You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - This Week in Jazz - #50

Episode Date: November 2, 2018

Hats, Cats, and Christian McBride - What else is on the docket for this week's You'll Hear It episode of "This Week in Jazz?" Listen to find out! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey, Adam. What's up? Do you like hats? I indeed love hats. Do you like news? I do like news. And do you like Christian McBride? These are all things that I love. I got some breaking news for you, buddy.

I'm Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast. Daily Jazz Advice and weekly, well, maybe biweekly, jazz news coming at you. Yeah, it's not weekly at this point. But hopefully it will be. There's just not a lot of jazz news. No.

Well, there's a lot of jazz news. But once you take out jazz hands, news and Honda Jazz News and Utah Jazz News, it gets a little slimmer. Honestly, I wish our listeners could just, like, sit in on a typical jam session between about three or four jazz musicians because you'd get a lot of firsthand jazz news in a gossipy kind of way. But we're not dealing with that right now. This is not daily jazz gossip coming at you.

This is true news. All right, so what are we starting with in this week of Jazz News? We're starting with an article from Jazz Is magazine. Shout out to Jazz Is. Yeah. Great publication. And this is an article called. Women and Jazz exhibition opens in London.

This sounds very, very cool. I wish I was going to be in London this fall and early winter. So this opened on October 16th. It's at the Barbiccan Library in London. It's the Barbican. Barbican. I said Barbican Library. The Barbican Library in London.

And the exhibition is called Women and Jazz, a celebration of the past, present, and future. runs through December 31st. It looks awesome. The exhibition draws on resources from the National Jazz Archive, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. You know, more needs to be done like this.

We always talk about this here on the You'll hear it podcast that women are just underrepresented. I mean, ironic coming from a podcast of just two dudes sitting here. Yeah, but no, it's, and I love when things, and I'm sure it's at the barbican, it's going to be well done and stuff.

It's a great cultural institution and landmark in London. And I mean, just think if you were, you know, a young girl, young child, they got a chance to go see this and how that can inspire you. Because the thing is, we have great, wonderful female jazz musicians. We do not celebrate them enough. And it's not like we have to fabricate their being. I mean, we need more.

But how do we get more without celebrating the ones that we have, showing the history and the lineage and building upon that? So it's wonderful to hear. So this is what we call positive news. Absolutely. That's good. cool. All right. Next, this one kind of caught my eye, and it's actually on a site that I'd never seen before called You Discover Music with the spelling of you as you, of course, the letter you. John Coltrane's 1963 Masters gathered on New Directions set. Now, this is recordings from 1963 and a 3D, 3 CD set due for release on November 16th. New Directions on Impulse.

And stuff from Coltrane's recordings during the year from the hour. both directions at once, the lost album, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Now this is, I'm super interested in here if there's tracks that I haven't heard there because I'd heard they're worse that they were sitting on some stuff. Really? So I'm wondering if that's what's going to be or if it's just rehab stuff. How timeless is that record? I know, and there's been some great stuff coming out of Train.

And you know, normally when this much time has gone from an artist sort of, you know, I mean, John Coltrane died in 1967, I believe. So I mean, we're talking what going on 50, no, more than 50 years. And usually like all the good stuff, if anything is found, it's, it's, you know, It's kind of like the sound isn't great, but we've having some wonderful stuff that's undiscovered coming out, so I'm super excited about this.

That's great. I'm gonna piggyback on this Coltrane story. Okay. Another article here in Jazz is, which is John and Alice Coltrane home named a National Treasure by the National Trust and Historic Preservation. That's very, very cool.

And any of these greats of the music, any of their life that we can preserve, any of the history that we can preserve so that we can pass that on to younger generations, You know, you and I, we were not alive when Coltrane was alive, but we're so close to it and know people, you know, who knew him and played with him and around that era that we kind of get the benefit of this just, you know, once removed generation. Yeah. But our kids, now it's very much removed. So I think things like this are very, very important.

Right, right. And I don't know about your kids. My love kids love learning about jazz and hearing about jazz. It's all they want to talk about. Yeah, because they aren't exposed to it enough. You know, they're talking about doing the same thing to Miles Davis's house here in East St. Louis. Yeah. They've been talking about it for years.

They've been talking about it a few years. I think it's been kind of a struggle to get it actually going. But, man, here's to hoping that they do, because that's another treasure. Oh, yeah. At least for our local community here in St. Louis that we need to have preserved. Man, once they do that, you're going to see people from all around the world coming in. Totally. It would be like a tourist thing.

