@@sschmidtevalue I used to despise them, and then they became my favourite band. Life's funny in that way. I get why people might find Thom Yorke's voice off putting and that could be a big reason why you wouldn't enjoy them. I'd say try 'Faust Arp', 'Scatterbrain', 'Paranoid Android', 'How to disappear completely' 'Jigsaw falling into place', 'Everything in it's right place' ... that might be a weird mix that gives you a pretty good impression of what they do and if that's not for you, then you gave it a shot.
David! Thanks so much for having the brilliant idea to make these videos. It's been so fun to work with you and to see the awesome take you have on this subject!
@@DavidBennettPiano Randy Bachman introduced the pop generation to Jazz/Rock. Undun, Blue Collar, and of course Looking Out For Number One, are masterful mixes of the two styles. Lessons as a teenager from Jazz guitar master, Lenny Breau, made all the difference.
I don't agree with his claim that Airplane's White Rabbit was influenced entirely by Miles Davis. He's overlooked the Spanish influence in the earlier Beatles' Eleanor Rigby and the Stones' Painted Black.
“Another band you might not expect to be influenced by jazz is Radiohead” I’m watching a David Bennet video, I’m pretty sure Radiohead is going to be in there
That’s why I love these videos , specially since David talks about my favorite two bands (1 Beatles , 2 Radiohead) keep on with your great work David !
i love how you say several like there were lots. but yes sting and stewart copeland were pretty jazz influenced. sting knew a lot of theory and his songwriting and melodies were quite jazz influenced to some extent. stewart copeland originally grew up learning jazz drums so his work was very jazz influenced. andy summers was also fairly jazz influenced, some of his post-police work was fairly jazz fusion-y to some extent
The Police only had 3 members, how could there be "several" of them that were jazzers? Unless you consider 3 to count as several, in which case you could have just said All of the band The Police were jazz musicians
Actually, I was quite surprised that he actually deigned a passing mention of Stevie Wonder in this video. (Although it was only 2 of his AM radio hits…) Maybe he has finally been studying the most important pop songwriter of the last 60 years...
Pink Floyd, the Beatles and Radiohead are three of my favourite bands so please... ignore the haters and continue these very interesting videos. Thanks!
Actual pop inspired by jazz: * pretty much everything by Steely Dan New jazz songs recorded by pop artists. * Moondance - Van Morrisson * The man who sailed around his soul - XTC * Bad Habits - Billy Field
I'm a little surprised not to find Queen appearing on this list. Quite a few of their songs sound very Jazzy, even if not directly lifting melodies from Jazz. (Tracks like Seaside Rendezvous, Killer Queen and Crazy Little Thing all sound very Jazzy through use of Jangle / Honky-tonk pianos, lots of 7th chords and the swing)
With crazy little thing called love i think more of classic rock n roll. Jazz just tends to share similarities with rock n roll or any genre for that matter that came from blues. Still not bad point tho
Another obvious example is Steely Dan. “Gaucho” took the vamp from Keith Jarrett’s “Long As You Know You’re Living Yours” so blatantly that they eventually were forced to credit him as co-composer. “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” is built on the bassline from Horace Silver’s “Song For My Father”, and amongst others, there’s also “Parker’s Band”, an explicit homage to Charlie Parker. Also, on the subject of “Pyramid Song”: I strongly suspect that it influenced the Esbjorn Svensson Trio’s “Seven Days Of Falling”, demonstrating how influence can often be a two-way process.
Definitely surprised "Life in a Glasshouse" wasn't the Radiohead example. It features an actual jazz band, the Humphrey Lyttelton Band. The arrangement is supposed to sound like a New Orleans jazz funeral.
More Jazz-inspired songs? How about the whole of Prog? Prog rock and jazz fusion basically blended into one another in the 1970s. Also, Jonny Mitchell, who straddles both genres.
Various Jimi Hendrix songs have a jazz "slant." "Up From the Skies" and "Rainy Day, Dream Away" are probably the most obvious. A lot of the most skilled rock drummers of the 1960s were basically really loud jazz drummers, like Mitch Mitchell of the Hendrix Experience and Bill Ward of Black Sabbath. Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" is really a jazz tune disguised as a pop tune with "fancy" chords. The jazz influence on the Police comes via Sting and Andy Summers, and "Murder by Numbers" is probably the most overtly "jazzy" Police song.
I hadn't thought that way about Up From the Skies, a song I can go on a jag about, but you're right. No wonder Gil Evans did it in his Hendrix tribute album.
But wait... In “All Blues”, the D7#9 chord is simply a dominant V chord, whereas in “Breathe”, it’s part of a much more unusual kind of backdoor resolution. I think it’s sort of misleading to present things in absolute terms rather than in relative, or functional terms. The keys are different so the two D7#9 have completely different functions.
