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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
30 episodes
In Rainbows – Radiohead
Ep 4 · Aug 10, 2026 · 58 min
Jazz pianists Adam Maness and Peter Martin unpack Radiohead's 2007 masterpiece 'In Rainbows', track-by-track. Hear about the harmonies, odd time signatures, Thom Yorke's singing technique and the production choices that give this album its sound. And learn why many of the musical choices made for 'In Rainbows' are strange for an album that hit #1 on the US and UK charts, and sold three million copies. If you're hearing 'In Rainbows' for the first time, you're not alone. So is Peter! And if you'r…
Best New Jazz In July 2026: Domi & JD Beck, Terri Lyne Carrington, Charles Lloyd and more
Ep 3 · Aug 7, 2026 · 22 min
New albums all hand-picked from jazz pianist Adam Maness for your listening pleasure. 00:00 - Intro 01:51- Epiphanie - Domi & JD Beck https://store.bluenote.com/products/domi-jd-beck-who-asked?srsltid=AfmBOoqy83sYVjg7gWOWEPzDP1lzL0qSN3BWoiNb80SR6foAtB1hFJUi 05:45 - Solidarity Song - Terri Lyne Carrington https://terrilynecarrington.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-night-fantastic 08:01 - Eye Level - Fathers https://store.bluenote.com/products/fathers-fathers?variant=45730941010111&utm_source=Original…
Songs in the Key of Life – Stevie Wonder
Ep 1 · Aug 3, 2026 · 44 min
Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life is all killer, no filler. Every track is a masterpiece. It's almost TOO easy for two jazz pianists in the business of reviewing history's greatest albums. So we're upping the stakes ... with a draft. Adam and Peter each present their top tracks from Songs in the Key of Life, compare and contrast, and see who comes out on top with the best lineup. Along the way, they reveal why Stevie Wonder is the master of harmony, how he (and only he) can get away with…
You'll Hear It Is Back! Season 15
Jul 28, 2026 · 1 min
You'll Hear It is a weekly listening party for people who love music ... a little too much. Every Monday, Jazz pianists Adam Maness and Peter Martin sit down with one great album and break it down track-by-track. They listen, demonstrate what they are hearing, and put words to the moments you have always felt and haven't been able to explain. You’ll never hear your favorite albums the same way again. You'll Hear It returns with Season 15: August 2026.
Purple Rain – Prince and the Revolution
Ep 29 · Jul 6, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min
Adam and Peter break down Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain, the 1984 soundtrack that turned him into a global superstar. They go track by track, from "Let's Go Crazy" to the title song. With keyboards in hand, they break down the sophisticated music theory underneath this pop hit to reveal the hidden qualities that make this album great. You'll never hear Purple Rain the same way again. Stay tuned to the end of the episode for a bonus track: A jazzy live performance of Purple Rain by Open…
Our TOP Picks For Your Favorite Listens of July 2026
Ep 28 · Jul 3, 2026 · 19 min
Our Top Picks of new jazz and jazz-adjacent releases from June 2026!
Heavy Weather – Weather Report
Ep 27 · Jun 29, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min
Weather Report's Heavy Weather became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. But there's so much more to it than "Birdland", Heavy Weather's radio hit. In fact, Peter makes the case that it might just be the weakest moment of the entire record. Jazz pianists Adam Maness and Peter Martin break it down track-by-track: From Jaco Pastorius's fiery fretless bass, to Joe Zawinul's beautiful piano, to the less-than-perfect production. You'll never hear Heavy Weather the same way again. 0:00 H…
Court and Spark – Joni Mitchell
Ep 25 · Jun 15, 2026 · 60 min
With her 1974 masterpiece Court and Spark, Joni Mitchell transforms from folk singer into something harder to define. Her piano playing matures. Her songwriting blossoms into one of the richest harmonic and melodic color palettes we've ever heard up to this point. Not to mention her incredible lyricism and melodies. And she brings a new production sensibility from her backing band: a group of jazz musicians called The LA Express. In this episode of You'll Hear It, Jazz pianists Adam Maness and P…
The BEST Moments from MJ's Greatest Run, Ranked
Ep 24 · Jun 8, 2026 · 22 min
Jazz musicians Adam Maness and Peter Martin review their three favorite songs from Michael Jackson's most iconic albums: Bad, Thriller and Off the Wall. And their choices aren't what you might expect. Plus - Adam, Peter and the Open Studio band play their jazzy interpretation of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal. ------------------------------- Start your free Open Studio trial for ALLLLL your jazz lesson needs: https://openstudiojazz.com/ ------------------------------ Off the Wall: https://you…
Oh, Jeff Parker? He Gets It.