I mean, the awareness and interest in that kind of stuff is amazing. Totally. Okay. Now I'm going to move to one of our, I think he's one of our favorites. subject. So he's made occasional appearances on the You'll Hear a podcast, our friend Robert Glasper. And this is an article in another publication that I wasn't familiar with called rollingout.com, rolling out.com. And the title is, and this is not as much, well, it's news, but it's more of an interview. So I guess that's newsworthy. Robert Glasper on common, fusing jazz and rap and honoring

Miles Davis. So that's why I kind of threw it in there since you mentioned Miles at the end. We're that spontaneous here at the You'll Hear a podcast. But it starts out, Robert Glass. As a way of telling engaging stories through music and with punchlines. In fact, if he did not stand as arguably the most accomplished parents of his generation, it's not overstated, but no. No, of course, great. Glasper could probably find success as a stand-up comedian. That's true.

So this is a good article because, you know, those of you that ever talk to are seeing Robert Glasper at a lot of his gigs, you only get part of it. He's one of the funniest guys, you know, like, I mean, he really could be a comedian. Yeah, no, I was at the new school at the same time as Glasper. Oh, right. I mean, he was almost never there because he was in Betty Carter's band at the time. And the new school at that time was very lax about like, yeah, sure, just go ahead. But you always knew when he was in the building because you'd just be like coming out of your practice room to get a drink water and you just hear uproarious laughter from the commons area. Yeah, yeah.

And you just knew Glasper was in the house making everybody lose it. Yeah, yeah. And I guess that's, I don't know if they talk about, I don't think they talk about this. Oh, no, they do mention in the article. He's just coming on. Actually, it's still going on. He's doing like a three-week residency at the Blue Note in New York. And he's got like all different groups every couple of days.

I've heard it's been awesome. Yeah, that's great. That's very cool. And I think it's great that he's changing it up a lot. Because I remember doing a couple times like a three-week run at that Blue Note in New York with Chris Bodie. And it was cool. And it was like packed every night. It was amazing that you could do a club around like old school that many days.

But I mean, it was the same band every night, pretty much the same set. Yeah. Which was cool. But after like day 19, you're like, whoa. But this, you know, Glasper's really changing it up, which is cool. Tired of pointless generic YouTube. instructional videos. Are you looking to learn jazz from some of today's best players?

I would say yes to both of those. That's obvious, right? Yeah, so what does one do? Well, one could go to Open Studio. That's right, Open Studio, where you'll find pros who are great players and teachers ready to guide you along your jazz journey. That's right. Courses on piano, guitar, drums, bass.

Yep. And not just anybody. These are like some of the top people in jazz who are teaching us. Christian McBride, Diane Reeves. We're going to drop a few names here. Gregory Hutchinson. But I think the main thing is, yes, we have the lessons, we have the instruction. But what we want to do is kind of help you to unlock the secrets of jazz, how to get to the vibe.

That's what our concept is here, is those things that have been held back for years. And now we're laying it all out there for you. That's right. So join us at openstudio network.com. Open Studio, Jazz Lessons from Jazz Legends. Anyway, so going from that to another friend of the show will end with this very lighthearted, entertaining story about a friend of the show, Christian McBride. Yeah. So, you know, we always talk about how Christian McBride really is a tastemaker in this industry in the jazz genre.

And no more is that represented when he has a story about where he gets his hats in the New York Post. Like, you know. New York Post, you know. Is this in the gossip column? No, it's an entertainment. They have a whole story about Christian McBride's hats. You know, it's like, you know, Rupert Murdoch calls New York office, tells them find out about hats from Christian McBride right away. Yeah, so the name of the article is where jazz great Christian McBride gets his legendary hats.

I like Christian's hats, but I never considered them legendary legendary. Oh, don't know that shady hat, huh? No, no, no, no, no shade at all. I'm just saying, I mean, this, you know, he's a legendary bass player for sure. Hats are cool. Right. So if you're in the know, if you want to know where Christian gets his hats, he goes to a place in Harlem called Flameke.

Keepers Hat Club, and he also goes down to Gurin Brothers on Bleaker Street. But I can add one little part. I don't mean to one up the legendary New York Post, but I have been with Chris McBride on the road, and he's also been known to pick up hats at random little shops and airports. That's right. Hey, if a hat speaks to you, you know, you got to. But I think what people are going to find, a lot of times articles are like this when it's like, you know, you'll see an article.

It's like three secrets that, you know, three secret things Oprah Winfrey accomplishes before, 5 a.m. To make you a billionaire. Usually there's a little more to the story than just replicate it. Christian's really good at spotting hats that look good on him. Totally. So like, just because you go to these stores and they're probably great and have a good selection, you still got to figure out or maybe there's somebody there that can help

figure it out. But Christian, I remember an airport pick one up. He's like, man, it looks like a good cap and kind of grabbed it, put it on. Yeah, you know. By the way, ice baths. That's the answer. To Oprah Winfrey's secret that she does. Before 5 a.m.

She does in 3. Iceed milk bath every morning at 5 a.m. Skimmed, skimmed, skimmed cat milk. Well, until next time. You'll hear it.