I'm Peter Martin, and I'm Adam Anas.

Welcome to the You'll Hear it podcast.

Today, we're going to tell you how to keep from getting overwhelmed with too much jazz information.

What do you think, Adam?

Too much jazz information?

Is that possible?

Is that legal? I take on so much jazz information every day

well maybe the key is to making sure that we are taking on the right jazz information you know

and then we don't have to worry as much about getting overwhelmed with too much there's never too

much of a good thing but i think that there is the pacing of it and there is the thing. We're living in an age now where there's just an overload of all kinds of information, so I think we need to regulate that. We need to, and we can, with self-discipline, you know, control how much information we have coming in. The tricky part is with jazz is there's so much great music, there's so many

great recordings, there's so many great things going on now, live and being streamed and

on people's websites and on Facebook. I mean, this is some great, this is a golden age for

jazz information for sure. So, but we have to have the discipline to limit what we have coming in.

So one way I can think of that I like

to do is just limit myself to what I'm actually working on. So when I'm working on something,

if it's, say, learning a solo or learning a tune or maybe doing an arrangement or a composition,

I'll only listen to that one recording. I won't listen to anything else. I mean, maybe I'll have the news on or something at some point, but in terms of music, I kind of limit myself to just hearing that for a period. And that's hard to do, but it's definitely possible. So like, even if you're, say, looking at one YouTube video and that's what you're listening to, there's always that little thing on the side where it's like

you know related video and stuff so the tendency is to click over there you just need to stay focused

so whatever you need to do if that's to get an old school iPod and only load one song on and

put yourself out and on a desert island then that's what you have to do most of those can kind of

hit something between that and just sort of information overload but it's just limiting and then that's what you have to do. Most of those can kind of hit something between that and just sort of information overload. But it's just limiting. And then, you know, what goes along with that

is really knowing that if you learn something deeply, some jazz information, and we're really

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