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What's up?

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You'll hear at listeners Adam here. Peter's not here.

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Peter is playing at the Village Vanguard this week

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with Christian McBride, and I thought I would take this

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opportunity to do a little recap for you, you know,

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on the podcast we listened to a lot of music from, you know,

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19 71, 19 75, 19 82, 19 59,

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even 1963.

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We liked those years. So I thought it would be cool

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to listen to some music that came out in 2025, some

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of our favorites from some of our favorite artists,

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and it's a pretty good list.

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I think it's pretty complete,

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but I'm sure I left out some gems.

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So please put in the comments, your favorite jazz albums

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of 2025 or jazz adjacent albums.

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We got some jazz adjacent stuff in here as well.

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We're gonna start though with one of our all time favorites,

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the Branford Marsalis Quartet.

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Uh, this is of course Branford Marsalis on the saxophone.

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Joey Calderazzo on the piano.

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Eric Revis on the bass, and Justin Faulkner on the drums.

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This is a Blue Note album.

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This is Brandford's Blue Note debut album called Belonging.

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And this is Spiral Dance.

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Branford and the boys always bringing it just amazing.

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Joey Razzo, one of our favorite pianists here.

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You gotta check out the whole album.

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The in the album is an interpolation interpretation.

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I interpolation or interpretation. We'll never know.

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It's an interpretation of Keith Jarrett's 1974 album

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Belonging that has the same track order.

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Uh, it's pretty great.

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Listen, I recommend listening to the whole thing

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because it is fantastic.

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Some of the greatest in the genre right there.

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Okay, next up we've got an album by the one

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and only Kenny Barron.

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Uh, Kenny Barron, who is a modern master

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and, uh, released an album, uh,

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called Songbook in June on the Artwork records.

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And, uh, these are 13 of his own compositions lyricist.

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Janice Jarret adds words to each piece

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and he's got a long time trio with him.

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Kiyoshi Kitagawa. Jonathan Blake provides the foundation.

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And Katherine Russell is singing on this trek,

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the original Minor Blues Redux.

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Thanks for what we got. Keep on coming.

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You know, we can't stop now. Have to do some.

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I know they're coming.

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Give thanks for what we got.

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Keep on coming,

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you know, can't stop now.

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Got to do so

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in every moment.

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There's a treasure, the pleasure when we

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are there for one another.

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Sisters and rounds,

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How good is that?

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The ones that came before us, sow the seat

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so we could carry on work to be done.

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Look towards

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Katherine Russell there singing minor blues.

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Redo. Kenny Barron, 82 years old, still sounding amazing.

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Uh, honestly, go listen to his playing on this album

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and just be wowed by the Fountain of Youth.

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That is Kenny Barron. I got

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to see him live in a duo situation

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with Benny Green just a couple years ago,

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and he was putting on a show, he was putting on a clinic.

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It was fantastic.

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Uh, again, uh, Kenny Barron.

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The album is called Songbook.

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It's on the Artwork records label.

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We've got a new album for Joshua Redman as well.

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It's called Words Fall Short. It's another Blue Note album.

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And this is with a new band for Joshua Redman.

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He chose a bunch of people in their twenties.

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Nazir Ebo Philip Norris, Paul Cornish, Skyler Tang.

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This is Icarus from Words Fall Short.

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That is Icarus from the new Joshua Redman album.

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Words fall short. I am such a sucker for when a,

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a master like Joshua Redman,

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an established musician who's been around for a minute, uh,

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hires a band of just fiery young upstarts.

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And this is in that tradition fully.

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Next up, we've got an enchanting album from

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an enchanting duo.

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This is Gillian Margot and Geoffrey Keezer, vocalist

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and pianist respectively.

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Peter and I actually got to see them tour this album.

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They came here through St. Louis.

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And honestly, one of the highlights of 2025

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for me was that show.

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It was just a magical evening of two musicians,

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partners in music, partners in life.

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And they just are in this lock step

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with each other the whole way.

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Both, you know, they're very different artists,

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but they bring these, this chemistry

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that just is undeniable when they play, uh,

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this piano vocal duo.

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And they released an album this year.

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It's self-titled Just Gillian Margot and Geoffrey Keezer.

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This is Thou Swell,

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Thou Sweet Thou Grand would kiss me

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pretty woods.

