I'm Adam Manus.

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Daily Jazz Advice coming at you.

That's right, man. I'm liking how this episode is shaping up. I like this title. And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast. Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. That's right, man.

I'm liking how this episode is shaping up.

I like this title.

It's our seven favorite unsung heroes of jazz. So these are non-singers. I don't think there's a singer in the bunch, actually. Because they're unsung. They're unsung. No, I think the idea with this is people that maybe aren't household names even in the

jazz community, but have contributed hugely to jazz and pushing it forward, both musically

and in business and just getting it out there to the wired world. Yeah, I love it. And I think

we're about half and half, something like that, musicians, non-musicians, which is great because

this music, I mean, of course the musicians are so important, but there are these other great characters that have been involved that have done wonderful things, promoting the music and bringing it along. And I'm already thinking of a bunch that we're apologizing. We should apologize in advance for leaving off a bunch of great, unsung, important people, especially non-musicians that I'm thinking of now. Yeah, we can actually do a whole non-musician list. We could actually do like a whole record executive list. We could do a whole club owner list. I mean, there's a ton of people that have really given. If we only, we had an outlet in a channel to do all these things on. Like a daily podcast. I don't know. Maybe, maybe someday in the future. Sorry, my chair is still

squeaking. I actually switched it out from yesterday's, but it's, this is a different, is it me? It's the way you're sitting. You're sitting loudly. I'm, because I'm moving a, I mean, it's a, okay, my bad. I think my chair has a sweet too, but you never hear it. No, you're, you're totally stationary. Totally bland and stationary.

You just stay put.

Okay. And I'm going to start with number one, which is

Kenny Clark. Great drummer. I think unsung hero, because he invented the ride symbol pattern that we all know and love today, the spangeling. And we talked about that yesterday, how important that is for the jazz sound, right? It's an incredibly important sound. I feel like now I'm going to challenge you a little bit. I hate to challenge you on number one, but is he really unsung? Well, maybe beyond, and definitely not among jazz drummers. He sung among jazz drummers. I wonder, though, I mean, I don't hear a lot of chatter about him outside of jazz drummers. Interesting.

I mean, he's one of my favorite drummers of all time. I think he swings. He's got that straight kind of swing. Yeah. Which is crazy because he invented that sort of pattern on the ridesville, but it's different than anybody else's. I always hear that direct lineage from him to Max Roach with the ride simple, you know. Yeah. But I think could get more accolades than he gets personally.

Right.

Right.

Okay.

Number two. With the ride, you know. But I think could get more accolades than he gets personally.

Right.

Okay.

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