Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Norah Jones and today I'm playing along with
Speaker 1: Robert glasper part one.
Speaker 2: I'm just playing lone Wezy, I'm just playing in lone wey.
Speaker 1: Hi, welcome to the show. I'm Norah Jones and with
Speaker 1: me as always. Hi, Sarah Oda, It's me Sarah Oda. Hi,
Speaker 1: Sarah Hi ah Hi.
Speaker 3: This episode makes us both sigh at the same time.
Speaker 1: This was so much fun. Also, this episode we recorded
Speaker 1: as part of a trip to la we went.
Speaker 3: On together, and it was definitely a highlight of our trip.
Speaker 1: It was such a highlight. And also it was such
Speaker 1: a fun trip and crazy and now I'm having memories
Speaker 1: of our trip just thinking about this episode. In that day,
Speaker 1: after we were done with this episode with Robert, we
Speaker 1: went and had dinner and we were just like, we
Speaker 1: stuffed our face so pasta. We were so happily, we
Speaker 1: were high. We were kind of high on on.
Speaker 3: Podcasts and pasta.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Basically, our guest today is a pianist, songwriter, producer, composer,
Speaker 3: range ordinaire all around incredibly talented human Robert Glasper Yay.
Speaker 1: He is also quite a special personality.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's very uplifting. He like just listening to him
Speaker 3: talk make I feel.
Speaker 1: He makes me happy. Yes, just being around him and
Speaker 1: his energy is beautiful, it's contagious. He's he's a he's
Speaker 1: one of those good humans that you know, you just
Speaker 1: are happy to be around.
Speaker 3: Yes, he walks in the room and everybody's just feeling
Speaker 3: a little bit better, a lot, a bit better.
Speaker 1: A lot better. He's so kind. And we start off
Speaker 1: this episode talking about it, and we'll talk about it
Speaker 1: a lot, I think. But I actually met Robert for
Speaker 1: the first time when I was fifteen years old in Denton,
Speaker 1: Texas at Jazz Camp, Jazz.
Speaker 3: Summer Camp, Jazz Camp at Jazz Camp.
Speaker 1: Have a story a podcast. I do have a story
Speaker 1: like that, but not for the podcast. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: was so awesome thinking about knowing Robert at that time
Speaker 1: and we were just babies, you know, and it's just
Speaker 1: so sweet. And we've we've actually, you know, seen each
Speaker 1: other over the years. We've recorded a song together, I've
Speaker 1: sat in with him a couple of times at shows,
Speaker 1: but we've never gotten to sit down and hang like this.
Speaker 1: So this is this was such a special thing for me.
Speaker 3: This episode felt like a high school reunion in a bottle,
Speaker 3: you know, just like just hearing all the names of
Speaker 3: people that you both grew up with and were in
Speaker 3: spy by people who were just you know, a couple
Speaker 3: of years older than you, but you looked up to.
Speaker 3: And I feel like maybe really set the foundation for
Speaker 3: the path that you ended up being on. And even
Speaker 3: though you both you and Robert had different paths, you
Speaker 3: crossed paths and you know, kind of connected in different ways.
Speaker 3: It's it's so fun to hear like the journey that
Speaker 3: he's been on since then.
Speaker 1: He's in, his journey has been incredible. And it's definitely
Speaker 1: a shout out episode. So I think we have to
Speaker 1: tag everybody that's in this episode.
Speaker 5: Sohow we will?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's there must be like one hundred hundred names,
Speaker 1: so many names talk about. We talk about a lot
Speaker 1: of special people in this episode.
Speaker 3: So many connections. I mean, I feel like this episode
Speaker 3: was like just longing to happen, you know, and then
Speaker 3: when you started playing music, it felt like you could
Speaker 3: just play a hundred songs and not run out. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish, I wish we had more time, but
Speaker 1: this was a long episode, so we decided to make
Speaker 1: it a two parter.
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you're gonna go low.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's start it. So we decided to make it.
Speaker 5: A two part.
Speaker 3: Should like an echo?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, and we should keep this part into
Speaker 1: no this is this is not cool? Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: So please enjoy this episode. It's a little shorter than
Speaker 1: normal because it's going to be a two parter overaller
Speaker 1: but worth it. Worth it, and then be sure to
Speaker 1: tune in again for the second part when it comes out.
Speaker 1: And I hope you enjoy. Please go see Robert Glasper
Speaker 1: play wherever he is playing. You will love the show.
Speaker 1: He's got Obtoberfest coming up in New York City at
Speaker 1: the Blue Note in October. I think yep.
Speaker 3: He does his like month long residency there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's pretty so, yeah it does. It's a tiny, tiny club.
Speaker 1: I'm hopefully going to sit in on one of the shows.
Speaker 1: Don't know which one, but.
Speaker 3: And congratulations to Robert for winning his why are.
Speaker 1: You yelling all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, No, congratulations to Robert for winning his fifth Grammy
Speaker 3: just this year for Best R and B Album Black
Speaker 3: Radio three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. Enjoy our episode. Hope you enjoyed the
Speaker 1: episode with Robert Klasper. I'm excited.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, look at us. We're here. We are here.
Speaker 1: It's you know, Oh, we're on.
Speaker 5: Oh, we're on.
Speaker 1: It's only taken us how many years to actually play
Speaker 1: music together together.
Speaker 5: In the same room.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean remember when I first I don't know
Speaker 6: if you remember, because okay, for those of you don't know,
Speaker 6: we met a jazz camp.
Speaker 5: I don't know where I'm looking.
Speaker 1: Oh, you don't have to look anywhere.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we met a jazz camp. We're both in
Speaker 6: like eleventh grade or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're fifteen or sixty fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 6: The jazz camp at Villeville in Dnville, Danville.
Speaker 1: Denton, Texas, Denton, Texas and Texas.
Speaker 6: You and T Denton, Texas U and T University of
Speaker 6: North Texas. That's right, that's right, in a jazz camp.
Speaker 6: After that jazz camp, the next time I saw you
Speaker 6: was at the new school.
Speaker 5: You were in the practice room, practicing.
Speaker 1: I've heard you tell the story.
Speaker 6: And she was just playing and I walked by, and
Speaker 6: I was like, because I haven't seen her at that
Speaker 6: point in probably like three years or something forty years, Yeah, like, what.
