You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - This Week in Jazz - #5

Episode Date: January 4, 2019

It's another edition of "This Week in Jeff Goldblum" as Peter and Adam talk about the actor's jazz album, plus Adam recommends some reading material, and Peter discusses one of his favorite jazz bassists. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey, Peter. Hey, Adam. Who's your favorite member of the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra? It's a tie between Mildred and Jeff. Jeff Goldblum, that is. I'm Adam Manus. And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast. Daily Jazz Advice and banter coming at you.

Jeezy banter for the new year. Really? It's always a little bit, but it's what we do. It is what we do. Such shame in your face as you said that. So now it's time for our monthly edition of This Week in Jazz. Yeah, where we shove a whole month's worth of non-Utah Jazz-related jazz news without jazz hands. As much as we can find non-Utah Jazz Related.

Yeah, and into one week. But this is going to be a little bit funny because we're barely into the new year. So we might dip a little bit back into last week, right? Probably. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, so like the first thing that I see that catches my eyes that Jeff Goldblum's jazz album, hit the number one spot on the charts.

Yes. That would be, um, that would be, what would we call that? Sad, disturbing or joyous. It's kind of a combination of all,

right? Inevitable? Inevitable. Yeah. Yeah. No, look, I mean, we talked about this,

I think on an earlier, uh, 2018 last season, a little bit about Jeff Goldblum. He's having a moment, as we say, in many different ways. And we're so happy for him here.

And we're just dripping in, in pride and, and, No, but I mean, look, the record's not as nearly as bad as you would think it is. That's the first thing. Is that accurate? No. Really?

I mean, I guess it depends on your expectations of the record. Okay, I'm saying that, like, let's compare it to me acting in a Jurassic Park movie in place of Jeff Goldblum. Or you. Yeah, not a... I think this might be better than we would do as an actor in a movie, his playing. I don't know. It's more professional. I look at myself in the mirror and try to try to try to work.

work on my poses quite a bit. Yeah. Well, maybe not. I don't know. I don't know. I actually, have you listened to the whole record? No. Yeah, but I have watched several the videos. Yeah, they're very entertaining. They are very entertaining. So yeah, when you combine it with that and look,

he's actually playing the piano. Yeah, he is. He's a pianist. So from the videos, have you gained some insights? And there may be some crowd work you can be doing while you're playing, give them one of these? Man, he's so good at that. Yeah, I'm not above doing that, but I mean And the fact that he turns so slowly and smiling so broadly, you know, with such confidence is pretty amazing.

Okay, so one thing I'd also like to bring up here as this weekend jazz. There's a really great article on Pop Matters about this new book from Nate Chenen called Playing Changes. Have you checked out this book yet? I haven't checked it out. I'm only 50 pages in, but I'm digging it big time. That's great. Yeah, it's all about jazz in the 21st century.

Yeah. from 2000 on. And it's just really, it's really interesting to read about such recent history. And this great, you know, he's a really, really terrific writer. Even if you don't agree with every kind of thing he has to say about jazz in the New Century, it is a really good read, totally worth it. And I guarantee you're going to get some great ideas for things to listen to. You know, what's cool that I haven't really done is read a book like this with like Spotify

open. And so anytime he brings up something I don't know I can immediately kind of listen to it as I'm reading and get an idea of what exactly what he's talking about. Right. Well, and it's great too because jazz in the 21st century we think, well, what is there to write about? Well, we're 19

years in, my friend, according to my calculations. Absolutely, yeah. So I mean, there really is like to be able to start to kind of put some historical view on where we're at and where things are going. It's kind of time for that to be done. I mean, if you think about

that's like 1960 to 1979, a lot happened. Exactly. And it's always easy for us to be like, oh, it'll never be like before, but sometimes we're in the middle of things, you know. So the other things that have kind of happened in the news has been all these sort of best of

we had one award-winning one ourselves last week, but the best albums, you know, kind of best moments and stuff. And one that I was looking at is from something called Paste magazine, which I was a little leery of at first. But it turns out is a totally legit thing. And it was an interesting list.

