You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - The Top 7 Jazz YouTubers - #181

Episode Date: August 17, 2018

In today's episode, Peter and Adam list some good (and not so good) jazz influenced YouTubers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I'm Adam Manist. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear at Podcast. Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. Brought you by Open Studio. Finiston Jazz Online Education. Now, Adam, you look a little mystified today. Are you feeling okay?

I'm looking at the title of what we have going on today. And it's the top seven jazz YouTubers. Now, I know we're on YouTube now. They're shout out to YouTube in a basic way. But the majority of people that are experiencing this podcast are audio. I'm just wondering how we're going to pull this off. Dude, you don't ever listen to NPR, man? All the time.

You know, when they're describing, you know, like your beloved ice coffee, which you don't have today, which I think is part of the reason you're a little off your game. Oh, I didn't see it hiding behind your chair there. See, now that just, you just gave people a YouTube experience from the audio. See, that's what we're storytellers. Okay. They don't have to see it. They can go look at these.

We're going to talk about them, and then some of them they may know, some they may not know. We don't have to, we'll play a little bit of the audio from some of them. But basically, we're just going to talk about our YouTubers. Our loyal listeners can scurry off afterwards and check them out. And, oh, let's remember at the end of the episode to list again, remember we said. Oh, yeah, yeah, we didn't do that all week. We haven't done that all week, yeah, but we need to get back into it. Are you okay now?

You look a little, you still look a little uncomfortable. I'm a little unsure about what's going to happen, but I'm willing to take that risk. Let's do it. All right. Okay, number one, just to really throw you off, we're going to start with someone you don't even know because you just told me you didn't know him. And that's Jeff Schneider. Who?

Jeff Schneider. Who? I love that name. Jeff Schneider. Now, I don't know this guy. And when I first saw his stuff, I was kind of laughing a little bit. But the more I dug in, like, he really knows some cool stuff. You know, he definitely specializes in like, you know, stuff, the kind of intersection between jazz and R&B, the sort of sick, dirty chords.

Well, I was going to say the first video I have that comes up is how to play sick R&B chords. That's right. Let's hear a little bit. Let's hear a little bit. Hey, everybody. I'm Jeff Schneider. And in today's video, I'm going to show you a song that I've been working on, something I'm writing here. It's only eight bar phrase right now, but it's got a nice melody, some really nice chords, very gospely, R&B, NeoSoul, all that great stuff.

So I want to play it for you first, just the melody, then I'll add the chords, and I'll break it down. He'll take it. Yeah, you know what I mean? ...been face behind them and apply it to your own music. Here we go. Oh, look out now. Come on out. Laying the groove down.

Two, three. So if you just stop there with only the track, you'd be. like, but I mean it's a nice, like for what he says he's going to teach you, he does. And we don't have to listen to the whole thing. It just kind of repeats there. But I mean, he breaks it down. He shows you. He's got some nice visuals as far as showing the course. It may not be the exact kind of thing that we're looking for, but I think for a lot of people like, what's great about his YouTube channel is he tells you, you know, exactly what it's going to be. Yeah. In the thumbnail and the title, and then he delivers on that. I have to say it looks and sounds high quality, which is good. Yeah,

and the quality is really good. It's better than most, you know, 99. He's got the illuminated the illuminated notes, you know. Okay. He does look like he's about 12 years old, which is a little bit off-putting as far as to. That doesn't mean he can play. Exactly. No, he can play. He can play.

All right. So, anyway, big shout out to Jeff Schneider. Okay. Wherever you are. I'm going to check out some Jeff Snyder for sure. Yep. All right. All right.

All right. What do we have for number two? Number two, oh, this one I have heard of, Amy Nolty. Amy Nolty. She's great, actually. She gives a lot of good advice, kind of like the Jeff Schneider thing. Good quality, short stuff, gets to the point. Yep.

She's a jazz pianist and a jazz vocalist, I believe, right? Yes. Yeah, really good singer, great pianist. And I've been kind of seeing her stuff because people have been sort of sending it to me or it's been sort of popping up since she started a while ago. She's really taken off fast. And I see why because she does, well, she does a combination of things. She does some performance stuff from her gigs.

