This is Adam Manus.

And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.

Daily jazz advice coming at you.

Today we're going to answer one of our listeners' questions about jazz artists you wish you could have played with with bonus points for lesser known players. So this is like a hipster list. A hipster list. And we're getting points from our listener. Bonus points. I appreciate that. This is great. Okay, I'm ready. Now, this is really cool because, I mean, jazz is a communal music. Jazz music jazz is I think it's wonderful when you play

we both gotten the chance to play with a lot of different players and it's always inspiring

and it's always fun you know to think about I think because we've we've all listened to so many

great artists especially ones that perhaps even passed away before we started playing or were even born and we kind of fantasized about what it would have been like to play with them. So I'm really been looking forward to this one. The bonus points for lesser known players, why don't you start out and see if you can nail that one from the beginning? All right. So, I mean, he's not lesser, lesser known, but someone that I'd really love to play with, and I often do play with in my practice and in my dreams, is the great drummer for Nell Fornier. Yes. From Amad Jamal's famous trio. New Orleans Zone. New Orleans Zone. I mean, there's a sound and a feel to his playing that, I don't know, I just, I really wish I could get in there and live in that pocket for a while. You know what I mean? I mean, I do it all the time when I play along with those records. But, yeah, that's someone that would be a kind of dream come true kind of thing for me. That's great. So I'm going to go with another, try to get some bonus points for another lesser-known player, and that would be John Coltrane. Sorry um no i'm going the other way john coltrane was somebody that i listened to um you know in terms

of thinking about what it would be like to play with and probably more than anybody when i was growing up

i actually don't listen to his recordings as much anymore um although i go into phases where i listen to it

and whenever I do,

it's a very intense thing. And I think, you know, I mean, we can talk about great players today

in the past, in the future. There's many different types, but I think that John Coltrane is somebody

that kind of sits above others in terms of intensity of his music. And so that was always a really interesting thing for me. It was like, what would it be like to play with him? Now, he died in 1967. I was born in 1970, so I'd never had any illusions that I was going to actually play with him. But somehow on the back of my mind, I could always sort of picture it. I was sort of the weak link in the quartet the way I pictured it, but I was in there.

I was like the seventh sub for McCoy.

And, but I, no, I mean, I could, I really could see myself sort of entering into that realm

of intensity with Elvin Jones, John Coltrane. And that's the thing, playing with John Coltrane,

it's kind of like I was thinking about a specific period with that most powerful quartet that he had. You know, Jimmy Garrison, John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, and me. Yeah, that'd be very fun. I mean, it just, that would have been great. And, I mean, I listened to it enough that I feel like I could have at least made the gig, you know?

Yeah, absolutely.

For my second choice, I'm going to go with the great bassist, Charles Mingus.

I mean, I'm so steeped in his, his, you know, recordings.

And I just love his compositions.

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