Well the keys aren’t particularly different... only relative major/minor. And I was only describing what Rick Wright said himself. The chords might be used in different ways, but the fact is that Wright was inspired by that chord’s inclusion in All Blues
@@DavidBennettPiano But “Breathe” resolves to Em, while “All Blues” resolves to G. I agree the chords are similar in that they’re respectively relative minor/major chords, but the keys of the songs are still different, don’t you agree? In “All Blues”’s case, you have a I - V - I, whereas in “Breathe”’s, you have a III - bVII - i. I agree the chord itself, not its function, might be the inspiration, but that chord, the “Hendrix chord”, isn’t that rare in rock music; even AC/DC uses it in “Shoot to Thrill”... It’s not a very jazzy chord like a 6/9 or a #11 might be. What’s your take on this?
What a great idea, man. Coincidence or not but yesterday i was watching David and thought that combination D7#9/ D7-9 itself resolves better in G than in Em. In "Breathe" it ends in a rather "unresolved" resolution and that's amazing. B7#9/ B7-9 would have sounded more strict and "fitting" to Em but it wouldnt have had a twist.
omg, really expected Life in A Glasshouse to be the jazz example for Radiohead, but was pleastly surprised! love kinetic sm, amnesiac has amazing b-sides
Me too, life in a glasshouse really sounds like a jazz influence song, it's one of the songs in the amnesiac album that I really like when I first hear the whole album, the one that really save the album tbh🙂
This one is amazing, David! I love jazz and I love blues, probably because I think they're both the complete heart of American music, and deeply intertwined. These examples you've illustrated are just fascinating. Thank you!
most on the nose, Cake's inclusion of a trumpet player for much of their career is definitely a sign of their inclination to add a hint of jazz into their art...most notably the trumpet solo in "Italian Leather Sofa" from "Fashion Nugget". As a trumpet player in elementary school just getting into the hip alternative scene...this was definitely exciting to hear buried in that album XD
@@youmothershouldknow4905 yes, that is probably the most honourable aspect of the actual music on the record, such a bold move considering the circumstances surrounding it
one of the first bands that popped into my mind was *Talk Talk* Mark Hollis was inspired by classical music but he loved Jazz, more specifically, *Coltrane* and Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock, and to some extent The Colour Of Spring have more Jazz inspired tracks.. Mark was a genius, rip.
David I have mean to ask you to do something, an analysis of The cure. (I don't know of what, but I think it would be very interesting as they influenced a lot in goth rock and new wave)
Enjoyed the video!! Very educational & engaging project. Members of the Grateful Dead have cited John Coltrane as an influence. The jam sections of some songs exemplify this influence
Thanks for another inspirational video! Another “jazzy” Pink Floyd song is “San Tropez” from “Meddle”. Keep up the great work. I always learn a ton from your videos. Thanks!
I think, many Paul's bass parts sounds like a "walking bass" ("All My Loving" as an example), that might to be inspiring by jazz too. P.S. Big hi from Russia, David!
What about "You'll never know how much I really love you you'll never know how much I really, girl" ? and then the whole song has nothing to do with that (I'm talking about Do You Want To Know A Secret by The Beatles) of course
Thats true! Fun fact, George is actually saying ‘you’ll never know how much I reallyyy caaare’. The Liverpool accent makes it so the ‘ah’ sound becomes more like ‘euh’. Like how Paul rhymes ‘I’d have never been AWARE/but as it is I’ll dream of HER tonight’ on I’ve Just Seen a Face.
@@facundosimonetti5203 Oh no worries man, everybody mishears lyrics, Dylan himself thought 'my love/I can't hiiiide' from I Want to Hold Your Hand was 'I get hiiiiigh' and thought the Beatles were stoners before they smoked up together haha
Very interesting and informative as ever. What about "Now We're Getting Somewhere" and "Sister Madly", both by Crowded House? And is Sting the elephant in the room? Or is he not mentioned because it IS jazz?
You can read up on the 'critics' of Jazz in the 20's and 30's and their aggressive stance against Jazz.They were mystified at how Europe was celebrating Jazz Musicians and giving them a social standing that the U.S critics just couldn't grant them.Due to the fact that they weren't regarded human enough to be allowed a vote. So although we can say it was the 'Pop' of its time, saying so , whitewashes what they were really going through.
How could you not qoute: Will you still need me will you still feed me when im Sixty four? with all that music-hall and jazz in it)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Yes, "Jazz" was the popular music of the early 20th century, but that jazz was pretty different from the jazz of the 1950s and later. Jazz changed over time.
In fact most of what David refers to as "Jazz" is not Jazz at all, but pop songs. Very well written pop songs, but pop songs all the same. Jerome Kern hated jazz… (and just to eternally irk him in his grave, the only people that play his tunes today are Jazz musicians ...)
Great topic... The section on verse vs refrain is a revelation. Thanks so much! I'm still midway through, but excited for this cross-over/collab with Aimee Nolte... this is a great day :-)
Dude, what you do through your videos is magical. You're helping me to see what I feel when listening to music. And it's beautiful to see the origins of the songs we love. Thank you!
