From Sonata to Stank Face
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The ultimate musical showdown: jazz vs classical. We bring in conductor Josh Weilerstein from the Sticky Notes podcast to compare, contrast and find the common ground among these two very different schools of music.
From Duke Ellington's swinin' take on Peer Gynt to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, we explore the tunes and the musicians blurring the line between jazz and classical. Josh, Adam and Peter each bring their own picks to the conversation, and have the best time breaking it all down.
Nerdy? Extremely. Snobby? A little. Fun? Heck yeah!
In this episode you'll hear:
- Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major: Herbie Hancock vs the Cleveland Orchestra
- How Duke Ellington made classical standards swingin'
- Why Bartók matters to modern music
- Two very different interpretations of Rhapsody In Blue
- Brubeck’s Blue Rondo à la Turk: no improv, still loose
- Miles Davis and Gil Evans doing Adagio
Check out Josh’s insightful dives into the classical canon on Sticky Notes podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Uh, excuse me, Peter. |
| 0:06.1 | What's up, man? |
| 0:06.9 | Yeah, uh, I've heard that jazz musicians can have this affliction called stank face. |
| 0:11.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:12.0 | Could you demonstrate that for the people, please? |
| 0:14.0 | Well, it just has to be natural, but it's kind of... |
| 0:18.5 | Oh, yeah, I get it. Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:22.9 | Uh. Sometimes we say, uh, too. |
| 0:25.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.4 | But, I mean, classical players happen as well, right? |
| 0:28.9 | Yeah, I mean, sometimes you'll see, like... |
| 0:31.6 | Oh! |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah! It's a little over the top, but pretty good. |
| 0:57.0 | Let's combine the two maybe. The The I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm The |
| 1:30.3 | The He's got it. |
| 1:47.0 | He got the affliction. |
| 1:52.0 | He got the affliction. I'm Adam Manus. |
| 2:10.9 | And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast. |
| 2:13.5 | Music, Explored. |
| 2:14.7 | Explored, brought today by Open Studio. |
| 2:16.8 | Go to Open StudioJas.com for, oh, your jazz lesson needs. Yes. Peter. Yes, sir. We have a special guest on the show today. I realize that. I'm feeling like I'm not dressed appropriately enough, but I see him dress similarly, so I'm excited. What's up, Josh? Hey, good to be here. From our favorite classical music podcast, Sticky Notes. The infamous. Josh, Wilerstein is here. Josh, thank you for being here. We love your show so much, and we're so honored to have you on our show and encourage all of our listeners to go check out Sticky Notes if you're interested in classical music at all. Absolutely. Thanks so much for having me. I'm very intimidated to be on a jazz podcast. So I think, I hope it goes okay. |
| 2:34.8 | Well, or interested in classical music at all. Absolutely. Thanks so much for having me. I'm very intimidated to be on a jazz podcast. |
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