I think she's in L.A. But she does some really good just tutorials where she breaks down and goes deep and is on there for a while. Maybe you have one queued up here. I don't know. No, I don't have anything queued up. Oh, you were doing something for later? That's fine. So, but I mean, she does like funk piano tutorial over just the two of us.

Oh, yeah, this was one that really caught my eye near the tastiest Oscar Peterson Blues piano lick. So it's a little bit clickbaity, but that's my kind of clickbait. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Like, you're going to click on that. Yeah, I don't want to see like, you know, you're not going to believe what Donald Trump looks like after one year in office, you know, but this I will.

And so it's really cool. Like, she breaks down and, like, writes out the, the, the, the phrase and like plays in it's a really cool phrase and I mean it's you know if you're looking for that kind of thing it's great and she knows her stuff so big fan that's awesome man yeah um so what do we have for number three we've got oh okay so this is not really like a youtube channel but it's some of the more popular and I think deservedly YouTube videos that we've seen yeah no this is the the Herbie Hancock Jacob Collier talking about the sort of levels of harmony yeah was that right is the levels of harmony yeah

Yeah, yeah, the harmony in five levels. It's pretty fascinating. Yep. Video. As we both scurry to pull it back up, we had it here for a... It's like, it starts at like goes by ages. Remember, he sort of starts by like a four-year-old would kind of understand. It's pretty cool.

It's a pretty cool concept. And to hear these two, I mean, Jacob Collier, whatever you might think of this kind of young upstart musician, he's amazing at what he can do. Yeah. And his just sort of bass music. IQ is off the charts. And Herbie is obviously Herbie. And to hear them talk about this kind of theory is pretty fascinating.

Even if you don't understand it, most of it. No, but they break it down in a really non-technical way. But they go deep on it, I think. And they go level one, two, three, four, five, child, teen, college student, professional, level five is Herbie Hancock. I love that. That was hilarious. Well, so, and since we're on Jacob Collier here, it made me think of the interview.

This looks like it's an interview with Jacob Collier about music theory, and it looks like it's backstage. And what's so amazing is that Jacob Collier is talking about music theory. He's singing these examples. And then the interviewer adds to the video like actual pitches. And Jacob Collier was singing everything perfectly in pitch. Here's a little example. And so there are different ways of feeling about the brunts and the darkness of things. But yeah, the super ultra-hypo mega-metallidion.

I don't know if I call it a scale, but it's like a sound. the idea of Lidian not stopping it at the route when you arise like do do do do do do do you know yeah that piano isn't live in the room that was added later right right and Jacob just sung those notes in tune like on you know as he's discussing this backstage after a concert it's pretty unbelievable yeah no he's awesome and I mean with the the the British action just pushes it to 11 you know what I mean that makes it even classier makes it even more serious okay so what do we got after that so next we have Chick Korea. Now, of course, there's so many amazing performance videos of Chick from over the years,

which are great on YouTube, but I've particularly been looking at his tutorials and some of his educational content, which is just great. He's a fascinating teacher. I mean, obviously he's got a wealth of information, but like whether or not it can come across in an entertaining and interesting way. It definitely does. He does, I mean, the tutorial on Spain, and I've been messing with that tune forever, is so amazing. Is that one? Is that the one? No, it sounded like it. Excuse me, but. So he breaks down Spain, and they got the overhead camera,

and then they've got a transcription of, like, how he plays it, and he does it in some really innovative ways. You know, he goes through his improv piano exercises, way of hearing, his mirror image piano exercise, a lot of great stuff on that. I believe they're on his channel. Yeah, they are. His channel, Chickoria.

So pianists, but really just any musicians should really want to, you know, check in on that for sure. That's awesome. All right. So for number one, two, three, four or five, we have Bernie's bootlegs. Now, you have this on here. I've never heard of Bernie's bootlegs either. Oh, you haven't said, well, now, if you've seen any of these like, you know, um, you know, the set, you know, the seven times keychair went beast mode and fell off his chair.