I don't think the "Hendrix chord" comes from jazz, though. It isn't used like it would be used in jazz, as a dominant. Instead, it's used as the tonic. It has a stronger blues than jazz influence. The Hendrix chord, used as the tonic, is actually the "ultimate blues chord", because it contains the b7 and both kinds of thirds. The b7 + the combination of major and minor pretty much encapsulates the sound of the blues. Also, we need to remember that jazz was influenced by the blues, so if anything, the "Hendrix chord" in jazz probably has its origins in blues, not the other way around.
You know who was also influenced by Charles Mingus? John Paul Jones, better known as the bassist of the Led Zeppelin, credits Charles Mingus as well as jazz guitarist/bassist Phil Upchurch as one of his inspirations for learning bass guitar. He also said that Upchurch's _You Can't Sit Down_ LP is what inspired him to take up bass.
You've helped me work out why I’m so picky with what swing songs I like! Apparently, I love a good shout chorus! Thanks for this helpful tidbit in an amazing video!
I'd say jazz is thriving these days, especially in its fusions with hip hop. Is it really still "niche", or has UA-cam just made the niche more accessible?
I write song influenced by The Beatles and other popular artists. I've tried to get into Jazz for years, watching your videos and others, but it's never really clicked for me. This video has been helpful for me in seeing a connection I've been trying to understand for years. Thank you.
Well done, David, we understood that you like Radiohead....but what about other musicians, like Allan Holdsworth, Pat Metheny, Veronica Mortensen, Scofield? I think they wrote something more relevant than Radiohead, but it seems to me that your videos is only an illustration of Radiohead's and Beatles albums. There are so many musicians that deserve attention, not only RH and Lennon/Mac Cartney.
Jazz influenced hip hop deserves a video of its own. Nas, Jurassic 5 and Wu Tang spring immediately to mind, but so much old school relies on the hooks
I’m surprised he didn’t mention Life in a Glasshouse, easily the jazziest Radiohead song. Not sure what exactly influenced it but it sounds very New Orleans/Dixieland
I feel the Radiohead song Bloom reminds me of Bitches Brew a lot that whole from chaos comes beauty or even order when the bass line comes in on Bloom it sounds like chaotic noise at first I wonder if I am the only one who feels that way about it.
Hi David, could you address Michelle by The Beatles one day ? I'm always mesmerized by how they switch between major and minor, especially during the solo, and I would love to hear your analysis about it ! Thank you for your work, it's always a pleasure !
Great tune! And one that I almost included in this video! The “I love you, I love you, I love you” bit was inspired by Nina Simone’s version of “I put a spell on you” 😃
"Another band that you may not have expected to be influenced by jazz is Radiohead" ... tbh, after watching a lot of your videos, I would've been more shocked if you argued that Radiohead wasn't influenced by jazz :D
Early Allman Brothers Band was quite influenced by Kind Of Blue, their tune Hot 'Lanta sounds to me like their version of jazz incl. basic structure of head, solos, head.
Ok... 1. Pretty much everyone who's into Radiohead know they're HEAVILY influenced from jazz music, especially Mingus. 2. Mingus was way more Hard Bop than he was Free Jazz.
Some of his tunes count as free jazz, or at least end up there, like "One Love." Most of his '60s work with Eric Dolphy fall under hard bop only if one has a very loose definition of what that term means. He wrote "soul jazz" like "Eat That Chicken." He wrote almost every conceivable type of jazz tune.
@@jaschul You mean "What Love" (not "One Love" which was a BMarley tune if I'm not mistaken…) and it's not free Jazz. It's an open re-interpretation of 'What Is This Thing Called Love' by Cole Porter.
6:32 About the slower opening verse section followed by a more upbeat rest of song... I came across an 80s tune: Captain of her Heart by Double. ua-cam.com/video/lBlx1JffMQ4/v-deo.html I really like the key change at the end of the opening "Verse" section ! You might enjoy playing that piano part David.
David it would be really cool if you released somewhere those tunes you play on the piano at the end of your videos, like the Satin Doll one here. I’d like to hear the full version without the voiceover.
Uh, "Rikki Don't Lose that Number", whose piano line is lifted from a jazz tune? Glad you mentioned Stevie Wonder- jazz also influenced a lot of 1970s soul and R&B, especially in the chords used, which are often much jazzier than those used in earlier soul and R&B tunes.
How about the Autumn Leaves standard, wich is the base of a lot of pop songs? Think about I Will Survive, Million Year's Ago, You Never Give me my Money, Killing me Softly, Leef (Dutch Song), and so on :)
The progression doesn't originate from Autumn Leaves, though - it's the circle of fifths progression that can be heard in a lot of classical music too. It's a very common progression. So I'm not sure if all of those songs were influenced by Autumn Leaves. The Adele song? For sure. But the others? Can't really tell for sure. It's such a common progression, and based on such a basic element of Western functional harmony (descending fifths sequence) that I think it would be a bit of a stretch to say that every song that uses it is based on Autumn Leaves.
When you explained the concept of jazz verses in Beatles songs, I was surprised you didn't go into "Do you want to know a secret?" - sometimes John and Paul even gave their jazzy tunes to George!
