You're heading to the wineries. It's a fall day in Missouri.
Oh, yeah.
Leaves are changing.
Yeah.
Put a little Pink Moon on in the car. It's cozy in that car.
Okay, got you. Yeah.
Don't worry about it. The vibe is just hitting.
Right. Yeah.
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Yes. It's a cozy day. It's sweater weather in a lot of-
Sweater weather
... a lot of parts of the world.
That's right.
We're doing this episode because cozy has been co-opted-
Ugh
... by horrible AI playlists.
Don't get me started.
For some reason, it must be the easiest thing to program up: some cozy-feeling
music-
Yeah
... because it's just everywhere.
This is AI that's been trained up on probably Bill Evans Trio, for sure.
For sure.
And some other great recordings.
A lot of the people on this list are-
Actually, yeah, that's probably true.
But if you go to chill coffee music or study music on YouTube or something, you'll
get these playlists. And I get it. They serve a purpose, right?
Yeah.
To nauseate us.
Well, to be background noise and to make you feel like there's something happening,
but it's-
Right
... not really happening. And that tracks, actually. That's what happens.
Right.
It's like this weird music, non-music thing going on.
Right. But this could be music, I think, that you could cozy up with your loved one
or sit with a book, not a pumpkin spice-less latte.
How about just a straight latte? Can we do that?
I'd like a latte, sure. All right, well, let's trade off on our favorite cozy
tracks for fall, and what is your first track?
I decided to start strong, and just my hope is to totally annihilate you, and that
you're just going to be into submission.
You're going to walk out of the room after you hear-
Buddy
... this. I mean, you got some bangers, but-
It's supposed to be cozy
... get ready to cozy up.
Oh, yeah.
Coming strong.
Mm.
Yeah. The temperature did just drop a couple of degrees.
That's right. Or did it just rise?
And no regrets. I still believe in chasing dreams
and placing bets.
Man.
But I have learned that all you give is all you
get.
So give it all you've got.
I wish I was cuddled up in a book nook right now.
Book nook. That's right.
Oh, Shirley Horn.
Wearing flannel pajamas and-
Oh my God, don't get me-
I've had my share.
Her voice, the orchestration-
I've had my fill
... the harp, the woodwinds, the keyboard.
And even though-
The harmonies. These are cozy harmonies, aren't they?
... I'm satisfied, I'm hungry still.
Yeah, this song is like taking a hot shower after being out in the snow all day.
You know, shovel your driveway. You know the shower after the shovel?
After the shovel.
The shovel shower.
Shovel shower.
After you shoveled all the snow off your driveway and you're...
Oh.
And this is, of course-
So here's to life
... "Here’s to Life," Shirley Horn.
"Here’s to Life," Shirley Horn.
And, yeah, so I mean-
Yeah. I mean, anybody who's at all familiar with this show knows that this is-
I know
... one of our favorite songs.
It's us. We love Shirley Horn.
My first pick-
Yes
... I wanted to pick something that would rival your first pick, and so I picked
someone, the first name that came to mind when I thought of what's cozy music to
put on, is an artist that we've never played on the show before.
Really? Okay, this is overdue.
But someone I really, really enjoy.
Yes.
And that's this person.
Hmm. Even her piano playing style is cozy.
Very cozy. Ah.
Cozy guitar,
cozy brushes.
Come away with me in the night.
Man. The music she must have listened to when she was a kid leading up to this.
Right.
You can hear all these incredible influences.
Of course,
the great Norah Jones.
Yes.
"Come Away With Me."
Texas' finest.
Yeah. Thank you, Norah.
She kind of reinvigorated the cozy jazz vibe on Blue Note.
It was a whole vibe when this album came out.
Yeah.
Away with me.
It kind of reinvigorated Blue Note.
I know.
It was this enormous, massive-
Yes
... Grammy Award-winning hit.
Yeah. Man.
And-
And to your pumpkin spice latte thing, many copies sold at Starbucks.
100%.
Remember that time you couldn't walk in Starbucks without hearing this?
100%.
Yeah.
But an incredibly cozy...
I mean, that's one of those albums that's like, it's perfect for, they nailed what
they were going for.
Cozy cover. I’m looking at the-
By the way, Brian Blade all over that.
That's right. Yeah, exactly. So my next one, this was a cozy
song, "The Nearness of You." I'm throwing that out there.
Oh, yeah.
But no, this is
a youngish vocalist that we saw on Broadway last year-
Oh, yeah
... who was playing the part of the singer in "Good Night, and Good Luck."
She was amazing.
She was amazing. Georgia Heers.
