You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin & Adam Maness
Two jazz pianists breaking down classic albums track by track at the keys, playing isolated stems to show how the harmony actually works.
Why we picked this
We picked You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians because it treats popular records with the rigorous analytical attention usually reserved for classical composition. Hosts Adam Maness and Peter Martin do not just praise great songs; they sit at the keys, isolate stems, and map out the exact harmonic choices that drive a track. The show strips away genre barriers, demonstrating how rock, pop, and soul share structural DNA with traditional standards. Subscribing trains your ear to hear the architecture beneath the melody.
The best hang in music. Jazz pianists Adam Maness and Peter Martin break down the greatest albums of all time, track-by-track. Like Thriller, Kid A, Songs In the Key of Life, Aja, and Voodoo. They use their deep knowledge of music theory to uncover the hidden qualities that make music work - harmony, groove, composition and production - while demonstrating at the keys and playing isolated stems. Then, watch them perform their favorite track with our in-house band: One shot, one take. You'll never hear music the same way again. A video podcast from Open Studio, the #1 online jazz education plat
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