Speaker 5: Are you doing here?
Speaker 6: You're like Oh, my friend let me in the practice
Speaker 6: room so I could probably working on a demo. And
Speaker 6: then after that day, next time I saw you was
Speaker 6: on the Grammy's holding all the Grammys.
Speaker 5: I was like, you went from the I'm.
Speaker 6: Working on the demo to all these Grammies and I
Speaker 6: was like, oh my god, it's crazy. And then after that,
Speaker 6: I remember each time I saw you after that, I
Speaker 6: did this thing with the Roots at Radio City Music.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 1: I was there, Yeah, and me and you.
Speaker 6: Were both sitting on the on the side of Questlove.
Speaker 6: This is when he was really big. We sat there
Speaker 6: for an hour, probably didn't see each other because that
Speaker 6: was on the right side of him. You were on
Speaker 6: the left side of him, and we both reached for
Speaker 6: like ice or some chips. That's literally what happened. We're
Speaker 6: both like, We're both like it was crazy, and my
Speaker 6: Maria was in the middle.
Speaker 1: Like you that's so funny.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, but man, good times and congratulations on
Speaker 6: so many things.
Speaker 1: And congratulations you just want to grabby. Was that yesterday
Speaker 1: or the day before.
Speaker 5: Maybe before yesterday?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I was there in the audience. I
Speaker 1: watched you go up. I was so stoked and you
Speaker 1: were like my pants just fell down.
Speaker 6: I literally the morning of I realized that my pants
Speaker 6: I lost more weight.
Speaker 5: I didn't realize I lost weight, but apparently I lost weight.
Speaker 1: It was an old tux.
Speaker 5: It was an old.
Speaker 6: Tux, and so I lost weight. And I didn't try
Speaker 6: it on till the morning of the thing. I was like,
Speaker 6: I'll be fine. Yeah, and I was like, oh snap.
Speaker 6: So we put like safety pins and it was fine.
Speaker 6: I was like, okay, cool, and I wore my shirt
Speaker 6: out anyway. It was I was kind of being chilled, like,
Speaker 6: you know, I had cool sneakers and a cool shirt,
Speaker 6: you know whatever. As soon as they called my name,
Speaker 6: I was like, oh snap, and I jumped up, and
Speaker 6: I think when I jumped, the safety pins just gave out.
Speaker 6: And I started running down the aisle. I felt my
Speaker 6: pants falling down. I was like, oh snap, I gotta
Speaker 6: hold my pants up. So I literally the whole time
Speaker 6: after we after won Grammar did the speech and everything.
Speaker 6: The whole night at the Grammys, I had to walk
Speaker 6: with my hand in my pocket just to.
Speaker 1: Hold them up. Oh my god, You're like way too
Speaker 1: cool for everybody.
Speaker 5: Somebody want to give me that.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's too funny your handsl fall down.
Speaker 1: Did you at least have good looking underwear on?
Speaker 5: I think I did, okay, just in case, But it was.
Speaker 1: It was so exciting though. I was so happy. It's
Speaker 1: so sweet to me to know you from that age
Speaker 1: and to see you go up there and accept an
Speaker 1: award and to see your show the other night.
Speaker 5: So dope.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was so stoked. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I I felt very awkward because I sometimes I don't
Speaker 1: know what to do with my hands when I'm not playing.
Speaker 1: I'm just not used to it anymore, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 5: Exactly?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but god, I love hearing you play with Christen,
Speaker 1: Christadie Days, Chris, Dave and Derek holy crap, Derek Hodge.
Speaker 5: Literally my band is my favorite musicians.
Speaker 1: It's so great now. It's such a great feeling to
Speaker 1: feel like that. How long have you played with him?
Speaker 1: Are they from Houston?
Speaker 5: No? Well, christ is from Houston. He is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he went to how he went to my high school,
Speaker 6: high school performing arts, but he went like he graduated
Speaker 6: like he's a little older, a little older. I think
Speaker 6: he graduated ninety two, okay, and not graduated ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're the same age.
Speaker 5: We're the same age. Yeah, so we went to So
Speaker 5: you went to book T right.
Speaker 1: I went to the Performing Arts in Dallas. Yeah, Bookert.
Speaker 5: So I have a lot of friends I went there.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're like parallel sister schools.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, because you had.
Speaker 1: Erica yeah, Roy Hargrove.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I went to school with Beyonce.
Speaker 1: And wait, she went there. Yeah I didn't know that.
Speaker 6: Yeah she went yeah, yeah her ninth her freshman year.
Speaker 6: I was a senior, she was a freshman.
Speaker 1: I actually did not know that.
Speaker 6: Desney's child the next year, the Destiny's Child did the
Speaker 6: Super Bowl and they never came back.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: They home schooled after.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I knew she was from Houston, but I had no
Speaker 1: idea she went to the.
Speaker 6: Performing Like literally, my little sister, I remember salons come
Speaker 6: up to the schools running, give me a hug Like
Speaker 6: that was like little sisters, so sweet. So seeing it's crazy,
Speaker 6: like yeah, from high school, you and Beyonce, like it's
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, Like it's it's it's crazy
Speaker 6: to see so many friends like blow all the way
Speaker 6: up in the world.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, well it's the same thing when I'm watching
Speaker 1: you and it's like, I'm so proud, and I just
Speaker 1: remember being at that jazz camp and being like one
Speaker 1: of two girls or something, and it's like all the
Speaker 1: dudes and you know, feeling like a door. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody was nice, but like, I don't feel like we've
Speaker 1: ever sat in a room and talked without a bunch
Speaker 1: of people around. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, it's really special.
Speaker 5: Yeah definitely Texas. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Dang, it's really special. I'm so happy he did this.
Speaker 1: I only met him once. Yeah, he was older, you know,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't there when I got to the school.
Speaker 1: I only got to meet him once. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: used to like I was obsessed with this record of
Speaker 1: his in high school and I learned a lot from listening.
Speaker 8: Of course.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's the person when people ask me, he's
Speaker 6: one of my biggest influence influences because he came to
Speaker 6: my high school to do a clinic and that was
Speaker 6: my first time seeing a young jazz band all black
Speaker 6: wearing stuff I was wearing.
Speaker 5: They were wearing jeans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they weren't like wearing suits.
Speaker 5: They weren't suits.
