What Makes This Album Great: Thelonious Alone In San Francisco

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4.9 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode, Adam and Peter start a new series! What exactly makes the Jazz catalog so great. Let's delve into Thelonious Alone in San Fransico and really break down what elements make it so iconic.

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0:00.0	Hey Adam.
0:01.0	Yo.
0:02.0	What you know about Fugazi?
0:04.0	Like this?
0:05.0	No, no, like this.
0:08.0	Oh yeah.
0:09.0	I like this quite a bit.
0:12.0	Well, let's talk about what makes it so great.
0:16.0	Let's get into it. I'm Matt Amanus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll
0:33.6	Here at podcast. Daily Jazz advice coming at you. Coming at you today, sponsored by OpenSudio.
0:38.2	Go to Open Studio. Go to Open StudioJadjazz.com and check out our free trial. Yes. Free 99. Peter, what do we have today? What's going on? Well, we're starting something new here. Well, that's not really new. I mean, we're always like listening to albums and cherishing them, but we're going to break down.
0:35.0	I have brought an album with me.
0:36.7	Okay.
0:37.1	Yes.
0:37.5	A physical copy of an album with you.
0:39.4	Well, I do have this as a physical album. I didn't
0:59.6	bring that today. I brought my Spotify login details. We're going to do it via that instead.
1:03.5	Brought your Spotify credentials. To an album listening party. That's right, right. We're going to listen
1:08.7	to Thelonius alone in San Francisco. And we've come up with a bespoke. Now, this truly is bespoke. I'm so sorry. Ten part, he promised. Ten point. He promised he would never say bespoke again. Wait till the end, because one of our listeners actually used the word bespoke. We're going to talk about that at the end. Don't let me forget. No, but this is, we've come up with a 10-part criteria for rating an album. Just talking about what makes it great. Yes. And maybe we can keep track of these scores and see how we stack up after we've done a few of these. Loosely based upon the wine spectator, 100 point. So it's 10 different criteria, 10 points. I like it.
1:45.4	A hundred is a perfect album. I like it a lot. I like it a lot. Okay. Well, let's get into it.
1:49.0	Full disclosure, I love this album. It's a great album. So what's your relationship to this album? Peter, when did you first discover this? When Marcellus recommended this record to me when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I got a chance to meet him here
2:01.4	in St. Louis. He was playing with the St. Louis Symphony. My dad was playing then. And he invited
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