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12:04 Speaker 15: Welcome everybody, as we have entered our number three new Marrow trace of Matt Connorton unleashed allergies like my voice is cracking again anyway, Oh my goodness, Yes, I'm had to go through puberty a second time.

12:19 Speaker 16: Won't that be exciting?

12:21 Speaker 15: We are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can also stream the show from anywhere. Go to my website Matt connorton dot com, slash live for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact and fosh archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, May twenty four, twenty twenty five. By the way, we've had a great show so far. Of course, we just had Eli lev on in the second hour and that was always amazing and I learned something from him.

12:48 Speaker 15: He mentioned he said this to me off air, and then I repeated it on air that apparently the Northeast is the highest concentration of pollen in the world, which I had no idea.

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12:59 Speaker 16: We have more pollen than anywhere in the world, so that explains why this happens to me. That was kind of stink. Yes, yes, but yeah. So so we've we really enjoyed hanging out with Eli, and of course in the first hour we had King Polo with us. And right now, let me get that mic up. We have Jack Liano says here, Hello Jack, Hello, guys, welcome to the program.

13:21 Speaker 7: Thank you.

13:21 Speaker 15: You're already getting some love in the chat room. We haven't even started yet. Darlene Hill is in the chat and said, uh, Jack's show last week was amazing everybody needs to see here the PMJ Ensemble. I can't wait to hear him live again from our listening room in the fall.

13:39 Speaker 16: Very nice. Yeah, we had.

13:43 Speaker 15: Probably probably less than a year ago. I don't know, it all becomes a blur, but yeah, we had Kate on the show talking about the listening room at Prayers of Nature and uh, yeah, sounds like sounds like your performance.

13:56 Speaker 16: There was a success.

13:58 Speaker 4: Yeah.

13:58 Speaker 7: So I've been working with Katie a little bit and we're trying to set something up coming up this fall. But I invited her to come see my the group I've put together, which is called the Perimeter Jazz Ensemble. And this group's been kind of two years in the making and it's all come to like it's the concert we did recently was like the pinnacle of the group. And so, you know, two years ago I went to one of my band directors and I was like, hey, I I want to start a jazz big band and he was like, that's an interesting idea, and he was like, let's do it.

14:38 Speaker 7: Let's do it. And so what I did is, you know a little bit more backstory is the year before that, I had made Jazz All State as a sophomore, and I, you know, I was talking to a bunch of the guys there, and I got a lot of their contact info, like phone numbers, Instagrams and whatnot, and you know, I was kind of sad because a group that great only rehearsed one weekend a year, and so I was thinking, like, okay, what if we just do it more right? And so I called a lot of them, uh or I called all of them, and a lot of them said yes, some of them said no.

15:14 Speaker 7: And I called around and asked friends of friends to see, you know, like who would be you know, fitting to fill certain positions and whatnot. And we had a concert at the end of last year. We rented out the space at Manchester Community Music School and we did a concert there. It was pretty good. If you search up my YouTube under Jack Leennis, you know it'll be I think two of the oldest links on there. And the group sounded really good. And then, you know, the challenge we faced this year is eight of our players left because they were seniors and they graduated and they're off at college now, and so I had to fill all of those shoes and we put a we got a date at the Rex theater, and you know, it was all of it came together.

15:57 Speaker 7: I think it was awesome.

15:59 Speaker 16: How many so eight of them left? How many in the group total?

16:02 Speaker 7: So it's a group of eighteen eighteen?

16:04 Speaker 10: Wow?

16:05 Speaker 16: So you put this together?

16:06 Speaker 7: I did.

16:07 Speaker 16: Sounds very stressful.

16:09 Speaker 7: It's a lot of a lot of work, a lot of it's like hurting cats, you know.

16:15 Speaker 16: No, I can imagine. Yeah, because you know, it's funny. This comes up on the show a lot.

16:20 Speaker 15: I explain a lot of bands and I remember, you know, being in a band with you know, three four other people that can be hard to manage, you know, And and a lot of the solo acts who come on the show. You know, we'll talk to a lot of singer songwriters for example, who used to be in bands. We'll talk about, oh, it's so much easier being a solo act. But I can't even imagine what it's like. Well, like you said, it's like hurting cats, right when you've got that many people.

16:44 Speaker 7: So, you know, when we have that amount of people, there's a lot of challenges that to rise up. You know, like if you have say a three or four piece band and someone can't make it, then it's like okay, maybe we just don't everhearsle today or something like that, right, or if you just struggling to figure out a date to rehearse, Like I'm I'm playing this four piece band on June first. We're doing a show at the Capital Center's Bank of New Hampshire Stage and Conquered Nice. So it's like kind of more like a folk southern rock, like old school country type of show, and it's I'm really excited for it.

