You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - This Week In Jazz - #40

Episode Date: October 19, 2018

Today on You'll Hear It, Peter and Adam discuss current events and popular new articles about jazz. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Do do do do do do do do news slash little paper boy. I'm Adam Maness and I'm Peter Martin and you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast. Daily jazz advice and non-fake jazz news coming at you. Now this is exciting. I love days where we have new features. This is going to be a new feature. It's going to be a new feature. Absolutely. Well, it's going to be a new feature if our listeners enjoy it because you know we're a listener-driven podcast. Do we really care though really? We do, man. We love the feedback loop.

All right. Yeah. Even when we pretend like we don't care, we get sucked back into it. We care too much. If caring too much is a sin, I don't want to be right. My only fault is that I do care too much. That's right. This was an idea by our boy Dan over here, one of the co-founders of Open Studio, Dan Martin.

And he said we should do a This Week in Jazz episode. Yeah, and he literally said it 10 minutes ago. Yeah. And we're doing it now. Yeah, because we're so starved for ideas. We thought, yeah, we can do it. that. Yeah, but no, this should really be fun because he hipped us to this, this source, and we're not even going to give it out because we don't want people like skipping ahead,

but this is readily available stuff. But there's some sources online for jazz news. Now, I'm not talking about the Utah Jazz. There's sources for that as well, but if you know how to finally tune your iOS or Android or Windows phone device, you can find these things where it gives you, you know, different things. And apparently there are enough things beyond just the you'll here a podcast happening in jazz every week. Really? Yeah. Well, we're going to see. Do you ever find it frustrating and just like revealing that the magnitude of sports is such that if you Google jazz, like a pretty subpar basketball team comes up before any musician?

Hey, they're getting better though, man. I've been kind of following them just because of that exact thing. They've never reached a promised land. Caram alone, that was their best shot. That was great. Yeah. All right. Okay, so we're going to look at, you know, we'll probably do the top seven, but we'll see where it goes because this is our first time.

We're just feeling this out. So, you know, the first one I see here is the Dundee Jazz Festival 2018. And this is an article from Creative Dundee. And I just got excited about this. I have the feeling this is in London or something. But I got excited because it said, I was talking about the Dundees on the office, which is their annual award. I was like, man, they're doing a Dundee Jazz Festival,

but it's spelled D-U-N-D-E. Dundee Jazz Festival 2018 will thrill music fans with more performances than ever before, covering many styles of jazz. jazz, including blues, Afro beat, soul, funk, big man in Latin, and blah, blah, blah. It's going to be November 14th through 17th. Where is it, though? It's in Scotland. It's in Scotland.

Okay, that's where it is Dundee. Okay. And so that's coming at you in, is that the name of the town? It must be, right? I guess so. Streets include Clark's on Lindsay Street. I love the names of the streets over there. That's so awesome.

Man, should we do a field trip, the 14th through 17? Are you available? You want to do a live, you'll hear it at the Dundee Jazz Fest. I would love. Dundee, if you guys are listening, man, send us some tickets and a couple of suites at the Dundee Hilton. And we're there, man. That's great.

We're simple, man. We're simple men. So anything on the lineup there? Yeah, the lineup looks, I actually didn't. Oh, Gonzalo, Bergara, Miles Davis. Wow. Oh, tribute to one of jazz grades, Miles Davis. Dude, I think we can headline the Dundee Jazz Fest.

Otis Taylor and Alvin Youngblood Hart. Well, you know, they're doing their thing. Sounds like an eclectic lineup. No, it looks like a lot of Scottish musicians, which is good. I love it when Jazz Fest feature local musicians from that region. Because, you know, like, if they don't, then every Jazz Fest is the same. You know what I mean? It's like put a little local flare in there.

You know there's some killing jazz musicians up in Scotland. That's my people. Yeah. Oh, is it? I didn't know that. The Manis. Yeah. I have a couple of relatives in Edinburgh.

Oh, nice. Yeah. A couple relatives. Yeah. All right. We're going to skip ahead here down to some more news stories. There are literally two stories in a row. that deal with people have replaced clapping with jazz hands.