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Hold my hand, both eyes. Do what you do to me.

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Hear me holler.

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I choose a sweet Lalapalooza in the, I feel

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so rich in a heart for two, two rooms

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and a kitchen, I'm sure would do.

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Give just a plot of not a lot of land

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and swell thou witty,

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thou swell

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And all that stuff Keer is doing underneath.

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Now. Sweet Thou Grant, what gives me pretty woods?

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Hold my hand. Both my eyes argue.

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Do what you do to me

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Hear may holler at Jesus Sweet Lalu.

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Oh,

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how

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Great is that? Gillian

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Margot, Geoffrey Keezer two amazing artists in their

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own right getting together on this self self-titled album.

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By the way, they're both instructors here at Open Studio.

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They both have courses on open studio.

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Jillian has a great vocal course

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where I actually am a little bit

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of a Guinea pig singing for her.

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I was so nervous about that,

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but she's really helped me out in some vocal things.

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And then Geoffrey Keezer has many courses

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for us here at Open Studio, just a complete

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pianistic master.

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And, uh, so exciting that they made this album and,

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and really, really worth the listen all the way through.

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Another, uh, brand new open studio artist is on

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our list a few times here.

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The incredible Sullivan Fortner released a trio album called

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Southern Knights back in March.

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This is on the Artworks records label.

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Uh, just as Kenny Barron was this features Marcus

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Gilmore and Peter Washington.

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And Sullivan wanted to record this with no rehearsals,

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no retakes, and no isolation

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to capture the true spontaneity.

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Uh, this is in Alan Toussaint, song called Southern Nights.

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So before we get too far in, I just wanna explain

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what he's doing there real quick.

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Do you hear that that harp sound right?

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So what he's doing is he's pressing down on the keys

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to the piano without making a sound right on a

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lot of grand pianos.

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You can very gently press down on the keys

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and the hammer has what's called the break

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where it won't actually hit the key.

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So you can make a cord like that

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and not use the sustained pedal,

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but just hold a cord down without making a sound.

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And then you scrape your nails along the strings.

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And it sounds like that guitar harp like

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sound, let's hear that again.

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It's really cool.

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Famously Oscar Peterson starting, uh,

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Corcovado Quiet Knights on his,

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we take requests the same way.

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Marcus Gilmore on the drums, Peter Washington, the bass

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Man.

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Woo.

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Sullivan's such an interesting pianist.

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It's a great true album.

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A lot of unexpected twists

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and turns per usual for a Sullivan Foreigner album.

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Sullivan shows up again on Cécile McLorin Salvant

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and S'S album, which is no big shocker.

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They've made a lot of great music together over the last

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decade or so now.

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Uh, it's been an incredible productive partnership

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for them artistically.

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And this is from Cecile's new album, oh, snap,

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which is, I thought a revelation the first

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time I heard this album.

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There's so many surprises on it.

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I'm such a huge fan of everything she does.

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She's always keeping you guessing as a fan.

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You know, every release is like, what is,

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where's her head going now?

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It's so inspiring as an artist

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and just everything she does, I'm just, I'm here for it.

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I'm, I'm ready to take the journey.

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And Oh Snap is no different.

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Just a really, really magical, uh, journey to take.

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Listening to the whole album, this track that I chose,

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anything but now is kind of a, it kind

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of is an outlier on the album, honestly.

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But I love the song so much because it resonates so much.

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It's about being anywhere

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but here about how our minds go anywhere,

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thinking about anything, anything, anything, anything.

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But now you, you'll get the idea.

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But this is Sullivan on the piano.

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Kyle Poole on the drums, Yasushi Nakamura on the bass.

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Check it out.

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1, 2, 2, 1. Overthinking one. Two,

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I spend a lot of time thinking about doing things

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instead of doing them.

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I spend a lot of time thinking about saying things instead

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of saying them out loud, out loud, out loud.

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I spend a lot of time ruminating,

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reminiscing about the past, fantasizing about the future,

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Thinking About anything, anything,

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anything, anything, anything.

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But now thinking about anything,

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anything, anything, anything.

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But now

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I spend a lot of time thinking about doing things instead

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of doing them, I spend a lot

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of time thinking about saying things instead

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of saying them loud.

