Why Jazz Musicians Love Hip Hop (ft. Switched On Pop)
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We're talking jazz influences in hip hop today with Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding from Switched On Pop. We dig into tracks from Kendrick Lamar (there's that TPAB acronym!), Common, Cautious Clay and David Bowie to surface the musical qualities that explain why jazz musicians love these artists.
Plus - we explore the striking similarities between jazz and hip hop, especially in the recording booth, and why we don't hear more jazz in the popular music canon.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Adam Anas. |
| 0:08.6 | And you're listening to the You'll Hear Podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | Music Explore. |
| 0:12.1 | Explored, brought you today by Open Studio. |
| 0:13.8 | Go to Open Studio. |
| 0:14.9 | Go to Open Studio.Jas.com for your jazz lesson needs Peter. |
| 0:18.1 | Yes. |
| 0:18.9 | Special day today. |
| 0:19.9 | Very special. Avec guests. We've got some con guests. With the guest. And actually, these are our first returning guests ever? I think they might be. Does it count returning if it's been seven years between? Absolutely. Yeah. Today on the show, we have Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding from the incredible Switched-on Pop podcast. |
| 0:54.7 | Nate, Charlie, welcome. Welcome. Thank you, guys. It's great to be here. I'm honored. Seven years. We're back. We're older. We're wiser. Look at us. Look at how far we've come. Throw down with you all. Yeah. Actually, I think they might be the second returning guest. |
| 0:54.7 | The only other person we've had on twice is actually... throw down with you all. Yeah. Actually, I think they might be the second returning guest. |
| 1:00.8 | The only other person we've had on twice is actually Ron Carter, who we're going to talk about in a minute. Nice little connection there. |
| 1:01.9 | That's right. |
| 1:02.8 | All the company. |
| 1:03.8 | Nate, Charlie, and Ron, we call it. |
| 1:05.9 | But when we were talking to you guys about what we wanted to talk about on the show, we started talking about jazz musicians and being on... Well, let's be honest. We started talking about jazz because we got, whenever we're talking to Nate and Charlie, we start getting nervous. We don't want to talk about it. Like, we revert back to, let's talk about jazz. Let's talk about jazz. Like, come on. Minor, major stuff. You, like, we got to go back to our wheelhouse real quick. |
| 1:29.3 | Because these are two of the most knowledgeable, interesting and nuanced commentators on music, so it's super exciting. |
| 1:35.3 | But we did want to talk about something that both of us might have some purchase in. |
| 1:40.3 | And so we started talking about maybe when jazz musicians come into |
| 1:44.6 | big recording sessions big albums and really leave their mark a lot of what we're |
| 1:50.4 | gonna be talking about today is hip-hop but we're gonna go a little bit |
| 1:52.4 | beyond that into some other areas but yeah I don't know guys maybe talk about |
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