Speaker 6: That's the first time I saw it, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 6: I can be that because he looked like me.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 6: Most of the time jazz musicians like like, I remember
Speaker 6: I used to go to I used to go to UH.
Speaker 6: I used to play with the Winton when I was
Speaker 6: in college and we used to go to schools and play.
Speaker 6: And I would always wear like dress and the wind
Speaker 6: and win and then would wear the suits like how
Speaker 6: do you But after the show, you know, all the
Speaker 6: kids would run and make a.
Speaker 5: Line to talk to me because of your clothes.
Speaker 6: Because I look like that, you know, because that's not
Speaker 6: put it to two and two together too, like, oh man,
Speaker 6: that makes sense because you look you want to be
Speaker 6: what you see, what looks familiar, like it's a reachable goal,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. Like and it's like, yo,
Speaker 6: that makes sense if I look like it's reachable to you,
Speaker 6: like Roy did to me. I was like, oh man,
Speaker 6: I could do that. I could play jazz. It's still
Speaker 6: we're sneakers and jeans.
Speaker 1: I don't know that.
Speaker 5: You know, it's so cool.
Speaker 6: You know so that he really inspired me with that,
Speaker 6: and then he took me on my first world tour.
Speaker 6: You know it was Urge Factor, his band arch Factor.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, I wish I could have seen that.
Speaker 5: So I was. I was a freshman in with that
Speaker 5: freshman in high school, in college college. Yeah, freshman in college. Yeah.
Speaker 6: He took me up from on the world tour and
Speaker 6: the first shows in Houston.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, my mom, God bless her soul. My mom.
Speaker 6: Walked up to the front of the stage while Roy
Speaker 6: is playing the said give my baby a solo. I
Speaker 6: swear to guy. The whole band saw everybody die left Roy.
Speaker 6: He was like, hey, you heard your it was a song,
Speaker 6: don't leave a solo.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, Mom, what are you doing during the song,
Speaker 1: during the during the song the first song.
Speaker 5: Absolutely no, but that that was my mom though, that
Speaker 5: was that was that was her.
Speaker 1: Oh that's very sweet. Did you did you grow up
Speaker 1: in church?
Speaker 5: I grew up in church. Yep.
Speaker 6: I grew up my first time playing in church with
Speaker 6: a small church and if it was somebody's birthday or
Speaker 6: birthday month, the preacher will let me come up and
Speaker 6: play Happy Birthday on the piano. And I learned that
Speaker 6: with literally one finger Happy Birthday at eleven and then.
Speaker 5: Throughout the years.
Speaker 6: Because my mother was a minister of music at the church,
Speaker 6: so yeah, she was the choir director and everything. So
Speaker 6: but during the week she sang in clubs and you know,
Speaker 6: did like duo, piano, piano, voice, jazz standard stuff.
Speaker 1: And she's singing clubs doing jazz, yeah.
Speaker 6: Jazz and Top forty and Broadway. She loved Liza Minelli
Speaker 6: and it's amazing. I know, more Broadway things than ship
Speaker 6: that's a black man. It's weird, yeah for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So yeah, so just like all kinds of music, you know,
Speaker 6: coming up. But I learned how to play literally in church.
Speaker 6: They had like a broke organ in the corner. So
Speaker 6: my mom was conducting the service. I was just learning
Speaker 6: on that organ in the corner. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 6: then I just got good just by that.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's similar to so many musicians I
Speaker 1: know growing up and going to being at that school
Speaker 1: in Dallas.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, playing in church. I learned to sing in church
Speaker 1: actually really yeah, but you know it was more Latin
Speaker 1: kind of hymns and stuff.
Speaker 5: Gotcha. The Catholic No, it wasn't, but the.
Speaker 1: Choir director used to be Catholic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I played in the Catholic church too. Every
Speaker 6: so on Saturdays, I played for a seven day Vanish church.
Speaker 6: On Sunday. Early morning, I played at the Catholic church. Wow,
Speaker 6: Sunday at eleven o'clock, I played at the Baptist church.
Speaker 1: That's the best practice.
Speaker 6: So every for the last two years of my life,
Speaker 6: I played at three different churches three days a week.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, you know.
Speaker 6: And and all those churches had choir rehearsal, yeah during
Speaker 6: the week, so I was in church all the time.
Speaker 1: But that's such a great gig, and I.
Speaker 5: Was bollowing out of control. I at that dough, that
Speaker 5: church dough.
Speaker 1: Well, those church gise.
Speaker 6: I know a lot of people that no church gise
Speaker 6: play extremely well now, especially now now that it's cool
Speaker 6: to be a touring musician and still have your church gig.
Speaker 6: And now the pastors and stuff, they're like, yeah, my my,
Speaker 6: my ms directors on tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're cool letting out.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Before I did it too early, Like I started when
Speaker 6: I got to Houston. When I got to New York
Speaker 6: from Houston, my pastor in Houston knew a pastor in Harlem,
Speaker 6: so I had a church gig immediately. And so when
Speaker 6: I started playing there, everything was fine. But six months
Speaker 6: in I started my friend Balau singer Ballow. We met
Speaker 6: at college and we started working on his album. And
Speaker 6: then like a year later he started touring and I
Speaker 6: was going on tour and with him, and.
Speaker 5: Like Christian McBride, I was on tour with and.
Speaker 6: Roy and Roy and back then it wasn't cool yet.
Speaker 6: It wasn't totally cool yet. They were like, you gotta
Speaker 6: make a decision. You got to be here or go
Speaker 6: on tour. Yeah, well, I love you God.
Speaker 1: But uh, I love you God, but I'm going on tour.
Speaker 5: I got to be out man. Yeah.
Speaker 6: But now, like that's the thing everybody holds onto their church,
Speaker 6: get subbered out till they get home.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it's it's big money there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you want to try a song?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 1: Do you want to try that one since it's fresh,
Speaker 1: or do you want to start with like let it
Speaker 1: ride or something? What you want to do, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: We'll try since it's fresh. Yeah, do it, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Well, So you did this on a live sort of
Speaker 1: a live covers album.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I did it at uh the Capitol Building.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, I did it. And so what I
Speaker 6: did was I had a bunch of couches brought into
Speaker 6: the studio and I made it like a little club.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 6: And I had a full bar and had a bartender,
Speaker 6: So I made the studio like a club.
