I'm Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear at Podcast. Today we're going to talk about

seven of our favorite piano solos. And are we going to do seven each or we're going to do seven

total? Oh, seven each would be awesome, but I don't think people have enough time on their commute to work

that's right. 14 different piano solos. Short attention span podcast listeners. That's how we do it.

All right. We're going to start out with, and look, this is, this goes beyond highly subjective.

This should be titled seven highly subjective favorite piano solos that we thought of in the last

10 minutes. Exactly. But, but I mean, favorite. that's that's always fun so i'm gonna go with number one uh art tatum willow weep for me you're gonna go out on a limb there i'm gonna go out on a limb with that sad solo no but i'll tell you why it's my favorite i don't even know that it's the greatest although it who cares maybe it is but it's from a record called Piano Starts Here, or that's the recording that I heard, the LP that I heard.

Right, there's like six different versions. And I think it's probably was a re-released, just, I'm

thinking about the LP that my father had, and he used to like that record a lot. It was kind

of always in our house, but when I started getting into jazz and listen to that, that particular

track really...

That introduction just was like magical to me, like the modernness of it.

And then the way he goes through the whole tune, I love it.

So that's probably my favorite piano solo solo ever. Probably the greatest jazz pianists of all time, would you say, Art Tatum? I mean, how can you... He's aight. He's aight. He's aight. So I'm going to go with, I'm going to kick my list off with pure pyrotechnics of Oscar Peterson playing How High the Moon on the Live at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival.

This is with the Oscar Peterson trio of Ray Brown and Herb Ellis on guitar.

This is an unbelievable solo.

He goes into double time with block chords at one point, and I remember the first time I heard it I thought

well that's just not physically possible to do and the entire time even when he's double timing

these thick block chords he makes it swing so hard that it's hard not to get super amped every time

I mean I've heard it a million times I still get amped every time I listen to it.

One of my all-time favorite piano solos. I think that's a key for any kind of like favorite solo.

It's something that you hear it yesterday, today, tomorrow, till the day you die. Every time it's like,

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