17:20 Speaker 7: The guy who's running the group his names Dakota Smart. But that band, you know, like there's four of us and we struggle to like find rehearsal times that work for all of us, but with the big band of eighteen pieces and plus you know, we have two co directors that kind of split everything up. Yeah, we what we had to do is we had to establish a day of the week that we're gonna meet and post a rehearsal schedule. And you know, like there were some people that were really really talented players, but they said, hey, I can't do it because of the like I can't make Monday's work in my schedule, and so you know, unfortunately we had to continue on without them and find you know, other people who you know, we're able to do it.

17:57 Speaker 7: But yeah, that's that's the tricky part is like, you know, realizing that you can't have some people in the band because of when you choose to rehearse right right.

18:06 Speaker 16: And then what do you do if?

18:07 Speaker 15: So, if you have a show and what if like what if somebody gets sick or something. I mean, is it possible to go on without with one missing piece when it's that many people or what do you do?

18:19 Speaker 16: Yes?

18:19 Speaker 7: But you know with the big band, everybody's part is different. So if you're missing somebody, you're gonna be missing you know, a voicing in the harmony or something. Yeah, so you know you have to have uh what we call you know, you have to have your list of fill ins and just people that you you know, you think you can call on the day of the show if someone can't make it or you know, like another thing is like if someone's instrument breaks or someone loses their music. Oh yeah, right, Like the day of the show.

18:45 Speaker 7: I had one of the players. The show was at noon. I had them call me at like nine am. He's like, hey, I left my music in my school and this is a Sunday. Oh god, So we had to, you know, go through a big chain of like calling band directors and be like, hey, do you have this band director's number? Can you get you know, have access to the school, do you have a key? And so we ended up getting him as music and all was well, definitely little bit stressful before before my big show.

19:10 Speaker 16: So yeah, I mean you.

19:12 Speaker 15: Sound like, uh, but you sound like you're you handle it well and you've got a good attitude about it. I don't know what your long term career plans are, but if you considered project management, no, because you obviously you the fact that you're able to do that and uh, you know, because honestly, a lot of people in that situation would just say, oh, this is too hard, right, you know what I mean. But but but you're committed and you do it and and I'm sure it's stressful in the moment, but you seem to have a very you seem to have the right attitude about it, and it sounds like you're very organized.

19:44 Speaker 7: Yeah. I wouldn't call myself super organized, but you know, there's there's some things that you have to just pay attention to and you have to keep in line. You know, you have to plan ahead because like with you know, like if you have like a three piece gig, you can just say, hey, you guys for you this Saturday, this venue wants us to play. But with eighteen people, somebody's going to be doing something. So the concert at the Rex I planned. So this was May of twenty five. I planned it, I think June or July of twenty twenty four.

20:12 Speaker 7: Okay, so you know, you just have to be planning ahead and if you can do that, then you know, that's that's one of the tips and tricks to running a group like that.

20:22 Speaker 15: Yeah wow, So what are what are kind of your your long term I mean in terms of that project, did you intend to continue that or.

20:30 Speaker 7: So I'm not continuing it. I have a successor planned and so he's going to keep the group going. Yeah, because you know I'm going to college next year.

20:40 Speaker 16: Yeah, excellent.

20:41 Speaker 7: I've committed to the New School, which is a it's a like art and design and music school in Manhattan. Oh wow, good for you. Yeah, so it's it's one of the top music schools down there. Awesome, and I'm really glad I'm able to go.

20:55 Speaker 16: So yeah, yeah, that's really cool. What's kind of do you know and you may not know yet what your kind of long term goals are in terms of a music career. Do you have some ideas or Yeah.

21:06 Speaker 7: So a lot of my friends right now they're thinking of teaching, but you know, I I don't really see teaching in my career. Yeah, so you know, I'm kind of looking at like just you know, going for a performance degree, and you know, like there's for for me, there's no real better city, you know, around here than New York City for jazz. Sure, sure, because like if you look at you know, like where people go and travel to go see jazz. You know, you have New York City and New Orleans. And New Orleans has a lot of tuba, and so as a bass player, I'd have to either learn tu but or just go you know to New York.

21:39 Speaker 15: So right right, that's interesting. Yeah, I was curious about soul. Would you say New York is number one for jazz and New Orleans number two.

