You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - This Week in Jazz

Episode Date: April 12, 2019

It's another edition of This Week in Jazz where Peter and Adam recap the latest jazz news. Check out the articles they mentioned in this week's episode:Rolling Stones Cancel NOLA Jazz Fest: https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/festivals/article_e03045ae-54b1-11e9-9cb5-8bc4914cfe79.htmlLed Zeppelin Reunites (not really): https://www.nola.com/entertainment/2019/04/sorry-led-zeppelins-reported-jazz-fest-reunion-is-an-april-fools-prank.htmlNewport Jazz Festival Lineup: https://www.newportri.com/news/20190402/newport-jazz-festival-announces-latest-wave-of-artistsKeystone Korner reopens: http://toddbarkan.com/category/keystone-korner/Today'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.

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Okay. So actually, we got some big news this week. All right. And I'm kind of excited about some of these things. We're going to start in New Orleans So we're coming up on festival seasons So several of our things that caught my eye In news this week, our jazz festival related

And none was bigger than this When we talk about jazz fest Jazz Fest, we talk about Jazz Fest And I'm from New Orleans And in New Orleans we just call it Jazz Fest It was never like the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival That was just later on Or the accurate stage presents

That corporate crap It was Jazz Fest So it's still jazz fest. So it's still jazz fest. You know, they don't call New York-style pizza in New York. New York-style pizza. They just call pizza. That's right.

And in New York, nobody calls it Avenue of the Americas. It's sixth avenue. You're a big tourist. So anyway, but the New Orleans Jazz Fest, this is the 50th year. So this is a big year. It's a milestone. It's big. And so, like, they, because it's a jazz festival, they had to hire to book the biggest, most popular,

most iconic jazz group, or at least something New Orleans of all times. So this year, they booked their. Rolling Stones. Makes sense. No, I think they, you know, Quint and his amazing staff, they're Quinn Davis, the, one of the architects, founders and leaders of the jazz fest, you know, they really outdid themselves with this one. I mean, this is an amazing thing.

All jokes aside, I mean, they were like, we got to go big. They got to go big or go home. They've had you two. They've had other big groups there before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The boss, you know. But they, Lewis Armstrong, back of the day, played the jazz fest, believe it or not. But the thing about this was, you know, Rolling Stones, that's the biggest most expensive band, as far as I've heard in the world.

Now, so that's been booked for a while, big thing. What happened over this last week is that they had to cancel because Mick Jagger is sick, apparently. Yeah, that's a shame. So they backed out. And then this is a – Sure, it's not Keith Richards? I know. Keith Richards is going to be alive and everyone's going to be gone.

He's going to live us all. Yeah, it could be Ringlostar and Keith Richards. But then somebody did something – I don't even know. exactly who this was, but I read about on Nola.com. Big shout out to Nuisance Times-Picayune. But on April 1st, they had a little tomfoolery much as we did here at the you'll hear of a podcast. I heard about this.

And then they said Led Zeppelin was going to be reuniting. And people got so excited. They waited a whole day to say, no, we were just kidding. Led Zeppelin's going to be reuniting at Jazz Fest filling in for Rolling Stone. So that turned out to be untrue news. I'm not going to use the F-A-K-E news moniker because I don't believe in that. But that was more, having a little bit of fun. I think there was some depressed Led Zeppelin fans.

There's no Led Zeppelin without John Bonham, let's be honest. All right. And then also, you know, the other April Fool's thing is the fact that they were going to have a big jazz group at Jazz Fest. That was just April Fool's joke, though. Ah. Okay. Anyway. Some more news.

The Newport Jazz Fest announced the latest wave of artists to this year's festival. Yes. Set for August and 2nd at Fort Adams State Park. Yes. Have you been to Newport? I've never been to Newport. You've got to take a trip with them. You might have to take your group up there.

And we could talk to our friend, friend of the podcast, friend of Open Studio, Christian McBride. Big shout out. Artistic director. He's the artistic director. Hint, hint, hint. We're a little 442s there. But it's an amazing place right there. The sailboats come up.

I mean, it's beautiful. It's right at the end of that road with like the Vanderbilt house, like the biggest mansions in the country or the world. And usually the weather's amazing. And Christian's doing an amazing job. This is his second year, I believe, officially. And George Wien's still. little bit involved, which is cool, too, because he founded the festival.

So let's, let's, uh, rattle off some names here for this third wave of artists that are coming. Common. Yeah. A special performance by Herbie Hancock. You ever heard of him? Yeah, but you know what he's doing with the trio? It's a special trio. Yeah, with Christian McRide and Vinnie Calyuta.