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I spend a lot of time ruminating

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ramini about the past, fantasizing about the

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Future, Thinking about anything.

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Anything, anything, anything, anything.

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But now thinking about anything,

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anything, anything, anything,

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Anything. Now

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thinking about

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Anything. Anything,

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anything. Anything, anything. But now

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Thinking about Anything, anything, anything, anything.

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But now

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I love it so much.

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My goodness Gracious Cecile just crushing Sullivan,

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just crushing at that tempo.

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I love too that she's like pushing the,

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she's pushing the mics.

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Um, and the preempts into somewhere very

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interesting at the end there.

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She's really, she's really going for it.

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I love it when, when people go for it.

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It's a great album all the way through.

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Like I said, that's not really like a great representation

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of everything on this album.

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Not, it's not like a, a lot of straight ahead stuff.

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There's a lot of, there's folk vibes in there.

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There's a electronic music vibes in there, uh,

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worth checking out.

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That's Oh Snap from Cécile McLorin Salvant.

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Next up, uh, we've got another incredible artist, uh,

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who put out, I think this is one of the better albums

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that came out in the whole year.

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And I think mostly because, um, I'm 46

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and I love Brad Mehldau Till the Day I Die.

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I love everything he does. I always have.

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And then he happened to make an album full

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of Elliott Smith songs.

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I don't know if I mentioned this, but I'm 46.

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So Elliot Smith is right there in my wheelhouse.

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Brad Mehldau, making an album

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of Elliot Smith songs would've been something

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that 18-year-old me would've, uh, wrote down as like,

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if I could win the lottery or

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have this, which would I rather have?

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And I might've wanted to have this.

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And honestly, it doesn't disappoint. He pulled it off.

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I listened to the track I'm about to play with,

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which is everything means nothing to me.

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Uh, an incredible song.

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Um, and this one was the one

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that I was really worried about.

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Like, would he, would he be able to pull this out

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because it's, it's challenging

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and I think he absolutely nails it.

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He absolutely crushes it.

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So we're gonna listen to most of here.

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Everything means Nothing to me.

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Brad Mehldau on the None such label.

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Bassoon Bassoon makes most things better.

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Matt Chamberlain on the drums throughout this whole

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album, the Real Treat.

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So it was about here that I was starting

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to get a little worried, like, is he gonna be able to

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bring the spirit of the original?

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I mean, he is already made this very original sounding,

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but he's gonna be able to like capture

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what makes this track the original track.

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So great. And he does. He lands the plane.

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That's All we were waiting for.

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That's all we were waiting for.

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Honestly, the first time I heard that my hands went up in

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the air and I might have said out

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loud, you did it, Brad.

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I don't even as if I'm talking as if he's there, just

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because it's really difficult to pull off

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what he pulls off in this album.

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And he does. He pulls it off and it works. It really works.

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It could have been, it could have not worked

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and it works great.

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Uh, next up is, uh, another Gen X jazz icon,

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Robert Glasper featuring Yebba.

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This is from Robert's album.

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Keys to the City, volume One on the Loma Vista record label.

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Uh, this album compiles standup moments from, uh,

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Robert's five year residency, the annual Rob Tober

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at the Blue Note in New York City.

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And we've all seen the clips, right?

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We've, we all look forward to Rob Tober every year.

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And you get all those Instagram clips of,

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of Robert Glasper playing with some

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of the greatest musicians in the world coming through.

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And this is one of 'em. This is, uh, Robert Glasper and Yebba.

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And this is over.

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Hold on, lemme try it again. And this is another one.

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This is Robert Glasper and Yebba. And this is Over.

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I was

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so many moves

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dancing in dramatic.

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And after all the that happened, you know,

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It's like you're in the room.

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It's like you're at the blue note.

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There's a two drink minimum, a really,

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really fun live album.

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Uh, so check that out from Robert Glasper.

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Uh, that's over featuring Yebba Next Up is one

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of the most acclaimed albums

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of the year from Mary Halvorson.

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Incredible guitarist, very unique musician.

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This is from an album called About Ghostson

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the none such label.

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This is called Carved from

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Mary Halvorson, always playing with our ideas

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and expectations about what jazz is,

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what improvisation is, what guitar is.

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We're always left like, do I know

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what a guitar is after that?