P.S. I Love You is also interesting to mention. The intro is very similar (has the exact same lyrics) to the later bridge-section, only there's an extra chord thrown in, in the first three lines it goes: G - C#7 - D (in the bridge it is just G to D).
Randy Bachman introduced the "pop" generation to Jazz/rock. Undun, Blue Collar, and of course, Looking Out For Number One, are masterful mixes of the two styles. Lessons as a teenager from jazz guitar master, Lenny Breau, made all the difference.
All I could think of when you were talking about the 'verse' sections was the start of 'Thank You For The Music' by ABBA and 'Evil Woman' by ELO. Love those songs! :))
It's not a David Bennett Piano video without Radiohead, Pink Floyd and The Beatles
I love PF and the Beatles, but am sorry to say that I have not ever heard any Radiohead that I like - despite David's frequent examples.
@@sschmidtevalue angry fanboys are coming for you lol
Especially the beatles...
@@sschmidtevalue even Everything In It's Right Place?
@@sschmidtevalue I used to despise them, and then they became my favourite band. Life's funny in that way.
I get why people might find Thom Yorke's voice off putting and that could be a big reason why you wouldn't enjoy them.
I'd say try 'Faust Arp', 'Scatterbrain', 'Paranoid Android', 'How to disappear completely' 'Jigsaw falling into place', 'Everything in it's right place' ... that might be a weird mix that gives you a pretty good impression of what they do and if that's not for you, then you gave it a shot.
David! Thanks so much for having the brilliant idea to make these videos. It's been so fun to work with you and to see the awesome take you have on this subject!
Thank you for getting involved! 😁 I love how we both found such different examples. It just goes to show how influential jazz is!
hi Aimee
Both wonderful. The powerful playing goes on. Thanks!
@@DavidBennettPiano Randy Bachman introduced the pop generation to Jazz/Rock.
Undun, Blue Collar, and of course Looking Out For Number One,
are masterful mixes of the two styles.
Lessons as a teenager from Jazz guitar master, Lenny Breau,
made all the difference.
I don't agree with his claim that Airplane's White Rabbit was influenced entirely by Miles Davis. He's overlooked the Spanish influence in the earlier Beatles' Eleanor Rigby and the Stones' Painted Black.
“Another band you might not expect to be influenced by jazz is Radiohead” I’m watching a David Bennet video, I’m pretty sure Radiohead is going to be in there
That’s why I love these videos , specially since David talks about my favorite two bands (1 Beatles , 2 Radiohead) keep on with your great work David !
😂 tru dat. (Love it)
several members of the Police were jazz artists, and their grooves and chord voicings certainly exemplify that.
Surely Steely Dan deserve a very large shout out!
Sure there's countless of bands that 𝐶𝑂𝑈𝐿𝐷 be in any music discussion video... Always someone saying "hey! But that one band should be here!!"
i love how you say several like there were lots. but yes sting and stewart copeland were pretty jazz influenced. sting knew a lot of theory and his songwriting and melodies were quite jazz influenced to some extent. stewart copeland originally grew up learning jazz drums so his work was very jazz influenced. andy summers was also fairly jazz influenced, some of his post-police work was fairly jazz fusion-y to some extent
there where only 3 members
The Police only had 3 members, how could there be "several" of them that were jazzers? Unless you consider 3 to count as several, in which case you could have just said All of the band The Police were jazz musicians
Death, Taxes, and David Bennett talking about Beatles and Radiohead
All things that are imminent
Gets a bit tiresome after a while, doesn't it?
@@sootikins they make good music that is worth analyzing so no
Actually, I was quite surprised that he actually deigned a passing mention of Stevie Wonder in this video. (Although it was only 2 of his AM radio hits…) Maybe he has finally been studying the most important pop songwriter of the last 60 years...
This channel is proof that the Beatles are infinite
😍
they are!
Not really
@@nathanmontgomery1516 not really what? you don't like the Beatles?
@@nathanmontgomery1516 lol bet you've only heard She Loves You
"Eight Miles High" by the Byrds is inspired by Coltrane.
I am a simple man. When I see sir Paul McCartney in a David Bennet video, I click
With the sax in "Dark Side of the Moon", and "Wish You Were Here" albums, you know someone in the group is a jazz lover.
(Aimee sent me).
Pink Floyd, the Beatles and Radiohead are three of my favourite bands so please... ignore the haters and continue these very interesting videos. Thanks!
Oh don’t worry about that! Thanks for the support though 😃😃
@@DavidBennettPiano 👍 thanks for replying.
@Anne Day some are - others are downright rude
@@olivarionline no, they're not. I'm with Anne here. It's a gentle ribbing if anything.
I pity anyone who is a hater here. I can't even imagine it. Nor should David - lol.
Actual pop inspired by jazz:
* pretty much everything by Steely Dan
New jazz songs recorded by pop artists.