Speaker 5: I got that from Cannon by Idley, Oh yeah, he
Speaker 5: did that.
Speaker 1: Studio's a lot of live albums.
Speaker 6: You hear some of those, specially back then. They were
Speaker 6: actually in the studio because you want the live element,
Speaker 6: but you don't want the sound of a live element sound,
Speaker 6: So you get the best of both worlds by just doing.
Speaker 5: It in the stand.
Speaker 1: That's idea.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I had people come invite only at Couches and
Speaker 6: like you know, like I said, a full bar, boom, boom, boom,
Speaker 6: and we just played two.
Speaker 5: Sets a night like a show, like a like a
Speaker 5: gig man.
Speaker 6: So I did two sets boom boom, and then the
Speaker 6: next day I did two more sets, and then I
Speaker 6: just chose the best from each, you know, boom, and
Speaker 6: that's that was the record. Yeah, you know, so it's
Speaker 6: live live at Capital.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 6: Yeah. We did the reconder one of my favorite Radiohead tunes.
Speaker 1: It is from in Rainbows, right, is it from Rainbows?
Speaker 5: And I haven't played this since we recorded it.
Speaker 1: I've never I've never done it, She's.
Speaker 5: Never done it. So this is going to be fun.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. God, this is a good song.
Speaker 5: Oh man, it's so good.
Speaker 1: And I can I can read the lyrics now, lyrics
Speaker 1: it's hard to understand.
Speaker 6: Sometimes given up on any lyric that James Brown, DeAngelo,
Speaker 6: Tom Yorke, you can go down the list. I don't
Speaker 6: know what y'all saying, but y'all are amazing. But I've
Speaker 6: never known anything you've ever said.
Speaker 1: But then when you actually read it and they're good,
Speaker 1: it's like, wow, exactly.
Speaker 6: Exactly, exactly exactly, it's a whole another thing on top.
Speaker 1: Now my heart's beating fast.
Speaker 5: You don't be really dope. I'm gonna try to maybe
Speaker 5: keep a beat. What you know what I'm saying, mouth beats.
Speaker 5: I like it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: The whole time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know about the whole time because in
Speaker 6: the middle of it kind of breaks up, it does
Speaker 6: a thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but then when it goes back.
Speaker 1: I'm excited, you know what I mean. You know what
Speaker 1: I was thinking when I was listening to this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to hear a gospel choir saying.
Speaker 5: This, oh absolutely, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Well it's got all those choral parts. But then like
Speaker 1: to have just the vibe a little different that absolutely
Speaker 1: so beautiful. Absolutely do you want to do you have?
Speaker 6: I don't know if I can. My breathing is going
Speaker 6: to work for that might pass out. I just did
Speaker 6: it for ten seconds just now.
Speaker 1: I was like, well that sounded like, let's not do this.
Speaker 5: We have it. Yeah, we got it. We got it
Speaker 5: for sure, for sure.
Speaker 9: I cannot.
Speaker 10: You can't take it.
Speaker 7: With you.
Speaker 4: Day shan four.
Speaker 5: You'll play.
Speaker 10: Oh oh you.
Speaker 8: To blame.
Speaker 10: For paid her sweet.
Speaker 11: Disturb day.
Speaker 10: Let's speak it's name. Oh daddy came.
Speaker 7: To oh you.
Speaker 4: Mad because.
Speaker 8: We said.
Speaker 4: Parade like grapples.
Speaker 7: A lot of blads.
Speaker 11: Shoot oh because.
Speaker 10: We said.
Speaker 11: Play like grapple, lot of blad.
Speaker 10: O show they cannot jaw it standing a little case
Speaker 10: to omn.
Speaker 7: S mm h.
Speaker 9: Smoo.
Speaker 1: I mean it was kind of cool.
Speaker 5: It was cool. I messed up once or twice, but
Speaker 5: doesn't matter. The vibe was there.
Speaker 1: I love was there. I love that, I love I
Speaker 1: love you. Play.
Speaker 5: It feels so good, it does.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like we're family.
Speaker 5: We kind of are, haven't said we haven't just spent
Speaker 5: time together, but.
Speaker 1: Cousins like, yeah, we're like cousins who were But yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah your show the other night, I felt that real
Speaker 1: sense of family. Also, just everyone there too, your whole
Speaker 1: crew is like a family.
Speaker 5: I don't, I don't. I don't do good with assholes.
Speaker 1: I know you're good. You've cultivated like this beautiful community.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I mean we're in a business where you know,
Speaker 6: you run across people who just aren't cool and not
Speaker 6: you know, but there you have to deal with them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those are the people you didn't see. They were
Speaker 5: in another section.
Speaker 1: I did not see those.
Speaker 5: So far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved it, I guess. I mean so many
Speaker 1: people too that felt like family. Like I met Leilah halfaway, No,
Speaker 1: I've never met her before, and she felt like family.
Speaker 1: I mean it's crazy. Absolutely, it's just so nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you introduced me to Jillie old wife, which
Speaker 1: was pretty freaking alsome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Ercle came to mind. I had Ercle and I
Speaker 6: had thel Hux.
Speaker 1: Yes, you did. It was amazing. It was next to
Speaker 1: our generation was just dying.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, yeah, it was so sweet.
Speaker 5: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cool your show is cool because you do
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. Yeah, And I didn't realize
Speaker 1: you sang so much.
Speaker 5: I just started because you didn't.
Speaker 1: Sing last time I saw you. No, No, that's a
Speaker 1: new thing.
Speaker 6: This is new because what happened was last year I
Speaker 6: was on tour and my vocalist at the time, uh
Speaker 6: fir my boyfriend, he got stripped through. It was the
Speaker 6: last week, the last end of the tour. I was
Speaker 6: at the Blue Note. We had a week and he
Speaker 6: got stripped through in the middle of the week and
Speaker 6: so he was done, and I was like, man, we
Speaker 6: were doing black radio songs. I was like, man, I
Speaker 6: gotta try to sing one of these songs.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 6: I was like, people know I'm not a singer, so
Speaker 6: it's not gonna take me too seriously. It's just for
Speaker 6: the vibe.