And part of it, like there's a couple on there. Well, there was at least one on there that made our list as well, so it caught my eye. But there was some records I didn't really know, most of which I'm really excited. You know, I didn't know that came out last year, so I'm excited to dive into those. But I want to hit on one in particular, which is number 10 of their top 10 list. So it's their bottom of the line. All the way down. All the way down.

And that's Carlos Enriquez, his dizzy conclave. Shout out to Carlos. I want to shout him out and clown on him because. You know, I got a little thing going with Carlos, a little Ted Ate, as they would say, in France. Careful. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a family, but I mean, you know, Carlos is a wonderful basis. I use that term very loosely.

Basist and wonderful. And, no, we have a thing going for years. No, he's a great, very funny guy, a great bassist that's played with Wintmarsall's in the Jazz and Lincoln Center Orchestra for years. Yeah. I mean, way too many years, you know, for Winton to have him, to be honest, you know. But, I mean, look, this is such a ridiculous title. I got a clown of Dizzy Con Clave. Come on, come on, man.

You know, can we do a come on, man? You know, like they do on TNT basketball. You've ever seen that episode? Yeah, of course, yeah, yeah. Come on, man. Yeah. We could do that. And it's, you know, live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola.

It's got this ridiculous picture of Carlos when he was thinner, way thinner and younger than he actually is. Man, you are really going in. Oh, I'm going in. Look, we're tag Carlos on this episode, all right? Carlos, I am not in on this, by the way. I don't know him well enough to clown. Actually, it's probably a pretty good record. You know, of course it's a good.

Yeah. Wait, you haven't checked it out? No, a friend are you? Well, now I'm just reading about it. It's got Melissa Aldana. I love her playing. Great, great young saxophonist. Mike Rodriguez and

Rodriguez and Terrell Stafford, two trumpets, they're great, and they're doing some grooving Afro-Cuban music. So probably, oh, and Obed, Calvair is on drums. I mean, this is going to be a killing record. I wonder if there's a way to remove the bass

as you're listening to it because it'll really be killing then. Yeah. Um, that's, uh, incredibly rude for such a great artist. But I can't, you feel a fun. I can't go in there with you because I don't know Carlos that well. Dizzy Conclave. Come on. Come on, man. Anyway, the, I guess you need to be snacking on some chili concarne as you listen to

Disney Conclave, right? Man, so we're forgetting something that happened in the last couple weeks, uh, for our weekly best of. But Kieser's, uh, live here at Open Studio. Jeffrey Kieser. Yep. He was here, um, right in this very space. Uh, and it's actually,

it's still available, still available. It's been getting a lot of notice. If you go to Facebook and just search Open Studio, you can watch the entire event. It was a live in studio concert, and it was so amazing. I mean, he's up on YouTube too, buddy. Let's put it on YouTube.

Yeah, yeah, we'll put it on YouTube for you. Andrew, let's put it up on YouTube. That's how we do it. We have an idea. It gets going. It gets happening. But we had a great time. He had his great trio here,

Bob Dubu on bass and on drums. John Weecon. John Weecon. Week on. That's right. And was killing it right here. So that would be a fun thing. did some of his original tunes and, man, a lot of music was played.

And we have some really cool angles, I think, on everybody there. Right. Yeah. And we had like the crowd a little bit too close to Jeffrey. Right. Like, so you could see our friends like Rob Endicott and Harrah Gerber. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They could have played the low octave on the piano. Well, we advertised it as you're going to be able to almost reach out and touch.

That was kind of an understanding because some of them could actually reach out and touch. I thought about putting chairs on either side of the base, like in the trio. That would be a great seat, actually. Yeah. But yeah, we kind of think. this is newsworthy too. We want you guys to check it out and let us know what you think because we're thinking about doing it some more and

it's just kind of an interesting thing, especially to watch it live as it goes down. Let us know who you'd like to see at Live at Open Studio. Yeah, yeah, except for Carlos Enriquez. Oh my goodness. Oh my good. I'm so sorry, Carlos. Good. Well, I think we covered all the news for this month. All right. See you. For this week. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We'll see you at the end of February.

Yeah, so that's this week in Jazz. Until tomorrow. Thank you.