* Moondance - Van Morrisson
* The man who sailed around his soul - XTC
* Bad Habits - Billy Field
I'm a little surprised not to find Queen appearing on this list. Quite a few of their songs sound very Jazzy, even if not directly lifting melodies from Jazz. (Tracks like Seaside Rendezvous, Killer Queen and Crazy Little Thing all sound very Jazzy through use of Jangle / Honky-tonk pianos, lots of 7th chords and the swing)
I thought the most obvious ones were 'Good old fashioned lover boy' and 'My melancholy blues'. Both very '20s style jazz.
They had an album called Jazz for crying out loud haha...
With crazy little thing called love i think more of classic rock n roll. Jazz just tends to share similarities with rock n roll or any genre for that matter that came from blues. Still not bad point tho
Yes, the seaside rendezvous is pure old time jazz. Great song. The question is, copied from which song?
Another obvious example is Steely Dan. “Gaucho” took the vamp from Keith Jarrett’s “Long As You Know You’re Living Yours” so blatantly that they eventually were forced to credit him as co-composer. “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” is built on the bassline from Horace Silver’s “Song For My Father”, and amongst others, there’s also “Parker’s Band”, an explicit homage to Charlie Parker. Also, on the subject of “Pyramid Song”: I strongly suspect that it influenced the Esbjorn Svensson Trio’s “Seven Days Of Falling”, demonstrating how influence can often be a two-way process.
Basically every SD song is jazz influenced, Deacon Blues being my favourite. They're freakin amazing!
Definitely surprised "Life in a Glasshouse" wasn't the Radiohead example. It features an actual jazz band, the Humphrey Lyttelton Band. The arrangement is supposed to sound like a New Orleans jazz funeral.
Ya like jazz?
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@@DavidBennettPiano In the universe of musicans, this is a certified rickroll
I am a simple man, I see Richard Wright I click.
Such an incredible musician.
same
More Jazz-inspired songs? How about the whole of Prog? Prog rock and jazz fusion basically blended into one another in the 1970s. Also, Jonny Mitchell, who straddles both genres.
Like the entirety of King Crimson's Lizard.
Yep. The best proggers were classically trained who saw the light of jazz and mooshed it altogether in an otherworldly dream state.
Various Jimi Hendrix songs have a jazz "slant." "Up From the Skies" and "Rainy Day, Dream Away" are probably the most obvious. A lot of the most skilled rock drummers of the 1960s were basically really loud jazz drummers, like Mitch Mitchell of the Hendrix Experience and Bill Ward of Black Sabbath. Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" is really a jazz tune disguised as a pop tune with "fancy" chords. The jazz influence on the Police comes via Sting and Andy Summers, and "Murder by Numbers" is probably the most overtly "jazzy" Police song.
Yeah if I’m not mistaken Mitch Mitchell was trained in jazz drumming and was actually gigging as a teenager in jazz bands.
@@rudkx Yup!
I hadn't thought that way about Up From the Skies, a song I can go on a jag about, but you're right. No wonder Gil Evans did it in his Hendrix tribute album.
But wait... In “All Blues”, the D7#9 chord is simply a dominant V chord, whereas in “Breathe”, it’s part of a much more unusual kind of backdoor resolution. I think it’s sort of misleading to present things in absolute terms rather than in relative, or functional terms. The keys are different so the two D7#9 have completely different functions.
Well the keys aren’t particularly different... only relative major/minor. And I was only describing what Rick Wright said himself. The chords might be used in different ways, but the fact is that Wright was inspired by that chord’s inclusion in All Blues
@@DavidBennettPiano But “Breathe” resolves to Em, while “All Blues” resolves to G. I agree the chords are similar in that they’re respectively relative minor/major chords, but the keys of the songs are still different, don’t you agree? In “All Blues”’s case, you have a I - V - I, whereas in “Breathe”’s, you have a III - bVII - i. I agree the chord itself, not its function, might be the inspiration, but that chord, the “Hendrix chord”, isn’t that rare in rock music; even AC/DC uses it in “Shoot to Thrill”... It’s not a very jazzy chord like a 6/9 or a #11 might be. What’s your take on this?
What a great idea, man. Coincidence or not but yesterday i was watching David and thought that combination D7#9/ D7-9 itself resolves better in G than in Em. In "Breathe" it ends in a rather "unresolved" resolution and that's amazing. B7#9/ B7-9 would have sounded more strict and "fitting" to Em but it wouldnt have had a twist.
@@sergemichoels3937 Yeah, it’s a classic and strong V-I, compared with an interesting yet rarer bVII - i. Quite different in my opinion!
Also, I think the chord after D7#9 should be labeled D7b9, instead of D#dim7.
Why does David saying bitches make me laugh everytime
omg, really expected Life in A Glasshouse to be the jazz example for Radiohead, but was pleastly surprised! love kinetic sm, amnesiac has amazing b-sides
Me too, life in a glasshouse really sounds like a jazz influence song, it's one of the songs in the amnesiac album that I really like when I first hear the whole album, the one that really save the album tbh🙂
@@kirstytan7855 agreed! amnesiac is SUPER close to the Bends in my radiohead album ranking but Glasshouse pushes it over the edge to my favorite :)
@@Sapphirebulletsofpurelove yasss
@@Sapphirebulletsofpurelove Amnesiac is definitely my favorite album of theirs. I like it SO much better than Kid A, tbh.
