I'm Adam Manus and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll

Hear It Podcast.

Today we're going to talk to a non-musician about his or her favorite first jazz albums.

Well, I'm only seeing one person here, and it's not a her. It's Dan Martin.

Dan Martin, co-founder of Open Studio. How do you doing? What's up, guys? Okay, now this is funny because we said favorite first jazz albums. Is that correct? I think it's correct in this case, because I think Dan has three albums that he wants to talk about. So, I mean, what we're going to do here, the whole point is that Peter and I like to talk about jazz from a very inside perspective,

but it's super important as a musician to know how your audience hears things.

Like, Dan, you don't know what scale is being played over a chord change at all, right?

I sure don't.

Yeah, but you still like jazz.

Yeah, I know it sounds good.

That's right.

Ultimately, the name of the podcast is you'll hear it, so we must put some value on how it sounds, right? I mean, we should anyway. Okay, so let's kick it off, Dan. What's first on your list? Yeah, so growing up, you know, in the 70s and 80s, we had a collection of records that is probably pretty popular back then of a Smithsonian collection, which took you from the beginning, I think like 1915, all the way to the 70s, kind of a whole repertoire of jazz, multiple artists.

And at the time, that was kind of my initial exposure, which let me kind of pick a genre or a tune and figure out what I liked and didn't like.

So for our younger listeners, this would be the equivalent of like a Spotify playlist, a curated Spotify playlist. Right, but curated by like a government, intergovernmental agency. There were many, there was like Timeline and Smithsonian. Not by some random Norwegian guy. Westinghouse. Yeah. They all have these collections, right? Right. But this was, I mean, I remember, I mean, the Smithsonian classic jazz. I think, I mean, it's incredible. That's right. And it was definitely, you took it, each side of the record was a different, like, five years, or basically, 10 years, it would take you from East St. Louis Blues all the way to the 70s experimental stuff with Cecil Taylor. And then in between, you had Thelonius, you had Duke Gallington,

and you had everything else in between.

So it was kind of cool that I could listen to different tunes that I liked,

that wasn't necessarily what the record labels wanted to put out as the greatest hits

and kind of didn't have to buy a whole artist.

That was my first entree into just kind of the jazz world.

Nice. Do you remember what you're the first jazz CD that you bought yourself?

I do. It was Winton Marsalis's Standards in Time Number 3, which was him playing with his father.

That's a great record. Yeah, that's a great record. And I actually never even bought two or one.

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