Speaker 5: So that's why I started, like, let me try one,
Speaker 5: and it worked out that night. I was like, maybe
Speaker 5: the next thing I'll try to that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So then I just started kind of doing it more
Speaker 6: and more because I figured the more I just get
Speaker 6: used to it, the better i'll get, you know. And
Speaker 6: I have like pedal stuff and stuff from tuning and
Speaker 6: stuff and I'm still starting to figure like an figuration
Speaker 6: out what may work the best. But the more I
Speaker 6: do it, the better I think, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: just for something different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have a cool effect on your voice.
Speaker 6: Yeah, put that on there and trying to, you know,
Speaker 6: make it interesting at some point because I'm not a singer,
Speaker 6: so you're not you know, you don't want to hear
Speaker 6: my tone?
Speaker 1: No, but you're not not a singer. I mean you
Speaker 1: sounded you grew up singing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but in church. I mean I just want to
Speaker 5: sound decent for the VI. That's it. Decent and vibe it's.
Speaker 1: Great and you get them out. But I think he
Speaker 1: sounded great. It was really fun. I was like, oh crap,
Speaker 1: should I have him sing something? If you want to
Speaker 1: say something?
Speaker 6: Yeah you use that, Yeah, yeah, have a little and
Speaker 6: yeah absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: Actually no, let's go back. Okay you wrote the song
Speaker 1: and saying with Tip.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, life is better, life is better?
Speaker 1: Yes, you know I actually didn't know that right until recently.
Speaker 5: Until recently.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so q Tip was working on his album
Speaker 6: The Renaissance, and I was there in the studio a
Speaker 6: lot doing some of the joints and blah, blah blah.
Speaker 6: And then I was like sitting there trying out something,
Speaker 6: trying not to key. I might've been getting sound something,
Speaker 6: and I started playing the what became Life Is Better.
Speaker 5: He was like what's that? And I was like, I
Speaker 5: don't know. Just He's like, keep going, keep going.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 6: So then we kind of cultivated and made it the thing,
Speaker 6: and I had to leave town the next morning and
Speaker 6: we were sitting me and him were sitting around.
Speaker 5: He was like, oh, what should we deal with this?
Speaker 5: And I was like, you should be like a singer
Speaker 5: to sing a hook on it. And I was like,
Speaker 5: Norah Jones.
Speaker 1: You said it.
Speaker 5: I said it.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you, I said.
Speaker 5: I was like, I can hear Noura on this. That
Speaker 5: would be dope.
Speaker 6: He's like, ah yeah, nahahs So he's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: that'd be dope. And then I got on the plane
Speaker 6: and I think I went on tour or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you weren't there.
Speaker 6: I wasn't there. Then he hit me like yeah, no,
Speaker 6: I came through and killed it, and I was like, oh, absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 6: that's such a dope joint.
Speaker 5: He's done. It's so cool man, so good. It's really
Speaker 5: dope joint.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I went in and I hadn't met
Speaker 1: him before.
Speaker 5: Oh really no, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I was excited. I was a little nervous, but
Speaker 1: also I was kind of in those days. I was
Speaker 1: super oblivious, like I was almost too oblivious to be
Speaker 1: nervous a lot. And he had me sing this part
Speaker 1: and he's like that fel but it was kind of
Speaker 1: high for me. And I remember I said to him,
Speaker 1: was like, it's a little high. I don't know, Kenna.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, it sounds great, just do it. It
Speaker 1: was a really good lesson and don't don't pretend like
Speaker 1: you can't do something until you go for it. Actually,
Speaker 1: and it kind of made me learn that I could
Speaker 1: sing Hi. It's weird.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: He made me play organ on not that song, but
Speaker 6: the U song. I don't play organ. I'm not an
Speaker 6: organ player. That's a different instrument. It is a whole different.
Speaker 1: My husband's a good organ player. He learned playing in
Speaker 1: a church.
Speaker 6: There you go exactly. I learned playing at church. But
Speaker 6: it was a broke organ, a cheap, small one, so
Speaker 6: it's not even the real one.
Speaker 1: It didn't take.
Speaker 5: It didn't take at all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So that song you is the first recording of
Speaker 6: me playing an organ on any record. Oh cool, on
Speaker 6: a real record, you know. And I told him I
Speaker 6: didn't want to. I said, I know organists. Let me
Speaker 6: let me call my boy I know, I know Cory Henry.
Speaker 5: Let me call him. You know, yeah, I know guys
Speaker 5: that are great. You know. He was like, Noah, you
Speaker 5: can do it. Just just do it.
Speaker 1: Exactly what happened to me.
Speaker 6: That's why I brought it up, because I was like,
Speaker 6: he made me. He literally was like, you could do it,
Speaker 6: just do it. You can play orgon just play it.
Speaker 1: That's why he's such a great producer.
Speaker 6: Exactly exactly he saw what he saw our limitations, what
Speaker 6: we thought were limitations.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's not a limitation.
Speaker 1: But that's the best.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I was like, okay, so I played organ in
Speaker 6: that song. I was like, Oh, I did do it.
Speaker 1: That is so cool. I want to do this cutube song?
Speaker 5: Sure? What?
Speaker 6: Hey? What?
Speaker 1: What what are these chords?
Speaker 5: Because I know, I just I had to relearn them today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I actually I've always been like.
Speaker 6: What is this because that happens to me. I'm so
Speaker 6: much like that. I do sound checks or something and
Speaker 6: they'll be like what's that? And I'm like, I don't know, yeah,
Speaker 6: and they'll recorded and loop it and I never play
Speaker 6: it again.
Speaker 5: Then I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: But it's so nice. Your hands just go to a shape.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I think the vibe is more like.
Speaker 6: So, I think it's like G major B minor passing
Speaker 6: chord to C major to C sharp minor nine mm hmm. Yeah,
Speaker 6: That's what I'm getting with the vibe is.
Speaker 1: But it's it's fluid.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Days, food great, but now comes in.
Speaker 7: These fun.
Speaker 8: Hip hop is.
Speaker 1: Flat again and it's burying.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna bang it for you.
Speaker 13: Don't stop this feeling a fit. I just want to
Speaker 13: around all day and feel the breeze will still my needs.
Speaker 13: I'm so into a rich history me tell me stories
Speaker 13: and take.
Speaker 12: Me away, Come and take me, Come and take me
Speaker 12: with you. Life fits better now that now that I funny.