This one is amazing, David! I love jazz and I love blues, probably because I think they're both the complete heart of American music, and deeply intertwined. These examples you've illustrated are just fascinating. Thank you!
Thanks Bob! 😀
All the yes.
most on the nose, Cake's inclusion of a trumpet player for much of their career is definitely a sign of their inclination to add a hint of jazz into their art...most notably the trumpet solo in "Italian Leather Sofa" from "Fashion Nugget". As a trumpet player in elementary school just getting into the hip alternative scene...this was definitely exciting to hear buried in that album XD
If I Fell has a 'verse' in a way...
Good point! Nice example
@@DavidBennettPiano Great video, man 👌
yeah i was thinking of that one too
I have re-listened the entirety of To Pimp A Butterfly on its 6th birthday and god damn did I want to see more talk about it here :D so much jazziness
With actual jazz musicians, rather than samples, no less.
@@youmothershouldknow4905 yes, that is probably the most honourable aspect of the actual music on the record, such a bold move considering the circumstances surrounding it
@@UltraCodex66 Tell ya one thing, the world class For Free jazz musicians weren’t for free.
Definitely look at Queen's "Good Company" if you don't know it. Brian May basically recreated a Dixieland jazz band using only his guitar.
Lovely to hear the real Sinatra and not "cover by so and so for copyright reasons".
Agreed!
one of the first bands that popped into my mind was *Talk Talk* Mark Hollis was inspired by classical music but he loved Jazz, more specifically, *Coltrane* and Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock, and to some extent The Colour Of Spring have more Jazz inspired tracks.. Mark was a genius, rip.
Those last two Talk Talk albums are fantastic, def lots of jazz influence
David I have mean to ask you to do something, an analysis of The cure. (I don't know of what, but I think it would be very interesting as they influenced a lot in goth rock and new wave)
I’ll try to get them into a future video!
@@DavidBennettPiano thanks
Could the beginning of "Do You Want To Know A Secret" by the Beatles be considered a verse?
Enjoyed the video!! Very educational & engaging project. Members of the Grateful Dead have cited John Coltrane as an influence. The jam sections of some songs exemplify this influence
Another top video, David. Love the jazz connection, also a big fan of Aimee Nolte. Would love to see more videos with a jazz vibe.
Thanks Hugh 😃
Thanks for another inspirational video! Another “jazzy” Pink Floyd song is “San Tropez” from “Meddle”. Keep up the great work. I always learn a ton from your videos. Thanks!
I think, many Paul's bass parts sounds like a "walking bass" ("All My Loving" as an example), that might to be inspiring by jazz too.
P.S. Big hi from Russia, David!
Great example! Yeah, Paul has a great knack for a good walking bass line!
After you mentioned what the Jazz "Verse" was, I immediately thought of Evil Woman (ELO).
Great video as usual. Could you please make a video about the music in Studio Ghibli films at some point? I'd love to see that
For me, its the Nausicaä soundtrack
Amazing movies from the Ghibli Studios.
What about "You'll never know how much I really love you
you'll never know how much I really, girl" ? and then the whole song has nothing to do with that
(I'm talking about Do You Want To Know A Secret by The Beatles) of course
Thats true! Fun fact, George is actually saying ‘you’ll never know how much I reallyyy caaare’. The Liverpool accent makes it so the ‘ah’ sound becomes more like ‘euh’. Like how Paul rhymes ‘I’d have never been AWARE/but as it is I’ll dream of HER tonight’ on I’ve Just Seen a Face.
@@elrabeechum5180 Oh my ears fooled me, I knew it didn't make sense, thanks!
@@pastorandreaswendt It certainly is
@@facundosimonetti5203 Oh no worries man, everybody mishears lyrics, Dylan himself thought 'my love/I can't hiiiide' from I Want to Hold Your Hand was 'I get hiiiiigh' and thought the Beatles were stoners before they smoked up together haha
I liked how to mantain the name of your channel you play the piano at the end lol
I had just assumed that Jefferson airplane were trying to sound Spanish. Like a game of telephone that one.
mmm jazz
oh also love u david
“Til There was you” by The Beatles should have been included
@@pastorandreaswendt Meredith Willson wrote it, but it was written for The Beatles only, right?
@@pastorandreaswendt Thanks for acknowledging this, I did not know that it was a cover! Yes, still it proves the point for Beatle's Jazz inspiration 😄
That song is actually sort of a jazz standard so it certainly does show their jazz influence 😃
@@DavidBennettPiano Will a second video come on this topic?! This is really a great influence 🙏🙏❤️
@@banjoindrajit It was taken from an American 'musical', the name is on the tip of my tongue, can't quite remember,.. check it up on Wikipedia.
Very interesting and informative as ever. What about "Now We're Getting Somewhere" and "Sister Madly", both by Crowded House? And is Sting the elephant in the room? Or is he not mentioned because it IS jazz?