21:48 Speaker 7: It's it's a different style of jazz. There's a lot of a lot of great artists, I think for modern jazz. Nowadays, the West Coast is starting to open up, so a little bit of lay in there. Yeah, so you know, there's a lot of great, a little great artists that come from that area. If you listen to a lot of modern jazz. There's a saxophone players. His name is Joshua Redmond. Yes, phenomenal player. He's from LA so I know he spends a lot of time there and he's kind of traveling around. I saw him at when I went I flew down to New Orleans over I think it was the last weekend April and I saw I saw him play live at New Orleans Jazz Fest.

22:26 Speaker 7: So yeah, it was it was an incredible experience.

22:29 Speaker 16: Do you uh, you probably play multiple instruments, I assume right.

22:33 Speaker 7: I I dabble a little bit, but I focus mostly on bass. So I started playing violin, and I didn't really play it much after middle school. So if you handed me a violin, I'd be able to play it at about a middle school level, Okay. And you know, like I I kind of know keyboard, so like if you if you give me like a chord sheet, I'll be like, Okay, that's this chord, that chord whatnot. But I can't sight read on piano like a lot of people can.

23:00 Speaker 15: Yeah, but just knowing the basics of keyboard, right, Like, I've heard so many music instructors and various various people who have taught music say that that is such a that's such a good foundation to have, you know, even if even if you have no interest in actually really playing the keyboard, but just to know the basics of it. I never learned the basics of it. And I'm I'm a bass player, but I you know, I don't have the chops to play jazz. You know, I just played played a lot of rock bands. But but I've just heard a lot of instructors say just knowing basic keyboard is just will help you in any other instrument, playing any other instrument that that that you could imagine.

23:38 Speaker 7: It's such a visual instrument like a lot of instruments. Like you know, if you're playing saxophone, you can't like you're holding it like right against your body. You can't see the court. Yeah, you know, you know you have you know, you just put your hand down, you see the notes, you see the distance between the notes, you see the relationship that they have, and so you know, it's it brings like a visual perspective to like the music instead of just cheat music.

23:58 Speaker 16: That's the way I've heard it described to the way.

24:00 Speaker 15: I've heard people say, you know, it teaches you to, as you said, to see the relationship between the notes when you're forming chords and all that. Oh, by the way, Darling Hill in the shot says, the keyboard was a game changer for me.

24:13 Speaker 16: Yeah.

24:13 Speaker 15: I had a little Cassio keyboard growing up, but I didn't learn to play. I don't really learned to play it. But so, so you said us some music. So now one of these is I assume this is the big band Perimeter Jazz Ensemble twenty five. That is, let's see so maybe we so this is so how many people are in this?

24:35 Speaker 7: So there's eighteen eighteen players and two directors.

24:37 Speaker 16: Good lord, it just sounds overwhelming to me.

24:40 Speaker 7: When you listen to it, you'll be like, I know why he spent all that time. This group is just incredible.

24:44 Speaker 16: All right, Let's let's let's listen to a little bit of this. Let's see what we've what we've got.

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27:55 Speaker 8: N'ing cool, I see what you mean.

29:33 Speaker 16: Though, you know, it's funny.

29:33 Speaker 15: As you were listening to that, I was thinking about, you know, as I was asking you, you know, what happens if somebody can't make it, if somebody's sick or whatever. And I can kind of see or here as I'm listening to it, how it's kind of like Jenga, Right, you take one piece out of that, that whole thing might collapse.

29:50 Speaker 7: Right. So yeah, So, you know, like rehearsals, like if someone if one person cancels and rehearsal, then it's like, okay, we still have to do rehearsal because the other seventeen can make it, you know.

30:00 Speaker 16: Yeah, And so.

30:02 Speaker 7: Sometimes like during rehearsals, like you'll hear certain players that are missing, and it's like, okay, I can hear the hole there.

30:09 Speaker 1: Yeah.

30:10 Speaker 7: But circling back a little bit, so that tune we just played was a Mike Conrad arrangement of I'm Not So Sure, which is a tune that Roy Hargrove made famous on his two thousand and eight album called Earfood. Okay, and so it was, you know, it was adapted for Big Band, and I think it sounds awesome.

30:32 Speaker 16: By the way.

30:32 Speaker 15: Uh oh, here it is. I lost it for a second there. Kate in the chat room, she said, she has a good question. How many schools are in the PMJ, so out of the perimeter jazz and somb but we have.

30:47 Speaker 7: There's eighteen players from sixteen different high schools.

30:50 Speaker 16: So wow, yeah, that's still that still just amazes me that you're able to organize all that. What is PMJ?