Yeah.
And-
Shout-out, too, for that show: Joe Block, pianist on that show.
Yes.
Crushed.
He has a new record out, by the way. We should check that out.
And Bryan Carter, who was MD.
Yes. And this is,
I'm sorry, I wasn't familiar with
Tyreek McDole on guitar.
It's a cozy guitar tone.
Yeah.
These are cozy lyrics, cozy everything.
It's not the pale moon-
What a great voice
... that excites me. That thrills
or delights me.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Oh, cozy vibrato, right?
It's just the nearness-
Very cozy intonation
... of you.
Ooh. This is great, man.
Cozy substitutions.
I just want to note for our show here-
Yeah
... we are three songs into a playlist, all of them post 1980s.
Wow. We're not entirely into this century, but we're getting close.
That's pretty good for us.
That is good. This, actually, I think it was from last year from Georgia, but she's
just one of my favorites. Samara Joy, Georgia Heers.
I think we have some wonderful vocalists-
Cécile
... on the scene. Cécile, of course.
Yeah. Of course. All right, I'm going to take it back now to the '70s, to our
comfort zone.
The 1870s.
But this is someone we recently talked about on the show and had some really good
feedback of like, "Hey, I've never heard of this person before," which is
surprising. But when I was thinking about the cozy stuff, actually, producer Kaleb
was in here, and he’s like, "You got to do Nick Drake, ‘Pink Moon,’ if you’re doing
cozy." And that’s what we’re doing. This is Nick Drake, "Pink Moon."
I saw it written and I saw it say.
Pink moon is on its way.
Hmm.
None of you
stand so tall.
Pink moon, and I get chills. And
it's a pink moon. Yes, pink
moon. Pink, pink, pink, pink.
Pink moon.
So intimate, man.
Yes.
And another incredible voice.
Great track-
Yeah
... and very intimate, incredible voice, but this might be the first little
quandary you have here.
Okay.
Intimate, great, cozy though?
"Pink Moon?"
Yeah.
I would put "Pink Moon" in the cozy.
Lyrically, yes.
Lyrically, yes. And also, even though, yes, the guitar is strumming-
It's a little open road-ish, though, isn't it?
It is a little open road-ish.
Little Bob Dylan-ish.
But it is, I mean, you put, okay, great point. You're heading to the wineries.
It's a fall day in Missouri.
Ooh, yeah.
Leaves are changing. You're out there in O'Fallon.
Right.
And you're heading out to Augusta.
Yeah.
Put a little Pink Moon on in the car. It's cozy in that car.
Okay, got you. Open road and cozy. Got it.
I mean, don't drink and drive.
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So now we're going to move on to something that you may push back on a little bit,
but I've been listening to this record, and I really like it, and to me, it's got a
cozy vibe. This is Nicole McCabe, who you may not know, a great saxophonist.
I've known her for some years now.
She came through the Betty Carter program, as did a number of other incredible
musicians that I was able to get acquainted with.
But she's from, I believe, Los Angeles.
Savannah Harris, a great drummer, who’s been working with Christian McBride and many
others now. They did a duo record earlier this year, maybe last year, just
saxophone and drums.
Cool.
Which you might think, cool, but not cozy. But check this out.
Okay.
"With a Flower."
Now there are three things I want to add to this playlist.
Well-
That's a great album
... should've thought about that earlier.
This is great, man.
Yeah.
This is a great pick.
Yeah.
This is great. So highly recommend both.
I think Nicole and Savannah are two of the finest of the young-ish crop of jazz
musicians making a name for themselves, so I just love listening to it.
That’s called "With a Flower"?
Yeah, "With a Flower."
Nicole McCabe and Savannah Harris-
Yeah
... and their duets record. That's, of course, I'm assuming that's Nicole
overdubbed with a beautiful saxophone choir. I'm looking down our list now.
There are some happening that are like, oh, well, now we're in the obvious ones.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, Norah Jones wasn't obvious?
That's actually true.
"Here’s to Life."
But now we're getting into,
so I chose a cover of something that could've made this list as the original.
Oh, right, but we couldn't.
Well, but I prefer this cover to the original.
Ooh, shots fired.
I’m saying it right now. And this show’s maybe top album-
I know
... D'Angelo's "Voodoo."
Yeah.
This is D'Angelo's cover of "Feel Like Makin' Love," originally made popular by
Roberta-
Roberta Flack.
Flack.
You okay?
I'm fine. Let's take a quick trip back to the Flack here. Sorry.
Too soon.
Go. This is a great pick. It doesn't feel cozy yet-
Oh, it's cozy
... but it's about to. It's about
to.