That's, that's Bernie's, um, Bernie's bootlegs for sure. So wait, let me just, okay, wait, you went out of order, man. You threw me off my game here. Well, sorry. No, I have, I have a plan for this. I have a plan for this. Yeah. Bernie's bootleg is, I believe the name, um, yeah, Donnie McCaslin utterly annihilating. a B-flat blue. Come on, man. No one's utterly annihiling anything.

It's great stuff. I love, like, I'm into like the clickbaity YouTube stuff. I think it's hilarious. But I think it's really interesting copy, like old school ad copy is what it really is. So he's got stuff like,

those seven times Bill Evans went next level genius. Seven times, wait, where do you get seven times from? Hold on now. Is he maybe copping off this podcast? Well, this was a year ago. We haven't been around a year.

Maybe we were coming off. Seven times Chick-career went beast-mo. you know. Wait, are we clickbait? Yeah. Chris Potter going completely insane on on moments notice. Oh my gosh. No, but you know what it is? He or her, whoever is Benny's bootlegs

has a knack. First of all, I love that you go ahead and put bootleg in the titles just so that no one can even come after you for copyright infringement. You put it out there. Obviously I'm ripping this off. But I think he or she is Bernie, Benny. Is it Benny Benny or Bernie? Bernie. Bernie's bootlegs.

shout out to Bernie. Definitely a saxophone player because it trends, I mean, a lot of pianos, but trends saxophone. And it's got like, you know, 10 truly brilliant sax players you never heard of. Definitely the beast mode. He loves doing that. There was, oh, there was one he had that was like Kenny Garrett. And, man, he put together these clips.

And they were really spot on, I think. It was, yeah, well, seven times Kenny Barrett went beast mode. But Kenny Barrett goes beast mode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he put together a nice little combination of there. That's awesome. Check in on that. So for number six, we have hometown hero Peter Martin. Who?

You? What? Bro, that's you. No. How'd you slip that on there? And your two-minute jazzes. These are really popular and these are really good. And also, I've noticed something that you've kind of gotten into.

What's going on, everybody? Peter Martin here for two-minute jazz piano. Today I want to show you some sweet, sick ways to use the pentatonic scale. Huh. I think that was a little Jeff Schneider influence there. Clickbait much, buddy? Yeah, might have been. I think we actually sat down together to be honest and plotted that one out.

I know we did, but it's kind of a joke. We're definitely winking at it a little bit. Yeah, we were. But I threw down some sick, what was it that was so sick about what I did? I try to deliver on it at least. Let's find out. Yeah. Scale in jazz.

Actually, I don't know if it's going to be. It's a penitonic scale. Oh, penitonic. Hey, that's safe. But basically, there's a lot of pentatonic scale. We heard it all before. I don't know if you notice. My two minutes.

No, they're like three and a half on average. Yeah. But I would just say that. I'm not, I maybe I'm the originator of the two minute jazz concept but we've had many of our other artists doing two minute jazz is now I might say several of them

quite a bit better than mine both in terms of content and timing to be honest I would point folks to the Christian McBride your sound is your signature two minute jazz that's a great and one thing I don't know if you noticed about that it's exactly two minutes and we didn't even really tell I mean we said two minutes

but we didn't have a time man McBride's the best he took it seriously man he went two minutes Well, if we're talking about two-minute jazz, we have to talk about then and kind of go on to the lighter side of YouTube jazz people, and that is the one-minute jazz. That's Jacob Mann, who is actually really talented pianist and keyboardist, and he has these videos called One Minute Jazz. I don't know if they were based off of your two-minute jazzes. I mean, he's trying to be a little bit better. Yeah, I mean, I would be flattered if they were, but I mean, they're twice as good, I guess, because they're twice as short. You haven't seen the one minute jazzes, especially the one on endings is my favorite one.

Can we play a little bit of that? Do we have that? Let me see if I have that. I could riff on this a little bit, you know. If I have that cute up, oh, I have, oh, yeah. I'll just say that about the two-minute jazz, the whole reason I started doing that was actually that, I made the first two-minute jazz pre-you-tube. So it was not just a click-baby two-minute concept that I wanted to get into the title, but it kind of worked. Hi, this is Jacob with one-minute jazz.

