Our TOP Picks For Your Favorite Listens of July 2026

July 03, 2026 3:00am 18 min

Heavy Weather – Weather Report

June 29, 2026 3:00am 1:05

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 we...

WOW: New Music For June 2026

June 26, 2026 3:00am 23 min

Check out the latest jazz and jazz-adjacent releases for June 2026 with host and jazz drummer Kaleb Kirby.

Court and Spark – Joni Mitchell

June 15, 2026 3:00am 59 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 ...

The BEST Moments from MJ's Greatest Run, Ranked

June 08, 2026 3:00am 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 ...

Oh, Jeff Parker? He Gets It.

June 01, 2026 3:00am 23 min

Adam Maness brings you the freshest releases of May 2026!0:00 Intro0:50 Jeff Parkerhttps://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/happy-today3:45 Greg Hutchinsonhttps://www.allmusic.com/album/kind-of-now-mw0004778588 6:15 Chris P...

Sonny Rollins (1930-2026)

May 29, 2026 11:00am 49 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 b...

Kind of Blue – Miles Davis

May 25, 2026 3:00am 1:26

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 cl...

Thrust – Herbie Hancock

May 18, 2026 3:00am 59 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 suc...

Mothership Connection – Parliament

May 11, 2026 3:00am 52 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 ...

Best New Jazz Of April 2026

May 07, 2026 10:01am 18 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

May 04, 2026 3:00am 1:00

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...

Kid A – Radiohead

April 27, 2026 3:00am 1:38

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 inc...

Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', and Steamin' – Miles Davis Quintet

April 20, 2026 3:00am 1:11

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 recor...

I Want You – Marvin Gaye

April 13, 2026 8:59am 1:07

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 Leo...

Buena Vista Social Club

April 06, 2026 3:00am 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 C...

"Money Jungle" – Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach

March 30, 2026 3:00am 1:12

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 stor...

New Jazz From FLEA?!

March 27, 2026 3:00am 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://osjaz...

"Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington" – Thelonious Monk

March 23, 2026 3:00am 1:06

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 ...

"Brown Sugar" – D'Angelo

March 16, 2026 3:00am 1:35

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 contem...