Now, I don't know if this has anything to do with jazz music, but it is hilarious as a new story. I don't know how jazz hands, which is the act of, and I'm doing it now, kind of sparkly. What's up you too? Everybody knows it. Keep searching. What jazz hands are.

How does that get, I mean, that's a dance thing, but like, why is that jazzy? Yeah, I know. Well, the thing is, you know, in popular culture and vernacular, I feel like jazz, we're either just mocked, as jazzy or we're like super cool drugged out you know that's true you know there's no middle ground to the actual area that we the space in the cultural landscape that we actually occupy so all right

so i'm going to read this a little bit of this one article the name of the article is university students reject clapping at events in favor of jazz sand hold your applause please that's the new rule for some events at the university in manchester and the uk after the students union voted to replace clapping with its sign language equivalent popularly known as jazz hands. Yeah. I wonder. Well, look at the sourcing on this story.

I don't know about this one. Oh, so they're doing it because loud noises, including whooping and traditional applause, can pose an issue for students with disabilities, such as anxiety and sensory issues. So their heart's in the right place. So now you feel bad for mocking the jazz hand. I do kind of feel bad, actually.

I feel really bad. Well, that's why we read the whole article, so we learn these things. That's cool. Awesome. All right. So next I'm seeing in Variety, which is, of course,

the Los Angeles-based entertainment weekly, I believe, possibly even daily, magazine covering all things of entertainment, not necessarily jazz. In fact, rarely jazz. But this is cool. It's a concert review. Nora Jones rocks out amid jazz comeback in L.A. show. And I love the way this starts.

Thank heaven, Nora Jones ditch jazz. And thank the stars she came back. But she was at the theater of theater at the Ace Hotel, which is a super cool, cool place there in West Hollywood. I think it's in West Hollywood. And actually two of our good friends, Chris Thomas is on base and Brian Blade, and they both made it into the picture,

which is really cool because they were smart and set up very close to Nora Jones on that gig. I loved it. Your last trio gig that was here in town in St. Louis, you did with Chris Thomas and Brian Blade, and they literally just did it in a window. They were on tour with Nora Jones. And I was like, yeah, we'll just go play

with Peter Martin and St. Louis. Next time I see Nora, I'm going to tell her. I'm going to be like, look, this is cool. Actually, I've joke with her before about this. But this was before she had both of them playing at the same time, and only a trio. Yeah. I was like, man,

that trio is I eat, but I was doing that back in the early 90s, you know. No, but this is really cool. So they played out in Monterey. If only she was as good looking as you are. Well, let me look.

If I had a wig on, what I look like, no, I wouldn't look like her at all. I wouldn't. But this is cool. Nice little run through. So if you're interested in that,

just check that online on variety. You can get a feel. They were doing gigs all last week and this week, actually, on the West Coast. They did a couple jazz festivals, Monterey Jazz Festival

with the same trio. Oh, nice. Did you see him out of her? No, we were actually playing at exactly the same time on a different stage. So that was kind of a drag. But, you know, she, I know that they were doing some of her original material, some of the Hank Williams stuff, and then, you know, of course, her hits and stuff. And I don't think that really the way that Chris and Brian were described it to me,

it's not necessarily that different than what they did with the last couple tours with the slightly larger band. It's just because it's piano trio. Yeah. Only piano and acoustic bass. and drums that everyone's like, oh, she's back into jazz and stuff. And her thing has never really changed so much. It's got the jazz flare, I guess,

and she's smart and that she gets really good jazz players. I'm a sucker for it, man. Especially the trio stuff. That reminds me of her first couple albums. I'm a total sucker. And she, you know, whenever she's at the piano, she's always been great about staying right, just great-sounding stuff, right in the groove,

doing what she can do and doing her thing. Not flashy at all, but talk about a musician that you can kind of recognize very quickly, that they're the pianist, you know, Nor Jones. has our own sound for sure. So what else is happening this weekend? So we have a billboard article here. Jerry Gonzalez,

legendary trumpet player, dies after firing his Madrid home. Sad news in the world, especially of Latin jazz. Yeah. I mean, he's such a pioneer and brought up a lot of young players and on the whole,

you know, salsa Latin jazz scene. And this was really shocking and such a drag. You know, I mean, we've been losing too many of the masters. We always are in this music. And this is a music that I think we do a great job of, of, you know, recognizing great players and seeing them as they get older, often well into their 80s, 90s, still great players and

contributing. And Jerry was certainly one of those. And I think he was around 70. And what is it? At 60, yeah, 69. And, you know, but he's like at the peak of his thing in a lot of ways. So this was totally, he left us way too soon. horrible. Well, we'll end here with kind of a lighthearted review of the 2021 Honda Jazz.

