Howard Wiley's Deep Dive on Bay Area Jazz | Discogs Listening Room

“Everyone calls New York the jazz mecca, but for me, it’s the Bay Area,” says saxophonist Howard Wiley. A prodigy of the San Francisco jazz scene, Wiley came up through the Grammy All-American Jazz Band and Thelonious Monk Institute, studied with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, and graduated from Berklee College of Music with honors. Since then, he’s recorded and performed with legends like Lauryn Hill, Sheila E., Cory Henry, and Christian McBride, while touring the world as both collaborator and solo artist. But no matter where he goes, Wiley always returns to the Bay — and the records that shaped its iconic sound. Watch as Howard drops the needle on the albums that inspire him in the Discogs Listening Room: Herbie Hancock 'Head Hunters': https://www.discogs.com/release/7495983-Herbie-Hancock-Head-Hunters Thelonious Monk Quartet Plus Two 'Live At The Blackhawk': https://www.discogs.com/release/7472533-Thelonious-Monk-Quartet-Plus-Two-At-The-Blackhawk Mulgrew Miller 'The Countdown': https://www.discogs.com/release/1744685-Mulgrew-Miller-The-Countdown Miles Davis 'In Person Friday And Saturday Nights At The Blackhawk': https://www.discogs.com/release/1773125-Miles-Davis-In-Person-Friday-And-Saturday-Nights-At-The-Blackhawk-San-Francisco Howard Wiley on Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/3047561-Howard-Wiley For this edition of the Discogs Listening Room, the following equipment was used: AlphaTheta Euphonia 4-Channel Rotary Mixer, Pioneer DJ PLX-1000 Turntable, and @Ortofonofficial cartridge (https://ortofon.com/products/concorde-music-blue) Hosted by Gabriel Lopez of @kexp 01:00 How the Bay Area saved Herbie Hancock's career 05:00 Howard's First Time Hearing "Watermelon Man" 05:45 That Creative Thing About the Bay Area 07:33 The Importance of the Blackhawk in San Francisco 10:20 West Coast legend Billy Higgins and the swing he created 14:30 Have you ever been to New York and tried to order a kale salad? 17:00 Mulgrew Miller's School of the Bay Area Streets 20:50 The Influence of The Newport Rebels 22:50 When you first hear it, you know exactly where you were. -- Unlock the ultimate record collecting experience: https://www.discogs.com/about/get-started/ SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/discogs Check us on Social @Discogs: Follow Discogs on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discogs Follow Discogs on X: https://twitter.com/discogs Follow Discogs on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discogs Follow Discogs on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@discogs Follow Discogs on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/discogsofficial.bsky.social #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity