7 Best Players of Odd Instruments - #114

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🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today, Peter and Adam discuss some great jazz musicians who like to play some odd instruments. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at Podcast.
0:32.5	Today we're going to talk about the seven best weird instrument players.
0:33.8	Wait, what?
0:37.1	There had to have been a better way for us to phrase this. Yeah, we shouldn't take more time to title this episode. What are you talking about? The seven best weird instrument players. Yeah, now we're not talking about weird people that play instruments. We're talking about people who play weird instruments. So how should we say that then? No, I guess this makes sense. Seven best players of weird. Ooh, that's better. The seven best players.
0:55.9	Why did we think of that? Okay. Seven best players of weird instruments. That's better. So, but you get the gist of where we're going here, right? Yeah, yeah, I think so. So these are, you know, maybe famous players and occasionally they step into playing some crazy weird instruments. Yeah, because I don't know if any of these are going to be their, that's their exclusive instrument, because that would be weird.
0:54.6	That would be weird. Then they're just weird people. Yeah. Which, now that I'm looking at this list, about half of them are. No, okay, so we're going to start with Steve Choray. And he is, you know, of course, an amazing trombonist for years.
1:27.7	I first heard Steve Torey in like the early 80s, mid-80s in New York at the village vanguard.
1:34.8	I'll never forget this game with Woody Shaw, who we should have mentioned yesterday in our trumpet episode.
1:40.0	But we said we left plenty off.
1:42.5	Steve Tarray was with Woody Shaw and great trombones.
1:46.5	And I remember he came in after a trombone solo, Woody solo, and then he came back with
1:51.7	something else in his mouth that was not a trombone.
1:54.1	It was a giant seashell.
1:56.4	That's odd.
1:57.4	It was odd.
1:58.2	Well, we're weird.
1:59.2	Oh, maybe we should change the seven best players of odd instruments. Well, this is a work in progress. Sorry, whatever you see this title as, just know that that's what we eventually landed on. We learned. It takes us well. Yeah, so it was odd, but it sounded really good. I mean, it was, they worked it into the thing. Muldgru Miller was playing piano, and I mean, I couldn't imagine it being pulled off any better.
2:19.8	I know he's done it quite a bit over the years
2:21.6	and really gets different sizes and stuff
2:24.4	and knows how to use them.
2:26.0	So way to go, Steve.
2:27.6	That's awesome.
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