You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Top 4 Non-Piano Records You Can Practice To

Episode Date: August 6, 2019

Today, Peter and Adam answer the first ever Premium SpeakPipe on 4 records pianists can comp to. Wanna send a SpeakPipe of your own? Sign up for You'll Hear It Premium to access our SpeakPipe hotline! Go to https://www.openstudiojazz.com/yhi for more info.Top 4 Non-Piano Records You Can Practice ToSonny Rollins - A Night at the Village VanguardBranford Marsalis - Trio JeepyMiles Davis - Live at the Plugged Nickel, Sorcerer, & Bags' GrooveKurt Rosenwinkel - The Next StepAnd for the rest of this week, you can still sign up for the Charter Member Special. You'll Hear It Premium and all the benefits that come along with it for only $5. Go to http://youllhearit.com/podcast/ to sign up.Tune in this Friday at 2:00 PM CDT for a very special YHI Live! Watch Peter and Adam record some episodes live from the PodCave while they take user questions in between episodes. Plus, we just might have some giveaways to offer during the livestream. Check out our YouTube channel, and don't forget to subscribe while you're there!Like those You'll Hear It shirts Peter shows off on the podcast? Want some YHI swag of your own? Take a visit to our store! Just go to https://teespring.com/stores/open-studioLet 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.

Hey, Adam, I got a random quote that has nothing to do with this episode, something you just said. Okay. Yeah, he can afford to play like he's from the slums of New Orleans. Who are you talking about? I'm not saying in public. No way. I'm Adam Annis. And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast. Daily Jazz advice. Coming at you. Coming at you. It's, what is it, Tuesday? Tuesday. What day is today? Tuesday?

Yeah, today's Tuesday. I like a Tuesday, you know? Hump day. No. No. Well, it's kind of hump day between Monday and Wednesday. Dude, it's known as the early week hump date. Okay.

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No, we love all our listeners. We love all our listeners. We just love the premium members. Just a little bit because of us. Guys, guys. Here go. Hi, Peter and Adam, Mark from Vancouver. I'm a you'll hear it podcast premium member.

Wondering if you could give your top recommendations for for recordings that are guitar and piano free. So, for example, like saxophone, bass and drums, that allow a comping instrument like a piano to play along with the recording and practice that skill. Thanks. All right. Thanks, Mark.

That's awesome. Good question, man. Awesome questions. See, I think, man, the premium member thing is good. It kind of filtered out some of the longer questions. You know, he's right to the point. To the point, it's a good question. It's a good question, very value-driven.

I mean, he's paying for that. Yeah. No, this is great. We're super excited. This is our first premium question. Yeah, it's awesome. And this is a cool thing. I actually hadn't thought about this in years, but I did it for a little while.

I remember thinking, like, oh, this would be cool to be able to practice along, I mean, many years ago. Yeah, yeah. I actually don't mind practicing with a pianist comping with me. Yeah. It gives me some insight into what's going on in the moment of that recording. Yeah, yeah, sure. But it is kind of an interesting thing to jump in their piano guitar. For sure.

So, yeah, so we, you asked, and we have a little list together. We have a list of four. Yeah. We're nervous because we're so used to list of seven, but we were asked for four, right? We used to do more lists of four. Do you remember? No. Back in the day?

No, we used to do like, it was like either seven or four, seven or four. Yeah. Anyway, I thought we'd do a throwback here for our premium members question. And so we're going to kick it off with, I think, one of not just my favorite trio, non-piano, non-gattegrat. But one of my favorite albums ever. Sonny Rollins, a ninth of the village vanguard. Yeah. Amazing record.

Wilbur Ware. Max Roach, I think is on drums. Is that right? Roy Haynes. Oh, I think it's Roy Haynes. That's right. Incredible, incredible recording. And what's so great about this for playing along.

I played along with this all the time when I was in high school. What's so great about this is all the standards. They're doing all the things you are, Sunny Moon for two, like a bunch of a night in Tunisia, like a bunch of great tunes that are, you know, essentially jam session tunes are on this record. And I think how high the moon maybe. There's a volume one and a volume two.

Volume one and volume two. It's actually Elvin Jones, that's right. Is it Elvin? Elvin Jones. Oh, my God. With a little bit of Pete LaRocca thrown in there. Wow. I didn't think it was Max Rocha Roy Haynes.

I thought it was Roy Haynes for some reason. I was thinking, yeah, yeah. No, it's Elvin. That's awesome. Yeah. I love the album cover and the, yeah, this is a great. Oh, that pink sort of. Kind of purplish.

Yeah, yeah. That's dope. The sunglasses. Yeah, this is actually a really good one too that some of the ones we were talking about maybe are not as great. I mean, look, all these are complete statements without the piano. That's the whole point. And great trio. I mean, even though we're pianist and we're biased, I used to always make a joke.