Yeah, that's going to be nice. I like those guys. I like all three of those guys. Tank and the Bangas. Are you hip to Tank in the Bangas? No, I'm not. Dude. Do I need you?

Check it out. It's super great. Yeah. It's just like incredibly, uh, amazing. poetry and jazz. It's incredible. Nice. Ralph Peterson and the Messenger Legacy. This is funny. I'm just looking at the Saturday. I don't know what site you're looking at, but they kind of

screwed up the listing. It kind of worked out nicely, though. It says Saturday, August 3rd, 4th, State Park, Kamasi, Washington. These are bullet points. And then a special performance by Herbie Hancock with Christian McBride and Vinnie Caliuta. And then Diane Reeves with Peter Martin. And then another line, Romero LeBombo. And then another line. Reginald Veal and Terry Young. That's just Diane's band.

Yeah, that's the whole band. That was good. That's very cool. Wow. Okay, so there's, man, there's so many, maybe we should do it. You'll hear it from Newport this year. What do you think? That would be cool.

You'll be there. So maybe I'll just meet you up there. That would be awesome. Thundercat, I've never seen live. I want to see live. Thundercat is awesome. Always good to see the bad plus. Yep.

Let me see. Mark Turner. I haven't seen in a minute. I would love to see him again, especially at Newport. How are they going to fit all this in? Maybe this is just people that they booked and they're hoping to get sometime. I want to see the bass and drum duo

of Reginald Veal and Tariongully. That would be great. Tia Fuller's Diamond Cut, friend of the podcast, guest. Makaya McCraven. Have you heard that? Yes. Yeah, yeah.

That's such good stuff. No, this can be good. And then some stuff like that, you know, may not jump out at you, but it's probably going to be amazing. Berkeley Global Jazz Institute Workshop. That group, that's folks that are under the tutelage of John Patatucci and Danilo Perez's

kind of school within a school of Berkeley. Super interested in that. Well, let's talk to, Christian, see if we can't get a little backstage pass? Some little backstage pass for you'll hear it. Maybe we can meet our you'll hear it fans up there as well. That'd be cool. But it's a great festival, amazing. Very different than New Orleans that we spoke about

before. Way smaller. I mean, it's all these groups, which is great. But pretty much all jazz. I got to give it up, you know. And I mean, having common and stuff, like, I mean, he is so, like, to me that's no kind. I mean, I know some of the old school folks, they'll be like that totally counts. Yeah, I mean, he's so like, you know, tied in

with the modern jazz. world and the musicians. Yeah. And so that's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah. All right. So next we have in this week in jazz. Oh, this is cool.

The Keystone Corner is reopening in Baltimore. And I, you know, it's funny. I saw Todd Barkin like, I feel like it was, no, it was like a month ago in New York. Okay, maybe it was a little more because I think it was Jazz Congress, so maybe January. But I remember him saying, like we talked for a minute, always great to see Todd, legendary, you know, producer. He's the founder of the original Keystone Corner in San Francisco and then in the East. East Bay and then Japan and he booked Dizzy's at Jazz Lincoln Center early on and many great

things. N.A Jazz Master as well, Todd Barking. Amazing. Yeah, but he was saying, he's like, we're going to reopen. I'm going to restart Keystone Corner. And, you know, Todd's older now and he's talked about before. I was like, really? And but he did it.

And that's the kind of guy Todd is. And he's doing in Baltimore. I didn't catch that it was going to be in Baltimore. But I think this is super cool. It's opening April 30th. And he's already got a bunch of really good people. I don't know if you've heard of a gentleman named Ron Carter. Who?

Ron Carter Trio who's going to be opening the first couple days they just had Cyrus Chestnut in the club

picking out a Steinway piano Todd does it right you know I mean it's in Baltimore you better lock that bad boy up if you know

what I'm saying shout out to Warren Wolf Baltimore East Baltimore in the house but Joey D D

Francesco's some famous organ he has is going to be housed there really so there's some good stuff

happening there sounds like it's going to be a Kenny Garrett's is going to be there the first week a new

hot spot yeah for jazz in the East Coast. That's great. And I mean, Baltimore is such a jazz town, and they haven't always had, you know, venues that's stuck around a long time. So I'm really excited about this.

Well, man, this has been a great addition of this weekend jazz. I think, I mean, unless you have more, that you'd like to talk about? That's it. We had a couple more things, but we could do that next week of jazz. We could call that.

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wait around the backstage entrance when you see a musician, put on a ski mask and grab one of their passes, and then you can go in for free. How's that? That's an ultimate tip. Not bad. Don't hear it.