Speaker 12: That feels better now that now that I found life.
Speaker 12: It's better now that now that I found you. Life
Speaker 12: things better now now that I found you. Life its
Speaker 12: better now there now that I found you, life is
Speaker 12: better now that now that I found you, life is better.
Speaker 8: Life is bitter.
Speaker 10: Live is betterf you.
Speaker 13: Live is Beter, I feckspara.
Speaker 12: Now that well that I found you, I feel it's better.
Speaker 11: Spen you.
Speaker 12: Now that I found you lasts better.
Speaker 9: Who who.
Speaker 1: Oh, Yeah, I love that song.
Speaker 5: It's a good song.
Speaker 1: It's a great song.
Speaker 5: And his verses are they're great.
Speaker 6: It's so it's so relevant because it's now, it's the
Speaker 6: fiftieth a University of hip Hop too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was funny watching the other night at the
Speaker 1: Grammys watching.
Speaker 5: That whole thing. Amazing, it was awesome.
Speaker 6: It was amazing, And and Q Tip shouted out a
Speaker 6: lot of those guys that are on the stage. She
Speaker 6: shouted out so many rappers in that song.
Speaker 1: I kept waiting for him to come out, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was hoping to be there, but yeah, he does
Speaker 1: that song is like, I love all of that that
Speaker 1: he he did that.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, it's really thoughtful and it is you have to really,
Speaker 6: you know, take your time and really figure that out
Speaker 6: because the history of hip hop is a lot of people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you can't leave out this person. You can
Speaker 5: have that person without this person, you can have that.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, it's tricky. It's a slippery slip.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Yeah, that's so funny. I haven't played
Speaker 6: that song since it recorded.
Speaker 1: Me neither me neither. I never got to play it
Speaker 1: with him do.
Speaker 5: A video too.
Speaker 1: We did a video, right, Actually, that's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite videos.
Speaker 5: I've ever done.
Speaker 1: I remember I got there and I think I was
Speaker 1: really uptight with the director, and I think it was
Speaker 1: kind of not I wasn't like a bitch, but I
Speaker 1: think I was just like nervous and tight, and I
Speaker 1: was worried about how I looked, and I didn't know
Speaker 1: that they were going to blow it out like that
Speaker 1: and it looks so cool, like my makeup didn't matter
Speaker 1: because they made it black and white.
Speaker 5: And yeah, way yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And he was late and I was like where is he? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then we had so much fun. We shot it
Speaker 1: in like twenty minutes. Really yeah, it was like very quick.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but we never got to sing it together.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I did a video for a song called getting Up
Speaker 6: on that same album. Oh yeah, but that's why I
Speaker 6: took my eye eyebrow ring out. I had an eyebrow
Speaker 6: ring And when you watch the getting Up video, I'm
Speaker 6: the first thing you see, like it comes on is
Speaker 6: my face right here and it pans out and I'm
Speaker 6: playing piano. But it was like a time period kind
Speaker 6: of vibed to my eyebrow ring. They didn't like, they
Speaker 6: didn't fit the vibe. They told me to take it out.
Speaker 6: I couldn't put it back in.
Speaker 1: After its you could never get it back in.
Speaker 5: I could never get it back in.
Speaker 1: So ower basically, I'm kind.
Speaker 6: Of glad because you know, I had it too long.
Speaker 6: I shouldn't need to be out anywhere.
Speaker 1: It was a little dated as it was.
Speaker 5: It was exactly for sure, you had.
Speaker 1: Long hair, then you had long drugs.
Speaker 5: You have dreads. Yeah, and.
Speaker 6: When I did, I played her Tatum in this Aretha
Speaker 6: Franklin documentary. Cool, that's the geographics genius. Okay, they just
Speaker 6: stay on different artists and then went for the Franklin.
Speaker 6: So this is one cint the revo did. She played
Speaker 6: Aretha and I played art Tatum. Guess what couldn't put
Speaker 6: it back in?
Speaker 1: Well, there you go.
Speaker 5: So therefore I have no.
Speaker 1: Earrings and now you don't have all that You don't
Speaker 1: need all that stuff to be cool. Yeah, you just
Speaker 1: need pants.
Speaker 5: That's yeah. I need to at least try on what
Speaker 5: I'm gonna wear before.
Speaker 1: Before you do it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 6: So funny, Like I literally was walking around holding up
Speaker 6: my pants.
Speaker 5: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: Is that the it was that the first time you'd
Speaker 1: play with him, or you've done a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 6: No, I've been going over to cut TIB's house since
Speaker 6: before that record came out, for like seven years, because
Speaker 6: he loves to He just loves creating. So I would
Speaker 6: go over there and replay samples for stuff that he's producing,
Speaker 6: like replay the actual samples from the records, and they
Speaker 6: would come up with new stuff, and you know, I've
Speaker 6: been on tour with them a few times and stuff
Speaker 6: like you know what I mean. So that that's been
Speaker 6: my guy I've been. I've been dealing with Tips since probably.
Speaker 5: Like ninety nine because oh wow.
Speaker 6: He knew Blao and then because of BALaw, I was
Speaker 6: always around him with Blaw you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: And then he then me and him got cool because
Speaker 6: of that situation. Okay, blow was my intro.
Speaker 1: He's your gateway.
Speaker 6: He's my gateway to that whole like neo soul movement
Speaker 6: that happened in like ninety seven. That he was my
Speaker 6: gateway because he was a part of that whole thing
Speaker 6: and everybody needed. Everybody wanted to be allowed to sink
Speaker 6: on stuff. And yeah, he's from Philadelphia. He's so cool,
Speaker 6: and he's so cool and dope. And I was the
Speaker 6: friend that was always we were best friends, like we
Speaker 6: were always together.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And so that's kind of how I everybody knew
Speaker 5: who I was.
Speaker 1: I was wondering, actually, I was like, how did you
Speaker 1: end up from jazz camp to the new School And
Speaker 1: that's still not a gateway to this whole community.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was that it.
Speaker 6: Was I moved to New York during the neo so
Speaker 6: moving the roots, We're doing all these jam sessions in
Speaker 6: New York. Yeah, they had these legendary jam sessions every
Speaker 6: week in New York. And there was a legendary jam
Speaker 6: session and Philly at the spot called the Black Lily,
Speaker 6: which literally where the neo soul movement pretty much was
Speaker 6: Births Club, and they would do something like I think
Speaker 6: every Tuesday, and that's where like allows you to take
Speaker 6: me on the but we took a Greayhound bus to Philly.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that jam session, because.