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Um, a beautiful playing too by the Amaryllis Sextet Sextet.

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Uh, on there, Patricia Brennan, Nick Dunston,

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Tomas Fujiwara, Jacob Garchik and Adam or O’Farrill.

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Next up we have a new album from Christian McBride.

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This is a big band album featuring a 17 piece big band.

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It's called Without Much Ado Volume One.

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It's on the Mack Avenue records label.

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Uh, Christian took this album on like Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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He's been all over with it, and it's a great album.

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You don't hear too many great big band albums anymore,

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but this is fantastic.

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This track features Samara Joy on the old tune. Old folks,

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Everyone knows him as old folks.

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What a voice. What a voice.

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Samara like the season he'll come

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and he'll go

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just as free.

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And what a treat to hear Christian McBride in this

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context of a big band

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That's

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so always leaving

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his spoon in his coffee,

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tuck his nap.

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Wow.

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Very, very enjoyable. Big end album.

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Every Christian McBride without Much Ado Volume one on the

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Mack Avenue label.

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Next up, we've got a, a release from

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a dearly departed artist.

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This is another album featuring Christian McBride.

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It was recorded, uh, but in February

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and March of 2020, uh, the year

00:29:12,615 --> 00:29:14,855
before the Great Chick Corea passed away.

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So this is Trilogy three live.

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It's on the candid record label

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and um, it features Chick Corea on the piano,

00:29:22,925 --> 00:29:26,215
Christian McBride on the bass, and Brian Blade on the drums.

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And it's amazing.

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It's just so incredible to hear Chick

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and how good he was playing right up until the end.

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And man, do we miss him?

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We really miss Chick Corea around here. This is Windows

00:31:29,845 --> 00:31:32,205
unbelievable playing, unbelievable playing by Chick Corea.

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Yeah, it's just a real treat.

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Anything that we can get new from Chick, uh, um,

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posthumously we will take.

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It's just to hear him playing in that context

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with those two musicians, Christian McBride

00:32:15,485 --> 00:32:18,085
and Brian Blade is, is really magical.

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And, uh, yeah, that whole album, the version

00:32:20,725 --> 00:32:23,845
of Humpty Dumpty is unbelievable.

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I encourage you to go check it out. Um, that's it.

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We have one more track,

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but I just want to thank you for, uh, listening with me.

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Don't forget to put in the comments what I left out.

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I'm sure I left out some amazing music.

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This is a really good year for jazz, actually a really,

00:32:39,445 --> 00:32:40,725
really good year for music in general.

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So put in the comments your favorite albums of 2025,

00:32:44,705 --> 00:32:46,925
and I think we're gonna be doing some more

00:32:46,925 --> 00:32:48,765
of this new music, uh,

00:32:49,195 --> 00:32:52,885
listening sessions on the You'll Hear It podcast in 2026.

00:32:52,915 --> 00:32:55,885
It's one of our goals to do maybe a weekly what's been

00:32:56,245 --> 00:32:57,605
released in the jazz world.

00:32:57,705 --> 00:32:59,685
So stay tuned for that. That's coming.

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We are gonna go out with a new album from Dee Dee Bridgewater

00:33:03,845 --> 00:33:05,565
and Bill Charlp that was released this year.

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It's called Elemental. It's on Mac Avenue.

00:33:07,835 --> 00:33:09,845
Bill Charlap, just one

00:33:09,845 --> 00:33:12,525
of the most amazing pianists working today.

00:33:12,705 --> 00:33:15,605
Dee Bridgewater, one of the most incredible vocalists

00:33:15,765 --> 00:33:18,125
around, and they teamed up for this.

00:33:18,435 --> 00:33:21,805
There's nobody better at supporting vocalists than Bill,

00:33:21,825 --> 00:33:25,245
and there's nobody better than of, uh, interacting

00:33:25,245 --> 00:33:26,325
with pianists than Didi.

00:33:26,325 --> 00:33:28,805
So this is a really, really incredible combination.

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Here they are performing Mood indigo.

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You'll hear it everybody.

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You ain't

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been blue.

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No, no,

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no,

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you ain't been,

00:34:31,625 --> 00:34:34,285
you've had that

00:34:56,385 --> 00:35:00,165
to my shoes while I

00:35:01,825 --> 00:35:03,605
sit And.