30:57 Speaker 7: So it's I think you might have gotten it wrong. It's p e J. Oh, it's okay, sorry, okay, give it a jazz ensemble. Yeah, and then you've got so you also sent us all of me yes, and this is is this just the three piece spanned? Yeah, So it's a little trio I worked with. I worked with so I had a drummer and a pianist. And what we did is we did for I made the mistake of applying to I think sixteen different colleges.

31:29 Speaker 4: So did you really?

31:31 Speaker 7: I did so, you know a lot of them asked for video recordings before you came down for the auditions.

31:37 Speaker 18: Yeah.

31:37 Speaker 7: I had to do a bunch of them, and this was one of the better ones I think.

31:40 Speaker 16: So, yeah, you applied to how many schools?

31:43 Speaker 12: I think?

31:43 Speaker 1: Is?

31:46 Speaker 7: I mean I'm sixteen or seventeen, I've don't remember.

31:48 Speaker 16: I've heard of having a safety school, but my god.

31:51 Speaker 7: Yeah, So the whole goal was to kind of apply to a bunch of them and you know, kind of follow the one that gives like the best, you know, like money to education.

32:02 Speaker 16: Yeah.

32:03 Speaker 7: So you know, like even though I did get some schools that are cheaper than the one I'm going to, sure, you know, I think what I'm getting while i'm there is completely worth it.

32:10 Speaker 15: So yeah, yeah, oh that's what that's what matters. Absolutely, all right, Cool, let's give this a listen. So this is all of me and where was this done?

32:18 Speaker 7: So this was done in my basement.

32:20 Speaker 16: Oh no kidding. Oh, you got a nice basement set up there. It looks like.

32:23 Speaker 7: Yeah, so we spent we spent a good a good time. Because it's a video proportion to it. My dad spent a lot of time getting the lighting done. Oh really, he's you know, he kind of knows what he's doing because he spent before see when he got out of college, I want to say, he spent fifteen or twenty years working for news companies. So he's like lighting and sound.

32:41 Speaker 16: Oh cool, So he worked for that's a good resource to have.

32:45 Speaker 7: Yeah, he worked for Channel nine in Manchester for a long time. Oh and every day, you know, every now and then we go see like the Fourth of July fireworks, it'll be like I remember I used to stand on top of that building and you know it's cool.

32:56 Speaker 16: Oh, no kidding, Oh that's awesome, that's awesome. Yeah, let's give this listen. So this is this is all of me.

35:19 Speaker 18: Bah, that's cool, that's cool.

36:54 Speaker 16: Yeah, all of me. Jacquelianis and who else is I on that with you?

36:57 Speaker 1: So?

36:58 Speaker 7: I have a drummer's name sabat Ashton Keene and the piano player is Nick Vallatin. Both of them were in the Perimeter Jazz Ensembles.

37:05 Speaker 16: Oh okay, gotcha believe it or not.

37:07 Speaker 7: Piano player Nick is a year under me and he's going to be taking it over next year.

37:11 Speaker 16: Oh that's he's the guy. Huh, it's all on him.

37:13 Speaker 7: I said to him, I said, it's your problem now, and we all joke about it. Yeah, because the amount of you know, amount of effort and wrangling the herd of cats is it's a lot.

37:23 Speaker 16: No doubt.

37:25 Speaker 15: Yeah, we were playing that from YouTube and I'm just you know, I'm a bass player, so I'm just kind of watching your fingers and kind of an od to be honest with you, because so I've never learned to play an upright bass. I've never actually I have never even touched him upright bass. And I'm just watching you and it's just especially when you have to go way up the neck.

37:39 Speaker 7: It's like, yeah, wow, so impressive to a lot of people are like, oh, how do you do it? You know, there's no frets, there's no dots, like what you know, how do you do it? And while I started in violin, which had no frets and no dots, and so I went from violin to bass, and frets are weird to me. If you hand me an upright bass or not an upright babe, you me electric bass, I'll be like, what do these dots mean? Yeah, Like I know the two in the middle is the octave, but like.

38:05 Speaker 16: Does it almost feel like the frets themselves are in the way a little bit?

38:09 Speaker 7: Yeah, a little bit in the way. And the fact that it's sideways is different, you know, because like instead of you know, having your hand, you know, completely upright, you're just like you're watching your hand now instead of your hand being almost behind your head. Yeah, you know, like it's weird, Yeah.

38:25 Speaker 16: Yeah, your hands must be pretty calloused, I would imagine.