Speaker 6: That's that's when I saw Jazz myself and she was
Speaker 6: like the fourteen really in the club. Wow, I saw
Speaker 6: Jazzmine and then quest Love and James Poyser, James, James, James.
Speaker 1: My guy is he also know he's from Philly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Philly.
Speaker 6: He's a big He's a backbone to that whole James Poyser,
Speaker 6: like the backbone to that whole neo soul movement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't realize how much he produced and.
Speaker 5: Produced and you know, his style of playing.
Speaker 6: I copped a lot from James's playing, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean, A lot of people don't even realize that.
Speaker 5: But he too.
Speaker 1: He played on one of my records.
Speaker 6: And yeah, he came with a style that didn't precede him.
Speaker 6: Like no one plays like James, you know, and now
Speaker 6: they do. But he has a certain style that just
Speaker 6: it was his own and every you kind of have
Speaker 6: to play like that to play this genre. That that's
Speaker 6: that's that's sort that sole genre. You to play like
Speaker 6: James to make it work. And so that became a
Speaker 6: part of my style. But I was trying to show
Speaker 6: me how to do it, and he was like, you
Speaker 6: you got to play like this, but it's not that,
Speaker 6: but it's this, And I was like, what are you
Speaker 6: talking about?
Speaker 1: Can you show me what you're talking about show me James,
Speaker 1: I think I know.
Speaker 6: But there's a song that Blouded called Sometimes and it's
Speaker 6: like a it's like a.
Speaker 5: Some too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 12: It's that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that that little yeah, those things. Yeah, those things.
Speaker 6: I also copy it, yeah exactly, but in a way,
Speaker 6: in a way, because you hear those things, you also
Speaker 6: hear that kind of twang in country music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not quite the same. It's a different
Speaker 1: wilt exactly. Got like a different accent, it's.
Speaker 6: A different accent, different vibe on the different yeah exactly.
Speaker 6: But James has he cultivated that thing, and it's like
Speaker 6: that's the thing behind so many of our other great songs.
Speaker 5: Of that time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, shout at the poison.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: James great songwriter too. Like I said, he wrote this
Speaker 6: song sometimes for Loud. I mean, he wrote so many
Speaker 6: great songs. I didn't funny story I was when I
Speaker 6: met you. When I was playing with the Roots of
Speaker 6: Radio City, we rehearsed the song called the Other Side
Speaker 6: of the Game. That's what's called Other Side of the Game,
Speaker 6: so Erica. But song James is late coming to the rehearsal,
Speaker 6: so we're in the middle of playing that song, and
Speaker 6: when he walked in, I was like, oh, the changes
Speaker 6: are He was like, oh, I think I think I
Speaker 6: know it because I wrote it.
Speaker 1: I was like, that was my that was my ship.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah, but he's so quiet.
Speaker 1: Did he play with her in the beginning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he did shows and stuff. She's always
Speaker 5: heard a band from Dallas.
Speaker 1: Which who I know to high school with.
Speaker 5: She always had those guys.
Speaker 6: But there are times obviously when she comes and plays
Speaker 6: with the Roots or whatever that that James is playing
Speaker 6: with that but she already said she's always had those guys.
Speaker 1: Yea are see Brandon Jones.
Speaker 5: You know Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was my freshman buddy when I was a senior.
Speaker 1: They put us together and he was like, he's doing
Speaker 1: great ranges, like you know, justin Timberlake shows and and
Speaker 1: that's crazy.
Speaker 5: Janet Jackson's director right now.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, like puts.
Speaker 5: Together amazing shows like just Arrange Manson.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But yeah, Daniel, Corey, Lacy, Sean Martin, se Sean,
Speaker 1: I mean I.
Speaker 5: Just talked to Sean yesterday. Yeah, that's my guy.
Speaker 1: Just these guys were huge, But yeah, I love his
Speaker 1: drums and his sister Rachelle. So they were huge influences
Speaker 1: on me because they were all like a year year
Speaker 1: or two older. And I mean I feel like I
Speaker 1: absorbed all that in high.
Speaker 5: School for them, absolutely.
Speaker 1: This whole other thing.
Speaker 6: I had this we had a rivalry because but then
Speaker 6: you even know what anybody looked like. I couldn't hear
Speaker 6: anybody really play. Yeah, there was no internet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's true.
Speaker 5: All we knew was who won an all stage.
Speaker 1: Jazz band exactly?
Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Yeah, one year I won the piano chair for the
Speaker 6: all stage Jazz band, and then we had I g
Speaker 6: E remember, oh.
Speaker 1: My god, I went. Yeah, it was crazy and you
Speaker 1: got to meet everybody.
Speaker 5: I got to meet everybody. But they came looking for me,
Speaker 5: like who the hell?
Speaker 1: Who's Robert class class?
Speaker 6: That's still trending right now. So they all came to
Speaker 6: my show with my high.
Speaker 1: School your high school band played.
Speaker 6: High school band played. I had a solo on this
Speaker 6: on like so what and I played. Then after that
Speaker 6: I met them and they were all cool, and then
Speaker 6: we had the jam session. I sst to have pictures
Speaker 6: of our jam session. We made a jam one of
Speaker 6: the rooms and Sean Spudd, Brayln Daniel. I brought Daniel Perez.
Speaker 6: I'm in high school. Were to have a jam session?
Speaker 6: You want to jam with us?
Speaker 5: He was like, let school, bro, Oh my god, that's
Speaker 5: what Daniel is.
Speaker 6: My guy's amazing. I just two the Grammys just now.
Speaker 6: He was, Yeah, I love him, he's my guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So it was like those those times of I ge
Speaker 6: and getting together and seeing all the students that you
Speaker 6: can't Yeah, there was no internet, so you didn't couldn't
Speaker 6: really do a you know, connection like that, so you
Speaker 6: got to see everybody there.
Speaker 1: It was such a scene though.
Speaker 5: It was such a scene important and like.
Speaker 1: The nineties jazz was so exciting. It was such an
Speaker 1: exciting time for that musically.
Speaker 5: Kennygarrett, Brad Mildo, Brad Mild.
