I'm Peter Martin, and I'm Adam Manus. Welcome to the You'll Hear It podcast.

Today we're going to give you five tools that will help you learn jazz.

Well, like hammers and nails and saws and whatnot.

Exactly.

Oh.

Well, sort of. And actually, I said we're going to give you five whatnot. Exactly. Oh. Well, sort of.

And actually, I said we're going to give you five tools. We're going to talk about five tools. We're not going to give them to. You've got to go out and acquire them yourselves. But some of these I think you'll have already. So maybe it'll be a little bit of a focus for you and for us on great tools. because it's fun to like be involved with something and then to find, you know, just like, you know, I guess we could do some woodworking with just our hands and stuff, but isn't it better when you got a nice, finely crafted and sharpened tool?

Oh, I don't know, man. I don't do any of that stuff.

Okay, yeah, exactly. Good stuff. Okay, so let's start out. The number one tool that'll help you learn how to play jazz, I believe, is great jazz albums.

Now, if you're under the age of, what, 38 or so, you might be like, what is an album? Oh, no, if you're under the age of 38, but over the age of 17, you're right, man. The kids are into the albums again. That's right.

So by albums, what I really mean is a complete recording. So they used to come on LPs and then on CDs and then in streaming and now there's many ways to get them. But the concept, I think, is the same for all of them. It's like thinking about a record like John Coltrane's Crescent or Ella Fitzgerald Live in Rome,

you know, any kind of recording. like thinking about a record like John Coltrane's Crescent or Ella Fitzgerald Live in Rome,

you know, any kind of recording as a complete performance. And I think that there's so much we can

get from just listening to one track, one solo, sometimes even one phrase. But if you use the tool

of a complete recording, you can learn how to put a set together, how to segue between tunes, how to create a specific kind of vibe with a kind of tune, and then shift to something else.

All the tools that we actually need to have to learn jazz. So it really gives you everything within that.

And I think it's just important to think about the concept of a whole recording,

because recordings used to be made, and really still are, as sort of this between 35 and 67

minute statement, musical statement, of tunes and put together in a way by the artist and the

producer and everything that would

really satisfy somebody that sits and listens to the whole thing.

So now, am I saying that you have to listen to entire recordings all the time?

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