Like, I would see Joshua Redmond when he started doing, you know, trio without piano. I was like, great group. You're only missing one thing. the most important element, buddy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, no, but really, when it's done well, actually, this is such a fun thing because everybody plays differently, you know, and we see that, like, you know, as pianists,

if you lay out, which I would recommend everybody to do at the appropriate time, which is usually more often than we realize, you know, a saxophone player is going to play differently. And Sadi Raleans, like, I mean, I heard him play a solo concert one time. This must have been, like, I want to say late 80s, maybe early 90s at the, like, metropolitan. Museum. It must have been late 80s

because I was living up in New York in the dusty times. And it was like at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and he played acoustic and there was a lot of people there was like capacity

whatever it was. Incredible. And just played a solo concert and it was like so complete. It wasn't like, oh my God, where's the rhythm? It was just like music, you know? So Sunny is definitely

one of those ones that can play obviously with piano, with guitar, without, it doesn't make any difference. But there, There are some places you can kind of jump in. I remember playing around with this record a little bit, too, and have some fun with as a pianist.

What could have been had he called me on the gig? All right, number two, what do you got? Okay, so yeah, for number two, we got Branford Marcellus, Trio GP. Trio GP. Yeah, this is a fun record, and I think there is some room. I was thinking about it because there's another record,

I think it's called Bloomington Trio that's a little bit less room to practice with, you know, as a pianist. But this one, as I recall, I mean, this is like late 80s. And it's kind of cool because it's got Milton on it, who was a great bassist, great photographer. I don't know if you knew about that. I did not know about that. I actually got a chance to meet him before he passed, which was such an honor. He's on most of it.

Delbert Felix is on a few tracks. I was going to say Bob Hurst, but it's actually Delbert Felix. That's right. Jeff Watts is on drums. It's kind of a weird trio, you would think, but I think it's one of Bramford's best records anyway. And he's doing some, he does one of my favorite tunes, UMMG. In fact, that's where I learned that tune, the Billy Strayhorn, well, Duke Allington. It's actually Billy Strayhorn.

is credited to Duke Allington, and he does Nearness of You and Ornette Coleman piece. It's just a really good, like, trio kind. Like we always think of Bramford is excelling in that quartet setting, which he has, but this is great. It would, I think, be a lot of fun to practice, too. What do we have for number three? For Mr. Manus.

For number three, we have a trio of albums. We're going to do three albums for number three. I see you're adding. The list is gaining. I am adding. So we're going to do three months. Miles Davis albums. Hello. In which the pianist does not play very much at all.

Wait, are you stealing one of mine here? I'm combining ours, and I'm going to add a more modern one at the end. It's a surprise for you. Good. So Miles Davis, live at the plug nickel. Yeah. The Sorcerer. Yes.

And Baggs Groove. Yeah. So two of those albums have Herbie Hancock on them. And Herbie, at the time, even according to Herbie, didn't really know what to play. Miles said, if you don't know what to play, don't play anything. So a lot of that, Herbie's not playing much. That's right. And so you can get in there on, you know, and comp for Miles on, you know,

so what or autumn leaves or whatever on the plug nickel. And the whole, pretty much the whole sorcerer record, you're going to learn those Wayne Shorter tunes. And then Baggs Groove had Monk on it. And Miles asked Monk not to conform because he didn't like what was going on behind him. So I think it's, that's a really good trio of albums, of very famous albums that you can get in on. Now just note on the bags groove

I was just looking up to make sure I was correct on this yeah Horace Silver plays on most of it and does comp a lot Oh sorry no no that's good but on the bags groove track And there's actually alternate versions over two So you'd have a lot of good blues playing to comp behind So I think it's still definitely worth and worthwhile being on there Both the versions all the alternate versions of bags groove

Monk is basically not comping behind miles It's a great track that you can easily get in there and practice on Okay and so number four Is a more modern record This is Kurt Rosenwinkel, the next step. It's a great record. I don't know that one.

It's incredible. It's got Javago on it, which is one of his more... Dr. Javago? I think it's in reference to that, yes. Okay. By the way, I question whether or not he was a real doctor,

but we'll talk about that later. I have a whole list of guys. Dr. Sholes, Dr. J. Dr. Doolittle, definitely not a real dog. Definitely not. And definitely not Dr. Chivago. But Chivago is a real tune

and it's on this record, the next step by Kurt Rosenwinkel. Great modern compositions and guitar, no piano on most of the record, so check it out. Nice, nice. And I was just going to say about Herbie, I would be remiss not to mention that I saw him play 48 hours ago. I know, man, I'm so envious of this. But, well, don't get too envious. I heard him play for like 10 minutes and then regrettably had to leave the backstage area and go play another gig, which was, I mean, it crushed me. I almost skipped my gig. He sounded so great. It was with Christian McBride and Hillary McBride and Vinnie Caliuda. I mean, it was just, and it was like, I was back there talking to Christian right before.

I was like, what are you guys playing? He's like, no idea. Oh my gosh. Okay, I'll give a little inside baseball here. Herbie walks up, like, there's so much like electricity in there because people are, he hasn't been playing trio that much recently. Like, actually in years, I don't think. And so there was a lot of, this is Newport Jazz Festival. And there's a lot of like kind of electricity in there, you would say.

And he walks up and it's like, Christian, you want to, let's start with this. Here's a chart. if you, and I didn't know what it was, because I was kind of there, but I was sort of hovering back. And he's like, do you know this? And Christian's like, yeah, yeah, no, I think I know it. I'm cool. And they started with footprints. But it was so funny because herbie comes out of the chart for it. That's so funny. But Herbie just sat down and just wiped. And then I had to go my other gig, but I heard that they did like a dolphin dance and maiden voyage, a lot of the old classics. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So much fun. Cool. So thank you for the question.

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