Solo Analysis: "No Greater Love" - Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing - #3

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🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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For this week's Solo Analysis Wednesday, Peter and Adam take a listener request and analyze Ahmad Jamal's solo on "No Greater Love" from Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	I'm Adam Menace.
0:19.0	And I'm Peter Martin.
0:20.0	And you are listening to the Wednesday edition of the You'll Hear at podcast.
0:23.5	Daily Jazz Advice and solo analysis and maybe a little arrangement analysis coming at you.
0:28.8	There's so much analysis to be had with this track.
0:31.7	It is Wednesday.
0:33.0	That music means that it is solo analysis Wednesday.
0:35.4	We have a request here that we're fulfilling for a solo analysis. This is a little bit of a, we're doing a double-edged sword here where we're answering a user's email. And then we're also doing solo analysis Wednesday. So we're using a double-edged sword in service of one of our listeners, not on one of our listeners, right? No. Okay, good.
0:54.3	You got me scared there.
0:55.0	We would never do that.
0:55.7	We would never stab a listener.
0:53.4	This is... Stab him with information. This is Amajemal, live of the Pershing album, and the track is There is No Great Love, of course. I just want to ask you, I noticed you said live at the Pershing, because I always think it's Pershing. I think Pershing is a street here in St. Louis, and that's where you get it confused.
0:56.4	But why would it be, it can be several things.
1:11.5	The Pershing. I think Pershing is a street here in St. Louis, and that's where you get it confused.
1:29.6	But why would it be, it can be several things. The Pershing and Pershing. I just didn't know it's different. It's spelled P-E-R-S-H-I-N-G. How would you pronounce that? Pershing. Jing? So is it spelled different than the street? Is that what you're saying? Well, I think St. Louisans have an odd way of saying every street name.
1:29.8	Yeah.
1:27.2	Yeah. You know that, what's that big street that goes? Gravoi? Gravois? Yeah. No, the other one, Highway not 40? Farty. Farty, exactly. Highway 40. That's right. So I don't take any street pronunciation in St. Louis with a grain of salt.
1:27.5	Okay.
1:29.0	I'm going to call this live at the Pershing.
1:30.3	You call it whatever you want.
1:44.5	Okay. That's right. So I don't take any street pronunciation in St. Louis with a grain of salt.
1:44.2	I'm going to call this live at the Pershing. You call it whatever you want. It's just, let's just call it great. Is that the way we're supposed to say it, though? Let's call it how it's supposed to be said. How's it supposed to be said? Live at the Pershing. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Okay, so we're already, the track's almost over.
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