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 give you the seven steps you need to record your first album.

Interesting.

So are we going to record an album to do this?

Are we just listing things we've already done? We're just going to list them. And it's amazing that we can shove everything into

seven steps, you know, whatever is. What a remarkable coincidence that so many, so many

topics in jazz require just seven steps. Exactly. So we thought this would be fun, maybe to inspire some of you that are

thinking about or have always thought about recording an album and haven't done it a little bit,

you know, thought it was a little bit too daunting of a endeavor to do. Adam, both you and I have

recorded quite a few albums, you know, for labels,

for ourselves, with other artists, even produced albums and engineered and stuff.

So we have a little bit of experience and we know how much it takes to do it.

So we really did want to, all jokes aside, kind of break it down into some actionable steps

and areas so that you can do it.

Because I think whether you're professional, semi-professional, amateur, student, it's a great

thing to do.

And I even hate those titles because if you're a jazz musician or just a musician, a

creative musician, and you have something to say, this is our equivalent of writing a book. You know,

and you don't have to be William Shakespeare to write a book. Believe me, I've read plenty that

aren't, you know. But you have something to say. Everybody, especially in the jazz world,

because this is a creative and provisatory, you know, music. And it's just a great thing to have.

And even in this day and age,

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