Yeah, well, now that's a little problem where we do have some things kind of jump into this. Actually, you know, man, this one is personal for me because in our house, we have a Honda Fit, which is the American, which is the American version of the Honda Jazz. And I'm like, can't we get a jazz over here? Why can't you have jazz? It's America's music. Well, there was like a marketing meeting, obviously, when they were like, should we call it jazz? No, call it jazz everywhere but America. Yeah. That's going to make it sound pretentious or... Jazz has negative connotations.

It's like jazz hands and quiet, you know, quiet concerts. We want this to make some noise, you know. All right, man. Can I throw one more bonus in? You got it. All right, just because this is New Orleans based. I see this. And this is in nola.com.

And I would just say, these are my friends at nola.com is the former New Orleans. Well, it's still there. The New Orleans Times speaking, you're the great newspaper out of New Orleans. and they started nola.com, which actually came to quite a bit of notoriety, won some Pulitzer Prize and stuff for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina in the aftermath. But this is one. Irvin Mayfield's New Orleans Jazz Orchestra barely met payroll amid five-star hotel stays, bar tabs in the audit.

So this has been an ongoing story. And I've known Irvin for a long time. And I would say he's a, normally this is the time where I'd be like, he's a good guy, but there's mounting legal evidence and a paper trail that he's. at least in terms of his, you know, his fiscal guidance of this great organization, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, has been amiss for years. And I think a lot of musicians knew this way back in the day that there was something a little bit fishy. I think his heart was in the right place in terms of what he started here.

But, you know, you can't do. I mean, when you're running a nonprofit organization, and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra just real quick, it's like great New Orleans players. And it's about taking the music out of New Orleans, but in the big man setting, touring around the world, great guest artists. it's great recordings, some wonderful things. Yeah. But when you're financing some of that stuff with, you know,

grants and, and donations, even some government, you know, state, local, federal funding or whatever, you need to, you can't run that thing like your big baller time. You know, you do that when you get a bunch of money from the gig on your own dime. And I think what he fell into here, and, you know, I could have spoken on this earlier, and I would have been correct too, but now there's actual evidence of it is that, you know, we have to be very careful when you go into the to the nonprofit organization world you have to be on the up and up with everything that you do yeah and you know the shame about this is that it this kind of can give like a negative connotation to those non-profits that oh your money's being

wasted or whatever when 99% of them are literally shoestring together like people who are like super dedicated and don't make any money you know what I mean really yeah off it so it's but that's why it's important to really read and understand and read more and in this day and age of everybody at attacking the media and all this. Like it's up to us. We have access. And look, we're joking around with news of jazz. But this is actually exciting to be able to think about and get access to some of these,

these, you know, contemporary issues every week about jazz. And you need to go below the service. So New Orleans Jazz Orchestra is continuing. It hasn't been with Irvin for a while now. I mean, he's stripped of that. I think he's indicted or something. Yeah. But Donis Rose, great drummer from New Orleans is heading it up.

And I think it's doing wonderful things now. And so the name of it shouldn't be besmirched. Whoa, hello, ding-dink. Give generously to the new ones chat. Yeah, well, I mean, you know, check it out closely. No, but I mean, as long as they've been able to untangle from the former thing, which I think that they have. No, with all these things, you want to read about it and then dig deeper. You don't want to just go off just the headlines, even though we just did that for seven stories.

We just went off the headlines. No, we dug a little bit. We dug a little bit. What do you think about the new feature? Are you into it? I feel good about it. You want to try to get next week? Let's try it.

Well, let's wait till the people say. All right. What do you think, Brianna? Thumbs up. She says it's good. We're doing it next week. All right. Well, then maybe next week, you'll hear it.