The first Rhodes tinkle.
Yeah, exactly.
Woo. Adam's grooving. Oh.
Can we just listen to this for the show?
Yeah.
I mean, D'Angelo's voice, uber cozy.
The guitar, the Rhodes.
Roy.
Roy Hargrove.
Yo, this is our first kind of cozy club.
That's the perfect cozy club.
You’re cozied up in the club.
Oh, yeah.
Like a little base?
Yeah.
Not like a grown folks’ club.
You're in one of those circular booths-
Yes. Yeah
... with the red leather and super dark.
Lights are way down.
Yeah.
There's no dark light. Everybody looks great.
A drink in your hand. Everybody looks amazing, yeah.
Because it's so dark.
You're 22 probably.
Right.
Woo.
Oh, cozy break.
Come on.
Oh my God. Can we just do the D'Angelo podcast?
Dude, if this whole podcast was just a "Voodoo" podcast, I'd be okay with it.
We've literally gone through every one of his albums.
Wait, that's not a bad idea, though. Okay, you might have won on that one.
Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway,
Quiet storming.
Quiet storm and cozy: a little overlap.
Woo. Man, it's so good.
Little swirling. Was that Juno synth?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's from that era, for sure.
Yeah, probably. Yep. That's a Juno 74.
The closer I get to you.
Roberta's voice is high-level cozy.
High-level cozy, yeah.
Very restricted in the publishing world, though.
Great pull.
Yeah.
Great pull.
By giving me all you got.
And for Donny and Roberta-
Your love has captured me
... this isn’t necessarily my favorite track, but I think it’s the coziest.
Over and over again. I try to tell myself that we
could never be more than friends. And all the while inside-
The cozy bridge harmony
... nothing was real. The way you make me
feel.
Man, great call.
I may be lost.
Great call.
Yeah.
Great call. We're trying out here, man. We're trying to get cozy.
That’s one of my favorite episodes we’ve done, the Roberta, Donny-
Yeah. Yeah
... episode that we did. Okay, we just did an episode on this album, and when I was
thinking of cozy tracks, I was like, there's got to be some Bill Evans-
Oh
... in some. And I think just because we just listened to this, this was on my
mind, "My Foolish Heart" from Waltz for Debby.
Great. Great.
Cozy jazz club.
This one's definitely been-
I think this is like-
... ripped from AI
... yeah, some of the low-level AI only-
Yeah
... only got trained on this.
That is true.
Great training, but come on.
Slow motion.
Scott LaFaro, very cozy bass sound. The coziest of bass sounds, right?
Yeah, like a warm blanket.
Yeah.
Imagine being down at the Vanguard when it’s like 17 degrees upstairs.
You got a big heavy coat on.
Right, because it's probably 56 downstairs.
Take it off. Freeze your a*s off, yeah.
I mean, the whole catalog really, you know?
Is the Bill Evans Trio the coziest of jazz trios?
It's-
Yeah
... it's up there.
I mean, I think-
Maybe Vince Guaraldi is slightly cozier.
Yeah. Right
You know?
Everybody who's cozy after that was so influenced by Bill Evans, though.
I got someone who might rival-
Brad Mehldau Trio's kind of, well, intellectually cozy, right?
Yeah. Some of it really is.
Yeah.
But they also can go into rip mode sometimes.
Oh, yeah.
So can Bill Evans. But I got an artist coming up that definitely rivals Bill Evans
as far as that.
So next up I have,
we haven't spoken about this artist that we lost, I don't believe, on the podcast.
Cassandra Wilson-
Big loss
... we just lost last month or within the last two months.
One of the greatest vocalists of her generation, of our generation, and one of the
most influential, and I think will be going forwards.
And such, I mean, just one of
those artists that I haven't even come to terms with, that we're not going to get
to hear her live.
Did you ever get to play with her?
I did get to play with her, and it was one of the, I mean, I have so many memories
at the House of Blues in New Orleans.
Cool.
I mean, 30 plus, 30 years ago or something.
But I got to hear her live, and I played with Reginald Veal, Lonnie Plaxico.
She had such an impact with other great musicians too.
Yeah.
She was this incredible singer, but an incredible bandleader and musician within-
Yeah
... going back to the '80s. But this is from a record, it's not from one of her
records.
You're right about, just incredible ears.
Yes.
Like incredible musician.
Oh.
My introduction to her was I was into, when I was in high school, Jacky Terrasson,
the pianist, right?
Yes. Yeah.
And he made a live album with her called "Rendezvous." I think it was live.
