Hey, Adam, are you back yet?

I don't see you.

I see an empty chair.

Where you at, buddy?

I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to The You'll Hear It podcast daily jazz advice coming at you.

Adam is still on vacation.

He's on an extended trip to Disney World.

Must be nice.

Start the year out in a little sun in Florida with your family,

but we're very happy for him a well-deserved break. So I'm holding it down this week. We have some fun the last few days over at the piano. We're back in the pod cave. I'm here with our producer, Andrew, and we're having a good time. And today, we're going to start out with, start out. Well, we're already into 2019, but it feels like we're still at the beginning of the year. And, you know, we love the controversies here at the You'll Hearer podcast. We do not shy away from controversies, whether Adams here or not. So I want to be clear on that one. So today, we're going to cover seven jazz controversies. And I'm going to actually just sort of tell you, you know, my feelings on each one of these.

We actually just recorded this episode, but our quality control is so high here at the You'll Hear podcast that we are re-recording it because we didn't like the way the first one came out.

I actually gave like a devil's advocate both viewpoints for each of these controversies. And it was just kind of

silly because I know how I feel about each of these. So we're going to get more to the point.

We're coming at you with the truth. That's how we do it. So we got seven jazz controversies.

And you know, why are there so many controversies in jazz? Why is jazz so controversial? I don't know. Maybe it's not, but it feels like it is. And I think it comes down to like one of those things where anything that people are passionate about, you know, both as listeners and lifestyle and players and everything, if you're passionate about something, it's going to be controversial. There's things that are going to come up and people are going to want to argue about it i don't think it's necessarily a bad thing it means people care

it means people love this i mean you know are there um accounting controversies yeah i guess there are

too people people love that i don't know are there controversies about um what kind of water i'm

drinking this year no there or not because i'm enjoying sparkling water from whole Foods. Thank you very much. Orange. I don't know why I gave him a plug, but I did. So anyway, let's get right into these. We got seven jazz controversies handpicked by yours truly. Adam had nothing to do with this. Let's be clear on that. Number one, you got to know the history. Okay, this is one I've been hearing forever,

and I think it's kind of controversial because it's so people take this to the extreme. It's just

like if you don't know the entire history of jazz piano, you can't be a great jazz pianist.

If you don't, if you can't, this is taking it to the extreme. Like if you're not an expert

ragtime player, there's no way you can be a great modern jazz piano player because the music, the lineage of jazz piano started with ragtime. And first of all, that's not even true. It started before ragtime. But even if that's a place of departure. So I don't believe in this. And the main reason is because I know a lot of really good

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