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

Today we're going to give you seven non-jazz albums for jazz heads.

Jazz heads, is that like a, what is that kind of, some kind of, like, doll or something the kids are playing with you? Like a jazz head, was that?

Yeah, I'm a talking bot, bobblehead doll.

Like there's Nat King Cole and this is going on.

That's right. Well, these are like, you know, hey, I'm a jazz guy, and I don't listen to non- jazz albums. No, this is cool. And I'm looking here at our list, and these are very like standard things that I think all jazz musicians could get a lot out of.

Yeah. And I mean, you know, I think that you'll find that these are records that a lot of jazz musicians that we know really good players and stuff are already certainly hip to, but there's probably some maybe that you're not, and I'd love to hear from you guys, because I'm always, you know, thinking about this. Like, I've always listened to music.

It's amazing. Like, throughout my life, I've never actually predominantly listened to jazz. Yeah, me neither. I mean, I have certainly during times and, like, learning souls, and I love jazz. And, I mean, if I could only listen to one thing, it probably would be that. Totally. But I've always been kind of just, like, listening to great recordings. things. And I, because I was lucky I came up at that you know

the end of this sort of LP period just a little bit I caught some of that and then early

CDs I did do a lot of like full document listening kind of things and so you kind of get into just

the art form it's almost like do I like abstract painting or you know realist painting or African or Asian paint? I mean, they're all within the pain world, but they're so different. Like, I just kind of like stuff within that whole recording, you know, an album and what you can do with that classical jazz, R&B, hip hop. I mean, so many great things. I'm totally on board with you. And I think one of the great things about playing jazz is that it's so malleable and anymore, it's so open that you can incorporate lots of different elements from other styles of music, from rock and R&B and classical and all this stuff, into jazz. And it's totally natural. I mean, the people who set up, the geniuses who set up this form that we play, were so ahead of their time as far as, like, you know, setting up a form that is fun to throw just about anything at, and it sticks. And it's fun to play. Right, right. So, yeah, what we have here is, so there's seven albums that I think do have, I think on all these, there's some kind of jazz connection. I mean, none of them were really jazz records, although it doesn't really matter what you call. They're all great records in our opinion. Definitely. So first I'm going to start with Steely Dan Asia. Great record. Yeah. And so this one, you know, is, this is cheating a little bit because every like insider jazz. And even like- It's almost a jazz record. It's almost a jazz record. It's like Wayne Shorter's, you know, has a very prominent role in it. There's even like, you know, a tune that's not really a blues, but called a blue, you know, Deacon Blues. So it's got some fairly overt references. But I mean, it's really a high-level, you know, 70s pop album, I guess, or whatever it is.

I mean, it's one of the greatest albums in the 70s, in my opinion. Yeah, I mean, the sound

on us amazing. I think is that Steve Gag. Yeah. I mean, some of the greatest so-called

session play, but just some of the greatest musicians that play studio musicians. It's unbelievable.

Black Cow, Asia itself, you know, Deacon Blues, unbelievable,

and definitely easily crossed over into jazz and so much you can pull out. I mean, just the chord

changes on Black Cow. You know what I mean? Those are like slash chords and it might as well be

a Pat Mathini tune. You know what I mean? Yeah. Great stuff there. All right.

So our second album is Marvin Gay's What's Going On?

This is absolutely Marvin Gay's masterpiece.

This is another one of the best albums of the 1970s.

I think it was 19...

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