Ep 23 · Jun 1, 2026 · 24 min
Adam Maness brings you the freshest releases of May 2026! 0:00 Intro 0:50 Jeff Parker https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/happy-today 3:45 Greg Hutchinson https://www.allmusic.com/album/kind-of-now-mw0004778588 6:15 Chris Potter https://chrispotterjazz.bandcamp.com/album/alive-with-ghosts-today 9:09 New Jazz Underground https://www.allmusic.com/album/hoodies-mw0004791891 11:04 Virginia MacDonald https://virginiamacdonald.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of 13:00 Harry Skoler https://harryskoler1.b…
Sonny Rollins (1930-2026)
Ep 22 · May 29, 2026 · 50 min
Sonny Rollins passed away this week at 95. Jazz pianists Peter and Adam are listening through the recordings that defined his career and made him one of the most influential musicians in jazz history. From his earliest bebop tunes to Saxophone Colossus to A Night at the Village Vanguard, they trace the arc of a player who kept raising the bar on himself even when the rest of the world thought he'd already cleared it. Plus - they talk through the legendary Williamsburg Bridge sabbatical: two year…
Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Ep 21 · May 25, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is one of the greatest albums of all time - possibly THE greatest. But it's not perfect. In this special episode of You'll Hear It, jazz pianists Peter Martin and Adam Maness break down this classic record, track-by-track, to uncover why it has become so legendary. They dig into what's really going on in the music during this album's best moments: Miles's trumpet solo on "So What", Wynton Kelly's piano solo on "Freddie Freeloader", John Coltrane's entrance on "Blue in…
Thrust – Herbie Hancock
Ep 20 · May 18, 2026 · 60 min
Herbie Hancock's Thrust (1974) is one of the most influential jazz-funk records ever made. Peter Martin and Adam Maness break down the full album, track-by-track: Mike Clark's displaced backbeats, why Paul Jackson is such an unusual bass player and possibly the greatest Rhodes solo of all time. Plus - Adam shares a story about learning "Spank-A-Lee" at 16, and Peter tells us about meeting Paul Jackson for the first time. And ... is "Actual Proof" ACTUALLY the best track on the album? -----------…
Mothership Connection – Parliament
Ep 19 · May 11, 2026 · 53 min
Could Parliament be the most important band of the 1970s? Jazz pianists Adam Maness and Peter Martin break down Parliament's 1975 masterpiece Mothership Connection track-by-track: Bootsy Collins bass lines that launched a thousand samples, grooves that lock you in and won't let go, and the New Orleans connection that George Clinton says started the whole thing. Plus: isolated bass and drums stems. You'll never hear Parliament the same way again. Chapters Legend: 🎧 Listening to a track 🎹 Music…
WOAH: Angine de Poitrine Might Be It
Ep 18 · May 7, 2026 · 19 min
Join Adam Maness as he delves into the best new music released in April 2026 (ish). This month we're featuring the incredible microtonal Angine de Poitrine and many more!
Genius + Soul = Jazz – Ray Charles
Ep 17 · May 4, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
YHI + McBride = Ray Charles?! Christian McBride - bassist, Grammy winner and one of the greatest musical minds working today - joins Adam and Peter on You'll Hear It to share his desert island album. If you know Christian, you know that his musical hero is James Brown. But Christian isn't bringing a James Brown pick. Instead, he's bringing one from his hero's hero ... Ray Charles. This album was a risky move for Charles - unlike anything else he'd released at that time. At the peak of his power,…
Kid A – Radiohead
Ep 16 · Apr 27, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min
Check out Adam’s course for more on Kid A and the harmony of Radiohead: https://osjazz.link/radiohead You've never heard Kid A like THIS. Jazz musicians Adam Maness and Peter Martin break down Radiohead's 2000 art rock MASTERPIECE track-by-track to uncover what's really happening in the music that makes this album so incredible. Why do we love Radiohead's Kid A so much? Watch to find out. PLUS - Jazz musicians play Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place". One shot, one take, no AI. FULL vide…
Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', and Steamin' – Miles Davis Quintet
Ep 15 · Apr 20, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', and Steamin' capture Miles Davis on one of music history's most remarkable upswings. He had recently become clean after a years-long heroin addiction that led to his exclusion from major record labels and clubs. And now, in 1956, he had a deal with Columbia - the Cadillac of record labels - and a band he loved: Red Garland on piano, Philly Joe Jones on drums, Paul Chambers on bass and John Coltrane playing the sax. In this episode of You'll Hear It, jazz pianists Pete…
I Want You – Marvin Gaye
Ep 14 · Apr 13, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min
Marvin Gaye's I Want You could be one of his greatest albums, and he didn't even write it. Producer Leon Ware wrote most of the songs for himself. Marvin Gaye was only supposed to record the title track. But he heard Leon playing a demo of the album one night and stayed up listening until morning. The next day, he asked Ware if he could have the whole thing. In this episode, Peter and Adam break down why the title track, "I Want You", might be one of his best songs, and whether the rest of the a…
Buena Vista Social Club
Ep 13 · Apr 6, 2026 · 59 min
Buena Vista Social Club: The album so good it's life-affirming. And it almost didn't happen. In 1996, an American musician landed in Cuba to record a music project with Malian musicians. But when they didn't show up, Ry Cooder and his producer, Juan de Marcos González, went looking for replacements. That's when they found Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer and Rubén González, who had seen their musical prime decades earlier in the 40s and 50s. Compay was nearing his 90s, and some believed he had die…