You can read up on the 'critics' of Jazz in the 20's and 30's and their aggressive stance against Jazz.They were mystified at how Europe was celebrating Jazz Musicians and giving them a social standing that the U.S critics just couldn't grant them.Due to the fact that they weren't regarded human enough to be allowed a vote.
So although we can say it was the 'Pop' of its time, saying so , whitewashes what they were really going through.
Most studio musicians, who played on the majority of hit records in the 50s and 60s, were jazz musicians
How could you not qoute: Will you still need me will you still feed me when im Sixty four? with all that music-hall and jazz in it)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Lana Del Rey and Billie Eilish are both very inspired by jazz.
Awesome! The first thing I did when I got to work this morning is watch this video. The rest of the day is mush. Thanks David.
Thanks for watching!
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Yes, "Jazz" was the popular music of the early 20th century, but that jazz was pretty different from the jazz of the 1950s and later. Jazz changed over time.
In fact most of what David refers to as "Jazz" is not Jazz at all, but pop songs. Very well written pop songs, but pop songs all the same. Jerome Kern hated jazz… (and just to eternally irk him in his grave, the only people that play his tunes today are Jazz musicians ...)
Some of the jazziest heavy metal is surely found of Black Sabbath's debut album.
Examples?
Great topic... The section on verse vs refrain is a revelation. Thanks so much! I'm still midway through, but excited for this cross-over/collab with Aimee Nolte... this is a great day :-)
thank you for this interesting video.
Dude, what you do through your videos is magical. You're helping me to see what I feel when listening to music. And it's beautiful to see the origins of the songs we love. Thank you!
I learned a great deal. THX!!!!
Thanks for watching!
Hello David! Are you sponsored by Radiohead? LOL 😂
So Hendrix too? The E7#9 is one of the "Hendrix" chords
From my perspective Floyd has always had the undercurrent of chord sophistication in jazz.
I don't think the "Hendrix chord" comes from jazz, though. It isn't used like it would be used in jazz, as a dominant. Instead, it's used as the tonic. It has a stronger blues than jazz influence. The Hendrix chord, used as the tonic, is actually the "ultimate blues chord", because it contains the b7 and both kinds of thirds. The b7 + the combination of major and minor pretty much encapsulates the sound of the blues.
Also, we need to remember that jazz was influenced by the blues, so if anything, the "Hendrix chord" in jazz probably has its origins in blues, not the other way around.
You know who was also influenced by Charles Mingus? John Paul Jones, better known as the bassist of the Led Zeppelin, credits Charles Mingus as well as jazz guitarist/bassist Phil Upchurch as one of his inspirations for learning bass guitar. He also said that Upchurch's _You Can't Sit Down_ LP is what inspired him to take up bass.
You've helped me work out why I’m so picky with what swing songs I like! Apparently, I love a good shout chorus! Thanks for this helpful tidbit in an amazing video!
Thanks Kate! 😃
I'd say jazz is thriving these days, especially in its fusions with hip hop. Is it really still "niche", or has UA-cam just made the niche more accessible?
UA-cam has certainly done a lot for jazz recently! But I would say it’s still very much an alternative music.
Great Gig in the Sky, also by Pink Floyd certainly has some jazz parentage.
I write song influenced by The Beatles and other popular artists. I've tried to get into Jazz for years, watching your videos and others, but it's never really clicked for me. This video has been helpful for me in seeing a connection I've been trying to understand for years. Thank you.
Well done, David, we understood that you like Radiohead....but what about other musicians, like Allan Holdsworth, Pat Metheny, Veronica Mortensen, Scofield? I think they wrote something more relevant than Radiohead, but it seems to me that your videos is only an illustration of Radiohead's and Beatles albums. There are so many musicians that deserve attention, not only RH and Lennon/Mac Cartney.
bravo!!! you are my favorite
Thanks! 😁
Jazz influenced hip hop deserves a video of its own. Nas, Jurassic 5 and Wu Tang spring immediately to mind, but so much old school relies on the hooks
I’m surprised he didn’t mention Life in a Glasshouse, easily the jazziest Radiohead song. Not sure what exactly influenced it but it sounds very New Orleans/Dixieland
You could do a part 2 just focused on songs by Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell and Amy Winehouse
Enlightening video as always!!!
Thanks Josh! 😃😃
Great video. May I add, bass intro to Steely Dan's "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", from Horace Silver's, "Song for My Father"?
cool video
US3 straight up loops Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island for their song Canaloop Flip Fantasia.
Let’s play among us david
I feel the Radiohead song Bloom reminds me of Bitches Brew a lot that whole from chaos comes beauty or even order when the bass line comes in on Bloom it sounds like chaotic noise at first I wonder if I am the only one who feels that way about it.
Hi David, could you address Michelle by The Beatles one day ? I'm always mesmerized by how they switch between major and minor, especially during the solo, and I would love to hear your analysis about it !
Thank you for your work, it's always a pleasure !