Speaker 1: And like, I never did, I've never done anything with them.
Speaker 5: That just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: What's I mean?
Speaker 5: He's amazing.
Speaker 1: He's one of my favorites.
Speaker 6: Just the cruise with him. I got a chance to
Speaker 6: hang out with him for the first time just now
Speaker 6: in the Blue Mielt Jazz cruise.
Speaker 1: Did you turn into a high school kid?
Speaker 5: One thousand? I got a chance to hang out with him.
Speaker 5: Larry cool.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and yeah, and uh Jeff Jeff Ballot amazing. We
Speaker 6: got a chance to really hang because I would go
Speaker 6: to his shows, but I was in college.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not like hanging after the show.
Speaker 5: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Can you sign my my down beat mad?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And brad Man he's just like he's always been a
Speaker 6: big influence on me too.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love him and he also loves radio.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember going to see Josh Redmon in Fort Worth
Speaker 1: at the Caravan of Dreams and it was it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be Christian mcbriene on bass, but I think
Speaker 1: it was Chris Thomas on bass in the end and
Speaker 1: it was Brian Blade on drums. And that was my
Speaker 1: first time seeing Brian play. And now I play with
Speaker 1: him and it's like.
Speaker 5: My dream, you know, still my dream to play with Brian.
Speaker 1: Have you never played with Brian?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's make it happen.
Speaker 5: He's just a he's a magician. He's a makeup artist.
Speaker 5: He is you know what I mean. He just makes
Speaker 5: beautiful like he is.
Speaker 6: It's just he's so beautiful when you beautiful, and he's
Speaker 6: groyd and just disrespectful when you need to be when
Speaker 6: you need to be disrespectful.
Speaker 1: He will hate it hard, yes, but he's so sensitive.
Speaker 1: But I felt like that watching Chris Daves. I felt
Speaker 1: like every time he touches anything, it is it is
Speaker 1: like it's it's purposeful and it's there's something like magical
Speaker 1: about it. Absolutely, and they're so different, you know, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like that watching him. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is my dream.
Speaker 6: When I watched Brian, I love how he looks surprised.
Speaker 6: He looks surprised at things that are on the drums
Speaker 6: for me, but he'll be.
Speaker 5: Playing, he'll be playing. If he'll look at a symbol,
Speaker 5: he'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, did you not know
Speaker 5: that to somebody like bring it? You didn't know? Because
Speaker 5: he like he's still like a kid playing like he's so.
Speaker 1: Well, he's so reactive to everything in the moment, Like
Speaker 1: he's more in the moment than anyone I've ever.
Speaker 5: I feel ever played with. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's so like he's like, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: this song I'm playing, Oh.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it always it's never like ye weird. Yeah.
Speaker 6: His Fellowship Band Top five concepts I've ever seen in
Speaker 6: my life. I saw him play at the vanguard years
Speaker 6: and years and they were still doing anything.
Speaker 5: And it just puts me to tears, you know, like
Speaker 5: it's very moving, super moving.
Speaker 1: It's also very like soulful and like everything he does
Speaker 1: is with a big heart intention.
Speaker 6: I wrote this tune off of there's a tune called
Speaker 6: Cricket Creek on his album is the very first record
Speaker 6: Role and actually what you gonna wrote it?
Speaker 1: John John?
Speaker 6: Yeah, beautiful John. I love John Yeah, beautiful play. And
Speaker 6: I wrote a song. I listened to Cricket Creek so
Speaker 6: much that summer. I wrote a song off like Move
Speaker 6: on my very first album. It's a song called Mood.
Speaker 5: What a Mother?
Speaker 8: That's pretty.
Speaker 6: And I literally I wrote that song because of Cricket Caek.
Speaker 6: That's the very first tune I wrote on on the
Speaker 6: for for an album, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, oh, we're gonna have a lot of tags
Speaker 1: on this podcast, all our favorite people.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, absolutely, But it's important because you don't get a
Speaker 6: chance to really tell the story of you know, who
Speaker 6: helped you get here, where you came from. Just it
Speaker 6: could be one song from one person that meant so much,
Speaker 6: that is a part of your life and part of
Speaker 6: your whole thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: All my friends from high school absolutely one more Shelton Summons, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Charles Mcampbell.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I had Kendrick Scott, I had Wattersmith.
Speaker 1: And so they were at camp too, though. Mackenzie Mackenzie
Speaker 1: mcken and I went to college with Mackenzie.
Speaker 5: Gotcha, yep, yep, that's my guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, it's like it's that family.
Speaker 6: Absolutely so good that you know, those performing ours high
Speaker 6: schools really shape you. They really don't realize in the moment,
Speaker 6: but it's like, yeah, they really really shape you.
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Speaker 1: Hm. Yes, there's nothing like those and those black.
Speaker 8: That's my favorite.
Speaker 1: Oh that was fun.
Speaker 5: About Oh that was so fun, so fun.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. I don't think we announced that last song
Speaker 1: we played, but that was Florette Afrikaan by Do Callington.
Speaker 3: Yes, and if you're wondering what the other two songs
Speaker 3: in this episode were, the first one was Reckner, a
Speaker 3: radio Head cover.
Speaker 1: Yes that he's recorded before, and the second song was
Speaker 1: Life Is Better, which is a song he wrote with
Speaker 1: Q Tip that I sang on the album version. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was such a fun episode.
Speaker 3: So fun, you guys, I mean it really just connecting
Speaker 3: on all those different people that you have in commons
Speaker 3: so fun.
Speaker 1: That was really special actually, and just hearing him talk
Speaker 1: about people who made him who he is, it's really beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's definitely so appreciative of every person that inspired
Speaker 3: him along the way.
Speaker 1: He's such a giving person. Yeah, it's rad and we
Speaker 1: have part two coming up, so be sure to tune
Speaker 1: in for the rest, which is equally special. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: This episode was recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, California,
Speaker 1: by Clint Whelander, assisted by Zach Zaidel, edited by Sarah Oda,
Speaker 1: mixed by Jamie Landry. Additional engineering by Pete Hanlon and
Speaker 1: Matthew Vasquez. Artwork by Eliza Fry, Photography by Shervin Linez.
Speaker 1: Produced by Me and Myoda. Thanks for listening. Don't forget
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