"Innervisions" — Stevie Wonder
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We’re diving back into Stevie Wonder with Innervisions, right in the heart of his classic period from 1972 to 1976. There’s something magical about this stretch of music history, and Innervisions stands as one of the greatest albums to emerge from it.
Stevie wrote every song on this album, and played every instrument on many tracks. From "Too High" to "Living For The City" to "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing", we pull apart these incredible songs to spend time with the many sides of Stevie Wonder: bass player, drummer, lyricist, and vocalist. Plus -- we're bringing back the keys for this one so Peter and Adam can pull apart all the musical nuances that make jazz musicians love Stevie Wonder so much.
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This episode references our episode on Talking Book, "Is This Stevie's Greatest Album?" Check it out here.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, Adam? |
| 0:02.4 | Wow. |
| 0:03.4 | A little E-flat minor. |
| 0:04.9 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:05.7 | In honor of Stevie Wonder, we're doing Intervisions today. |
| 0:08.2 | One of my favorites, All-Timer. |
| 0:09.8 | Yeah, it's great. |
| 0:10.5 | He's got a bunch of tunes in E-flat minor. |
| 0:12.8 | I was wondering if you had a favorite, something we could start out with. |
| 0:14.9 | Something from Intervisions. |
| 0:16.1 | Intervisions in E-flat minor? |
| 0:17.5 | Well, of course I love... Uh. |
| 0:21.6 | Yep. |
| 0:25.6 | Very superstitious. |
| 0:28.0 | Very much not on Intervision. |
| 0:28.7 | That's Talking Book. |
| 0:29.4 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:30.6 | But you got others. |
| 0:32.4 | No, maybe I was thinking of this one. |
| 0:34.0 | Ah. |
| 0:35.0 | I wish? |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah. |
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