Great tune! And one that I almost included in this video! The “I love you, I love you, I love you” bit was inspired by Nina Simone’s version of “I put a spell on you” 😃
"Another band that you may not have expected to be influenced by jazz is Radiohead" ... tbh, after watching a lot of your videos, I would've been more shocked if you argued that Radiohead wasn't influenced by jazz :D
Great video, also I'd add some tracks from The Police and Maroon 5's first album couple of songs like Sunday Morning.
Deep Inside by Incubus
this band used chords less commen in pop/rock alot in their earlier work
Early Allman Brothers Band was quite influenced by Kind Of Blue, their tune Hot 'Lanta sounds to me like their version of jazz incl. basic structure of head, solos, head.
Oh my, Your channel is amazing! Thanks so much for all this knowledge!
Ok...
1. Pretty much everyone who's into Radiohead know they're HEAVILY influenced from jazz music, especially Mingus.
2. Mingus was way more Hard Bop than he was Free Jazz.
Some of his tunes count as free jazz, or at least end up there, like "One Love." Most of his '60s work with Eric Dolphy fall under hard bop only if one has a very loose definition of what that term means. He wrote "soul jazz" like "Eat That Chicken." He wrote almost every conceivable type of jazz tune.
I’m in a college jazz band and my ensemble director just brought us a Radiohead transcription
@@jaschul You mean "What Love" (not "One Love" which was a BMarley tune if I'm not mistaken…) and it's not free Jazz. It's an open re-interpretation of 'What Is This Thing Called Love' by Cole Porter.
What do you mean "not expected Pink Floyd to have been inspired by Jazz"? What other genre inspires those soulful instrumentals?
Fantastic, thank you again,David
XTC has a lot of melodically interesting stuff. Would love to hear some analysis on them!
6:32 About the slower opening verse section followed by a more upbeat rest of song... I came across an 80s tune: Captain of her Heart by Double. ua-cam.com/video/lBlx1JffMQ4/v-deo.html I really like the key change at the end of the opening "Verse" section ! You might enjoy playing that piano part David.
Us and Them and the Great Gig in the Sky both by Floyd are great examples of Rick Wright’s Jazz influence
White Rabbit is more notably inspired by Ravels Bolero
David it would be really cool if you released somewhere those tunes you play on the piano at the end of your videos, like the Satin Doll one here. I’d like to hear the full version without the voiceover.
Uh, "Rikki Don't Lose that Number", whose piano line is lifted from a jazz tune? Glad you mentioned Stevie Wonder- jazz also influenced a lot of 1970s soul and R&B, especially in the chords used, which are often much jazzier than those used in earlier soul and R&B tunes.
"Song for My Father" bass line
i don't know much about this but "here's looking at you" by blondie has a similar verse idea and vaudeville feel too !
4:40 morning here in Japan; I’m half-asleep but at least could find your video came out
Thanks for the nice Good-night(morning?) videoooo
Thanks! 🇯🇵
Very cool.
A perfect watch with my morning coffee. ☕
How about the Autumn Leaves standard, wich is the base of a lot of pop songs? Think about I Will Survive, Million Year's Ago, You Never Give me my Money, Killing me Softly, Leef (Dutch Song), and so on :)
The progression doesn't originate from Autumn Leaves, though - it's the circle of fifths progression that can be heard in a lot of classical music too. It's a very common progression. So I'm not sure if all of those songs were influenced by Autumn Leaves. The Adele song? For sure. But the others? Can't really tell for sure. It's such a common progression, and based on such a basic element of Western functional harmony (descending fifths sequence) that I think it would be a bit of a stretch to say that every song that uses it is based on Autumn Leaves.
Santana's "Europa" uses the chords changes for Autumn Leaves
I love it. Jazz is amazing when it comes to the piano, bass, and drums imo. They're much more exciting than they are in typical music.
“If I fell” is another Beatles song with a “verse”.
When you explained the concept of jazz verses in Beatles songs, I was surprised you didn't go into "Do you want to know a secret?" - sometimes John and Paul even gave their jazzy tunes to George!
Nice example!
My personal favourite Beatle verse is "If I fell". Amazing.
P.S. I Love You is also interesting to mention. The intro is very similar (has the exact same lyrics) to the later bridge-section, only there's an extra chord thrown in, in the first three lines it goes: G - C#7 - D (in the bridge it is just G to D).
That tritone substitution in the beginning of If I Fell - beautiful stuff 🔥🔥😎😎
David another wonderful video. Ohh the 2 5 1 lol. Hope you are well. From 🇨🇦
Thanks!!
the beats’ covers sound like melted versions of the originals
Randy Bachman introduced the "pop" generation to Jazz/rock.
Undun, Blue Collar, and of course, Looking Out For Number One,
are masterful mixes of the two styles.
Lessons as a teenager from jazz guitar master, Lenny Breau,
made all the difference.
All I could think of when you were talking about the 'verse' sections was the start of 'Thank You For The Music' by ABBA and 'Evil Woman' by ELO. Love those songs! :))
i believe that jazz is at the centre of all music jenras