Oh, yeah. Blue Note.
Yeah, on Blue Note.
Yeah.
And that was my introduction to Cassandra-
Yeah
... and I was just blown away by how she was able to like-
Yes
... mix it up with the trio as well.
Yeah. And she didn't record a whole lot, and she had great records.
I mean, she had some huge records. But this was from "Love Jones," from the
soundtrack-
Oh, cool. Yeah
... which was 1997, '96, which was one of my favorite movies.
Just a great Chicago movie with an incredible soundtrack.
Maxwell and Duke Ellington and John Coltrane are all...
I mean, the soundtrack is one of the best.
Oh, that would be a good one for us to do for soundtracks.
Anyway, Cassandra Wilson, "You Move Me."
Remember moments
so precious and rare.
Yeah, this is so good
You know my secrets.
You know the curve and the line.
One touch,
and I know
you are mine.
Just, oh, what a voice.
Amazing.
This is her song. She wrote this and wrote the lyrics, and I'm pretty sure that's
her arrangement because I know how she would work.
Like she could
It sounds very Cassandra Wilson.
Very, yeah.
Yeah.
She just had such an ear for simplicity, but really interesting little lines, and
she's missed.
Next up for me is an artist that is, a lot of people think of when Christmas rolls
around-
Mm
... but is great all year round.
George Michael.
Well, maybe. But-
Boyz II Men?
Nope.
Okay.
But to me, any time of year is great for the great Nat King Cole, but especially
fall for his ballads-
Mm
... like this great Irving Berlin tune, "What'll I Do?"
This is, I think, 1953, early '50s.
Mm-hmm.
Early '50s.
Ooh.
What'll I do
when you-
Mm
... are far away?
And I'm so blue.
Mm.
What'll I do?
A piano trio without drums. That's already cozy, right?
What'll I do?
I mean, guitar, bass, piano.
Quite possibly the most romantic singer of all time-
Yeah
... along with people like Marvin Gaye-
Yeah
... and Barry White, of course. But like-
Yeah
... just an intense sophistication-
Yeah
... and romanticism about the tone of his voice, his phrasing, the instrumentation,
the arrangements are-
Yeah
... all so beautiful and
warm.
Yeah.
Very, very warm.
Oh, and he played piano, too.
And he played the hell out of the piano.
Great call. Great call. "What'll I Do?" That's a beautiful song, too.
We're going to go in a different direction now, and you want me to tell you what
this is or you want me to surprise you?
Surprise me.
You actually might know this-
Eh, we'll see
... because you're kind of up on stuff. Here we go.
Ooh. Fits the playlist already.
I was trying to find something.
I'm like, "We can't only have vocals, right?"
Mm.
Ooh. We can be modern jazz and cozy at the same time, right?
Yeah, you can.
It's okay.
This is brilliant. What is this?
So this is Aaron Parks.
Oh.
Friend of the show.
Oh, yeah.
Friend of Open Studio.
This is from his new album.
Right.
Yeah, of course.
"Dense Phantasy" with a ph, so it’s phat.
Yeah.
Ben Street on bass, Ben Solomon.
"By All Means," right? The album-
"By All Means." Yeah.
It’s a great album.
Billy Hart. The great Billy Hart on drums.
Yeah.
Ben Solomon.
I got to see this band, I think minus Billy Hart, at the Village Vanguard last
winter, and I'll tell you what, it was cozy.
It was cozy.
Yeah, it was great. When we were up there for the Jazz Congress-
Oh, yeah
... we did our show up there.
Seats were okay.
Okay.
Seats were okay. But I had my son, Ivan, with me-
Yeah
... and really enjoyed the show and got to hang out a little bit with Aaron
afterwards and talk about it.
Nice.
It was fun.
Awesome.
Okay, my next pull, I want to zag.
Okay.
We're going to go away from the jazz for a little bit, and this is from Bon Iver's
legendary first album, For Emma, Forever Ago.
So this whole album, Peter, if you don't know, which maybe you know this about Bon
Iver. You probably do, because I know you're a huge Bon Iver fan.
Probably.
So you probably already know the lore.
I love the way you're like, "If you don't know, ha ha."
For the listener. So Bon Iver is a man, actually.
Not a-
Are we talking about Boney James or Bon Iver? Is this a lady?
Bon Iver, like "good winter"-
Oh, got you
... is an artist-
Bon Iver
... named Justin from Wisconsin.
Oh.
And the lore is he had his heart broken, and he went up to a hunting cabin in the
middle of nowhere in northern Wisconsin-
Mm
... and made this album in the cabin.