Oh, okay. He talks over the intro. How to end a tune. I'm here in the studio with my trio, and now we're going to take the last date of Dolphin Dance. Dolphin Dance. So let's get a shot. Five, six, seven, eight. It's not dolphin.

Oh, man. Oh, yeah, you got to keep this. It's good. And the visuals that go along. You got to check out the video. That's so happening. Big shout out. Thank you, Jacob, Mann, for just existing.

One minute jazz. Awesome. Yeah. Well, I mean, if we're going... Eli's laughing. Yeah, Eli. Our audio engineer is laughing. Okay.

If, all right, to... I think that was seven, but we're going to go next level as we... Like, we're going to go beast mode on this list, okay? Yeah, I mean... We're going to the originator of the funny jazz videos. I mean, pre- YouTube, pre-internet, possibly, at least conceptually. And that is the great Austrian pianist, our friend. Hans

Groiner Groiner Groiner Yes friend of the of the podcast I don't know we haven't talked to

in a while Hans Groiner on Hans Groiner is a is a character is it created well some people might not know who it is we don't

we don't want to give it away oh okay sorry yeah let's leave it out there check out Hans Groiner here's one he did a jazz piano lesson from my music master class shout out to my music

master class yeah so check this out this is Hans Groiner giving a piano listen I went to get the back to Maiden Voyage. Now, when Mr. Hancock writes,

F, Suss, Suss, of course, means sustain. I suppose this is a mysterious thing about this. I believe that he meant sustain for, and you decide how long. So in the beginning, we have D, sustaining. Straight triad. Yeah, straight triad.

For however long you want then. How good is that? Oh, it's awesome. That's so good, man. Yeah, yeah. If you haven't checked in, the visuals are great, the audio, the execution. Yeah, Hans Groiner. Shout out to Hans Groiner for all he does for the jazz community.

That's right. Yeah. So we are still at You'll Hear It.com. We've been getting a little traffic at the You'll Hear It. We almost had our servers pulled down from traffic on a favorite episode the other day. Are you exaggerating slightly? I don't know. I got an email alert, but I think that was probably our error on our.

I was going to say, did we pay our server bills? Yeah, it was more of that. But we like to call that. But you can leave a comment. You know, you can, we started to feature, I don't know if you notice this. We're featuring some of our latest reviews. Okay. And ratings there.

Not because we're proud of them, but we are proud of them. Yeah, we are. But it's actually, I think it's an automated system. So if someone would have put a bad review, it would show up too. Don't think we're only highlighting the good ones. You know, as you can see, there's quite a few five-star reviews. No seven-star. So it's like we're already going down.

But we like to. Read them from time to time. So I'd like to say one. This is from Flash vibes. We're still getting the weird, unauthentic names, but it's all good. Flash vibes from United States of America. This is five stars. But the title of the review is seven stars.

So it's actually a seven stars. Two, so I'm saying, man. Yeah, there you go. I miss that. This is a great resource. I'm a musician and middle school music teacher myself. I went to University of New Orleans where Peter taught. Shout out.

There is a ton of great information here, and it's fun to listen to. I'm applying their lessons to my, own practice. Okay, this episode, sidebar, you might not want to apply all of these, like the Hans Griner's stuff, but we do. I mean, that's sustained for, I think that what you're, yeah, I'm applying their lesson in my own practice and will recommend this to my students and colleagues who are interested in learning jazz. Ten stars for the pods where Peter and Adam give musical examples on the piano, such as number 146, seven ways to end the tune. All right, so he's not going to like this week. Yeah, we're going to get back to the piano next week. You know what? We've got to go piano next week. We're going to do

some hard-hitting nose to the grind stuff. We're gonna go beast mode on the podcast next week. Are you ready? You sure? Young Eli? We're gonna go beast mode.

Like scales on our pediose. You know what? We're not even gonna do scales. We're gonna do scales. With a Z, a couple zes on the end. Peter and Adam go beast mode on scales on arpeggios. Bam, tune in next week.

All right. Well, next week. You'll hear it.