I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear

podcast. Daily jazz advice coming at you. Coming at you cheerfully with energy. Yeah. With, we got a speak pipe, which is for those who don't know what a speak pipe is, that is when people leave us a voice memo. Also known as a voicemail. You've been able to refer to it as. Yeah, speak pipe. We've got a couple new speak pipes. Awesome. We're just going to go through one today. You're very chipper over there. I see you've been to refer to it as yeah speak pipe we got a couple new speak pipes awesome we're just going to go through one today you're very chipper over there i see you've got that iced coffee in your hands that you keep saying you're going to share or bring in it still hasn't happened this is it seems like a good time to bring that up right you know that as summer is going on i've invested in larger and larger iced coffee travel mugs to take with me and i I'm getting more and more jacked up. You are. You're investing in your generosity and heart has not increased with the same size that your mug has, though, in terms of sharing with your friend here, but that's okay. Sorry, I'll hear it. I'll bring something in for you. Just so our listeners, though, whenever you hear this noise,

that means I'm about to take a... But you hear that in there.

That's my real coffee brewing.

Oh, yeah.

See, you have better coffee than me. Although this is St. Louis' own sump coffee. I wouldn't know because I haven't gotten to taste your cold. I'll bring something in tomorrow, man. I promise. I'll bring some in tomorrow. Yet you've tasted my coffee.

Anyway, I'm not bitter like your coffee.

Oh, come on.

Okay, so let's listen to the question.

I think this is from our friend Mark up in Vancouver, right? He said, Michael. Anyway, I'm not bitter like your coffee. Oh, come on.

Okay, so let's listen to the question.

I think this is from our friend Mark up in Vancouver, right?

Yep.

Hello, Peter and Adam.

It's Mark in Vancouver.

If you wanted to give somebody a quick overview of the different genres of jazz,

what song would you choose to represent each genre? Okay, that's a great question, Mark. Wow, this is going to be a fun kind of challenging thing to do.

I don't know, where should we start?

Why don't we go chronologically?

I mean, this, you know, the genres within jazz are always a little bit somewhat arbitrary, but maybe we could try to hit the big ones that are not in dispute at least. Yeah, that sounds good. I mean, if we start with early jazz, I think the song that kind of defines not just early jazz, but maybe jazz would have to be West End Blues, right? That's great. It's exactly what I was thinking, so we're in sync so far. That kind of defines the whole first part of the music and the potential of what it could become to me. Yeah, and it's the, so there's, of course, Louis Armstrong, his solo on West End Blues, the iconic, the great Louis Armstrong. Yeah, that's amazing. And what's so cool about that solo, too, is you could probably plug it into a, you could plug that solo into a modern rhythm section. It would sound pretty awesome. It would. It would. And then on that track, I think you get really the feel, although that was a very forward-thinking, kind of revolutionary type of solo, especially when you look at the trajectory that jazz took afterwards. And there was a certain amount of foreshadowing.

Well, it was foreshadowing because it became so influential on certainly trumpet players,

but beyond that, just in terms of, you know, really the possibilities of how the improvisatory solo could,

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