This was, I think, early 2010s or late 2000s-
Okay
... where this would've been kind of cool to do.
Yeah.
Still, remote recording wasn’t what it is today-
Right
... where you can do anything from anywhere all the time.
Where it's like, "I'm going to this cabin." "Oh, you're just at the crib.
Got it."
Yeah. This required a little bit more.
But
the whole album is so intimate and cozy, and it's a great artist who had his heart
broken, so that's always good.
Yeah.
This is "re: stacks," like regarding stacks, and this is one of my favorite songs
on this album.
Mm.
This is my excavation to
The day is
coming
on. Everything that happens is from now on.
This is pouring rain. This is
paralyzed
Isn't that great?
Yeah, beautiful.
Isn't that wonderful?
Very cozy.
Very cozy.
Wow.
Yeah, this is an album that kind of, at the time, took the world by storm a little
bit, and even the likes of Peter Gabriel ended up covering
songs off this album-
Mm
... just because the vibe was right.
You know how-
Yeah
... you've had some recordings where it's just like, "I don't know about it.
The vibe is just hitting."
Right. Well, you kind of set me up for the last track.
Talking about the vibes just hitting, right?
That'd be good.
How did we get to the end already?
I know. This is fun.
I don't want to go back outside, man. Come on. I feel so cozy, man.
I don't want to go see the horrible world that's waiting out there.
All right. Okay, let's put another log on the fire.
Oh, this was good. Okay, I feel bad because I got the last track, and I'm going to
totally blow away everything I did and everything you did for cozy level.
Why are you looking at me so sinisterly?
I'm just kidding. You've got a lot of cozy tracks. I'm just saying.
I will say-
This is better than "Here's to Life," this is better than Nat King Cole.
I don't want to say that I started on "Here's to Life" and then we're going to end
on this, but I did. But you had some bangers in there. We all did.
As did you.
Okay, so for the last cozy, for the coziest of cozy,
you know when you're about to play something, even like a chord or a record or say
something to somebody, and right at the last minute you're like, "Wait." In this
case, is this actually cozy? I know it's a great track.
I know we’ve played it on here before.
Oh, let's hear it.
I just had a little bit of doubt creep in as far as the... because I was so cocky
about the coziness.
He’s hedging, everybody.
I'm hedging.
He's backtracking big time.
I'm willingly and openly backtracking. I don't know. You let me know.
If nothing else, it's a great track, but I don't know. I thought it was cozy.
Check it out.
I don't need to listen.
I feel cozy, though.
It's cozy.
I feel shivers all up and down.
I knew all this was cozy. It's later on I'm a little worried.
That's cozy.
It is cozy.
There’ll be no darkness tonight. Baby, your love will shine
Ooh.
bright in the night.
Cozy backgrounds, right?
Just put your trust in my heart and know that we’ll never part.
Drums playing cozily. Cozy drums.
This is definitely cozy.
Okay.
This fits the vibe.
I'm thinking ahead two minutes.
Girl
Let's go.
You're the only wonder in this world to me
Horns cozy?
I don’t think... Cozy doesn’t mean everything has to be at a whisper.
Not at all.
This is all cool.
So listen to my heart. Lay your body close to mine. Let me
fill you with emotion.
Lyrics, cozy AF
I can make you feel all right.
And baby, through the years
Cozy alive melodies.
love will always stay, so I promise you tonight
Cozy harmony
that you will always be the lady in my life.
Cozy segue. Back to the intro? Come on. It's cozy.
Cozy bridge?
All right, you get one more. I think between the two of us, we've said cozy 80
times each.
Well, at least I didn't say pumpkin spice lattes as much as you did.
I said PSL.
That's worse.
That's worse.
That's worse.
All right, this was fun, Peter.
This was good.
Hey-
Happy autumn.
Yeah, definitely happy autumn. Put in the comments-
I love how we were like, "Welcome to autumn," but everything we talked about was
winter.
We're like, "It's December, you're at the Vanguard."
Nobody ever said we were good at our jobs.
Put in the comments what your favorite cozy tracks are. I know we’ve missed so much.
We could've put that whole John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman album on there.
Oh, my God.
We didn’t have any Chet Baker on there.
John Coltrane’s "Ballads." Oh, my God.
Yeah, I mean, Carole King could've gone-
Oh, my God
... the whole album.
You could do Fleetwood Mac.
Dude.
Yeah.
All right, put in the comments what we missed.
Miles Davis?
Yeah. It's not possible.
Ooh.
All right, till next time.
You'll hear it.
I'll have you gonna stay Because you will always be The lady in my
life Stay
with me