7 Jazz Albums That Changed Our Lives - #9
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Peter Martin, and I'm Adam Anas. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the You'll Hear it podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | Today we're going to talk about seven jazz albums that changed our lives. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm going to kick it off if that's cool with one. |
| 0:33.7 | Yeah, only seven? |
| 0:34.8 | I know, only seven. Well, you know, we're on this seven thing and we're trying to fit into it, so let's see where it goes. Okay, number one for me is John Coltrane Crescent. It's a great album. It's a great album, and it's, you know, it's interesting because it's kind of ebbs and flows in terms of awareness. When I was 14, 15, 16 years old, there was a lot of talk about that record. It was like super available. |
| 0:55.8 | Everybody knew what it was. Now with the young ins, when I kind of mention it, sometimes they're like, oh, let me write that down. Is that on YouTube? Is that on Spotify? Which I'm always surprised. But I, you know, it was a very influential record and definitely changed my life, mainly because of McCoy Tyner. |
| 0:52.2 | I mean, you know, |
| 0:52.8 | Elvin Jones, |
| 0:53.5 | Jimmy Garrison, |
| 0:54.3 | John Coltrane, |
| 0:55.1 | incredible. |
| 0:55.8 | And the ensemble and definitely changed my life, mainly because of McCoy Tyner. I mean, you know, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison, John Coltrane, incredible. |
| 1:14.4 | And the ensemble playing, the compositions on there, I think it's an amazing album from beginning to end |
| 1:20.2 | because the pieces fit together so well. |
| 1:22.3 | It's like a complete work. |
| 1:23.9 | Absolutely. |
| 1:24.8 | But to me, it was like what really changed my life was McCoy Tyner. |
| 1:28.4 | You know, I learned his solo on a couple of tunes and in particular on Lonnie's Lament, |
| 1:32.6 | that solo is something that probably a day since then. |
| 1:36.5 | So if I was like 14 years old when I learned that, like what is that, five years ago now? |
| 1:40.5 | Something like that. |
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