"Money Jungle" – Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Ep 12 · Mar 30, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
What happens when you put three of jazz's biggest personalities in a studio for a day? You get Money Jungle: Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Can it work? Miles Davis hated it. Others revere it. And the story behind this album is WILD. It's perhaps the most tense album we've ever listened to. And this episode of You'll Hear It is possibly the most we have ever disagreed about an album! Listen for the music, the hot takes, or just to see what all the fuss is about. No matter your rea…
Best New Jazz Of March 2026
Ep 10 · Mar 27, 2026 · 25 min
We're looking at the best jazz releases of March 2026! Listen with pianist Adam Maness as he breaks down and reacts to these great tracks. Start your free Open Studio trial for ALLLLL your jazz lesson needs: https://osjazz.link/yhi
"Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington" – Thelonious Monk
Ep 9 · Mar 23, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington: The musicians on this album were already legends when it came out in 1955. Each of them completely reinvented how people play their instruments. Drummer Kenny Clarke: the originator of so much of modern drumming language. Bass player Oscar Pettiford: possibly the greatest bass soloist in the history of the instrument. And then there's Monk, one of the singular greatest pianists of all time. And here they are playing the music of Duke Ellington: an untouchabl…
"Brown Sugar" – D'Angelo
Ep 8 · Mar 16, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min
D'Angelo's Brown Sugar sounded like nothing else in 1995. R&B was slick, polished, and built for clubs. D'Angelo later said the "deeper consciousness" had gone out of contemporary music. Questlove later wrote that contemporary R&B had become "trite" and "soulless" ... and then there was Brown Sugar, D'Angelo's debut album. It sounded more like the '70s than the '90s. More like church than the club. On this episode of You'll Hear It, jazz pianists Adam Maness and Peter Martin go track by track th…
"The Shape of Jazz to Come" – Ornette Coleman
Ep 7 · Mar 9, 2026 · 50 min
Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) may be the most controversial album in jazz history, and one of the most important. In 1959, a broke musician from Fort Worth, Texas arrived in New York City with a plastic saxophone and a band that didn't play by the rules. And EVERYONE had an opinion about it. Jazz legends hated it. Miles Davis said Ornette was "all screwed up inside." Max Roach punched him in the mouth. Dizzy Gillespie said Ornette's music wasn't even jazz. Meanwhile, Leonard…
"Music of My Mind" – Stevie Wonder
Ep 6 · Mar 2, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min
Jazz pianists Adam Maness and Peter Martin dive into Music of My Mind, track-by-track, listening to isolated stems and breaking down the music theory behind the songs. Plus - we talk about TONTO, the one-ton synthesizer Stevie used to create this record. And we dig into the innovative ways Stevie and collaborators Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff mixed the album. Music of My Mind was the first of a five-album run that formed Stevie Wonder's Classic Period, including Talking Book (1972), Inner…
Best New Jazz In February 2026
Ep 5 · Feb 27, 2026 · 18 min
We're looking at the best jazz releases of February 2026! Listen with pianist Adam Maness as he breaks down and reacts to these great tracks. Start your free Open Studio trial for ALLLLL your jazz lesson needs: https://osjazz.link/yhi 00:00 - Intro 00:26 - In On It - Pat Metheny 02:20 - Circlesz - GENA 04:13 - Will You Walk A Little Faster - Holland, Stone, London Vocal Project 06:31 - La Sentencia - Melissa Aldana 08:55 - La Fiesta - Geoffrey Keezer & Tim Garland 10:58 - Oo Long! - The Tomeka R…
"Charlie Parker with Strings" – Charlie Parker
Ep 4 · Feb 23, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min
Charlie Parker was punk rock before there was punk rock. His bebop was underground music: subversive, intellectual, and a major departure from popular music of the day (think: Nat King Cole, The Andrews Sisters, Perry Como). He was an intellectual heavyweight, nearly untouchable in his technical ability and pushing music to places no one else was daring to go. So where did Charlie Parker with Strings, his most accessible album, come from? It's not Bird going commercial, like some have claimed. C…
"Gaucho" – Steely Dan
Ep 3 · Feb 16, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min
Is Steely Dan's Gaucho more perfect than Aja? Maybe even ... too perfect? Two years in the studio. The greatest session musicians alive asked to play take after take after take until it was exactly right. And sometimes that STILL wasn't enough for Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. On today's episode of You'll Hear It, jazz pianists Peter Martin and Adam Maness are breaking down the 1980 album track by track: the jazz harmony hiding inside those smooth grooves, the abstract poetry of the lyrics, an…
"Bad" – Michael Jackson
Ep 2 · Feb 9, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min
The Impossible follow-up: Michael Jackson's 1987 album Bad. Five years after Thriller changed everything, Michael returned with a record that would become one of the best-selling of all time, win two Grammys, feature some of the greatest musicians in the world (hey, Stevie Wonder!) ... and somehow still gets called a letdown. We've covered two of Michael's albums produced by Quincy Jones: Off the Wall and Thriller. What about Bad? Could it actually be better than its predecessor? Jazz pianists P…
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