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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Kenny Kirkland "Phryzzinian Man" - #18

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today, Peter and Adam break down Kenny Kirklands powerhouse solo on Wynton Marsalis' "Phryzzinian Man". See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

You know what that sounds like that sounds, Peter.

0:16.2

I sure do.

0:17.9

It means it's solo analysis Wednesday.

0:20.4

I'm Adam Annis.

0:21.2

And I'm Peter Martin.

0:22.0

And you're listening to The You'll Hear It Podcast.

0:25.5

Daily Jazz Advice and solo analysis once a week coming at you.

0:29.4

I love the Wednesday solo analysis, man.

0:31.7

Man, I'm all about the Wednesday.

0:33.1

So cool.

0:33.7

Yeah.

0:34.0

Especially when it's, well, they've all been great souls.

0:36.9

So I remember this from our blindfold test a couple weeks ago. This is Phryzinian man. Yes. From Witton Marcellus's black coats from the underground. But we're not going to analyze Winton solo. No. We're going to analyze Kenny Kirkland. Yes, we are. Nice. So yeah, this is, you know, this is one of my favorite Kenny Kirkland solos, one of my favorite piano solos really heard it, as I've said before, at a super pivotal time.

1:05.1

But I think it's a great representation of the time of Kenny Kirkland's style of any time.

1:13.7

And I'm just excited to dive into it. It's, you know, I always think a great solo for you and for hopefully anyone that

1:19.8

would enjoy it is about like, it's like a great movie or a great meal. You can have it over

1:25.1

and over again, it doesn't go bad. It's not like the

1:27.8

pod cave where mold is probably growing. It's just fresh as it was in 1985. It's got that timeless quality. But the main thing I think is just our personal connection with it. Like, do you still get just excited or is it like, man, I've heard it. I know what's going to. I mean, it's like, You know what's going to happen and it's still good.

1:25.0

But sometimes solos get deeper as you progress through your life.

1:28.7

Absolutely.

1:29.3

There's solos that I've had in my life for 25 years that the more I understand about the inner workings in the music, the more I'm like, oh man, that's heavier than I thought. And I thought it was great before, you you know it's like an endless treasure trove and I

2:01.1

think too there there's even solos that maybe we weren't ready for like you ain't ready for that

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