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 a minimalist jazz record collection.

Okay, so what do we mean by this? And first of all, none of our listeners could see, but you were making some really bizarre hand motion. First of all, you're talking too much for minimalism, okay? Sorry, I don't know what that was. That was my minimalist accent. Yeah, so, well, you can already tell we don't really understand minimalism, but it's a great documentary on Netflix that I watch the first five minutes of.

What, minimalism? Yeah, you haven't seen that? No, I'm not too. That's great. That's the name of it. Well, let's define kind of what we mean by a minimalist jazz record collection. Do we mean the minimal amount of records to have a collection? Yeah, seven. No, it's not going to be seven. it's going to be five. It's going to be five. That is minimal for us. It is minimal for us. It's

too below the normal. Yeah, so I think a minimal in number of records, but no it's not going to be seven it's gonna be five it's gonna be five yeah but that's minimal for us it is

minimal for us it's too below the normal yeah so i think a minimal a number of records but also

we want some form of minimalism within the recordings hopefully as well i like this a lot i like

minimalism okay you you got you started off mr five minutes a middle this document did did we just

actually define minimalism?

We joked about it, but let's define that.

Okay, sure.

So I'm thinking this is, you know, kind of less is more, some restraint playing, not a lot of instruments,

maybe even the artwork is a little bit less busy, kind of trying to strip things down to the bare

essentials, but really high quality. Quality over quantity, right? That's minimalism.

I would say so, yeah. I don't think we're talking about a specific, like the minimalist period

or like, you know, Steve Rice or anything like that. But there are cases in all eras of jazz that have

had these minimalist recordings. I think this is going to be a fairly good episode. Let's see

how it pans out. Okay. All right. So let me start out with Facing You by Keith Jarrett.

Fantastic record and minimal from the standpoint of the cover looks minimalist to me.

Maybe that's just going with the black and white.

But, you know, it's just piano.

You know, Keith Jarrett gets a little busy at times, but to me, there's no unnecessary playing on that recording.

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