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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Wynton Kelly - Freddie Freeloader (Solo Breakdown WED) - #8

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today, Peter and Adam do their weekly breakdown of a classic solo. Today's selection: Wynton Kelly's super-swinging solo on Freddie Freeloader. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

I'm Adam Manus and I'm Peter Martin and you're listening to the You'll hear at podcast

0:20.0

Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. Brought to you by Open Studio. Now, Pete, this isn't our typical intro music. Something sounds different. Something sounds a little different. What's going on? Sounds very good. Well, it's Wednesday, so it's solo analysis. Solo analysis. Hashtag solo analysis. This track seems familiar to me.

0:38.7

Vaguely familiar.

0:41.1

This is, of course, Freddie Freeloader.

0:48.9

We will be expecting the attorneys from the Miles Davis estate and the Bill Evans estate to be at our door by the end of the day.

0:50.3

We're only going to play 15 seconds.

0:50.8

Oh, that's good.

0:51.7

We're sampling.

0:52.5

This is a sampling.

0:53.2

This is not a play.

1:11.8

No, this is, of course, just the iconic track. You know it. You love it, as Christian McBride likes to say. Freddie Freeloader from Kind of Blue. And one of the most beloved blues or otherwise tracks ever. And we're going to analyze the first solo.

1:13.6

I mean, we could come back to this one.

1:15.0

We'll do it further Wednesdays.

1:17.2

I mean, you could do it every solo on this track.

1:18.5

Yeah, I mean, everyone's coming strong.

1:20.2

But we're going to hit Witt and Kelly because we're pianist.

1:20.9

And it's first.

1:21.6

Let's have a listen.

1:21.9

Okay. Okay, stop right there.

1:31.0

Sorry.

1:31.7

We're going to be doing a lot of stop it.

1:32.6

I know this solo well.

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