly belly jelly beans. He eats an obscene, I'm going to say an obscene amount of jelly beans. And it really, and I had, fun fact, I had our friend of the show Matt Villager came to town and played a little ping pong. He took one look at Andrew's desk with his jelly bean container and thought it was a bomb. Wow. A tobacco bomb. Wow.

That's what we'll call it. Okay. There you go. Did you get turned. I found it. Yeah. Now this one, I was pretty worth it, man. I stalled for no good reason.

This one is a very interesting thing. Actually. So James Reese Europe Are you familiar with this gentleman? I remember, yeah, you mentioned him. I'm a shame that I just learned about him from Jason Moran, actually great pianist out of Houston that I got to hang out with and do some teaching with recently

and I was a shame that I didn't really know much about him but he served in World War I. I mean, I love that name, James Reese Europe. It's a great name. And then just that Europe is part of it. So we were going to go out on a positive note. If you don't know about him, Google James Reese Europe's super interesting story and integral part of the history of jazz.

And on that note, You all hear it.