38:28 Speaker 7: Yeah they are. They are.

38:31 Speaker 16: Yeah, no, that's cool though, that's cool. And then you've got another thing that you sent us. Let's see what's this.

38:36 Speaker 7: So it's the Nick Old Soul Spencer Vand.

38:39 Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm curious about this.

38:40 Speaker 7: So this is a blues group. Okay, we we've done a little bit, you know, bits and pieces here and there. The drummer, Sebastian Keen is on this one as well. He's a very talented drummer. He's does everything. So he's going he's committed to Berkeley next year actually going there. And then the guitar is of this group. His name is Nick Spencer, and everyone calls him Old Soul because he dresses like an old man and so, you know, and he's his playing is very reminiscent of some of the you know, older blues artists as well, so you know a lot of local blues artists have have found him and really like his playing.

39:22 Speaker 7: And so now he's at Berkeley and he's the guitarist of the blues band called Frankie Boy in the Blues Express or now the Blues Express. They changed the name. Okay, but so this blues trio is just kind of something we've we've been doing. I met Nick through some friends because they were at Bedford High School and they needed a bass player. So there's a group of Bedford kids and then they're like, well, we need a bass player. So they called me and I was like, yeah, sure, I'll show up and so we hung out and Nick and I were like instant friends, and so you know, we hit it off and we've spent a lot of time together over the years.

40:00 Speaker 7: Last year for April vacation because you know, New Hampshire schools get out the last week in April, and so we decided to drive down to New Orleans and spend a week there. So it's me and then three other friends, and then a couple more flew in and so we drove down. It was a two day drive. They drove down for two days and then we spent three days in the city and we drove two days back. Wow, So it was you know, it was a lot of driving.

40:30 Speaker 14: Yea.

40:30 Speaker 7: We became very close because of that though, So of course, you know, but Nick and I we've done a lot together, and you know, I anticipate us doing some more stuff in the future. So the clip that you have is was recorded live from Frank Walsh's TV show Talking Tunes.

40:47 Speaker 16: So, okay, where does that air?

40:49 Speaker 7: So it's it airs. It's a little bit south of Boston. Okay, okay, yeah, cool, all right, let's give this a listen. I'm very curious to hear this and making tunes the Nick Old School Spencer Band featuring Jaquionos. What what's the name of the song? So, the name of the song is Walking by Myself. It's an old Jimmy Rogers tune. Okay, you get to hear me sing.

41:08 Speaker 16: Oh nice? Are you leader or backing vocal?

41:11 Speaker 7: I'm lead?

41:11 Speaker 16: Oh you're oh? This is you singing lead?

41:13 Speaker 12: Oh?

41:13 Speaker 16: Excellent?

41:14 Speaker 7: Singing and playing bassis One of the hardest things I've ever done is very difficult.

41:17 Speaker 16: Yeah all right, very curious here this, So let's give this a spin. Yeah, thank you.

41:22 Speaker 4: That's a Muddy Waters tune.

41:24 Speaker 1: I learned that from Bob Mark gooldan personally.

41:38 Speaker 6: Walking why myself? If you understand, I just want to.

41:48 Speaker 16: Be your love and man, I love you, Yes, I love you.

41:57 Speaker 4: Oh my heart and soul whipus, treat you full my weight and gone. You know, I love you. You know it's true, Give you all of my love? It what more can I do?

42:22 Speaker 6: Walking by MYSELFA hope you'll understand.

42:29 Speaker 4: I just want to be a loving man. What you got, Nick?

42:59 Speaker 4: You know I love you. You know it's true. Give you all of my love? And what more can I do?

43:20 Speaker 6: Walking by myself? You'll understand? I just want to be your loving man. Let me chirp out something.

44:05 Speaker 4: You know I love you, you know it's true. Give you all of my love?

44:14 Speaker 7: Man?

44:15 Speaker 4: What more can I do?

44:19 Speaker 6: Logging bozo, Oh you understand?

44:27 Speaker 4: I just want to be your love and man?

44:35 Speaker 7: My work is he there?

44:37 Speaker 19: We go?

44:38 Speaker 7: Very cool?

44:39 Speaker 16: That's awesome.

44:39 Speaker 15: Yeah, jacque le uh leono's my saying that correct le Jacque Liana's on lead vocal there.

44:46 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's that's that song. I really like that song because it's one verse and a chorus.

44:54 Speaker 11: Yeah.

44:54 Speaker 7: I can't remember anything more than that, man, the amount of times I've tried to remember more than that. I think there's a clip of me floating out there somewhere of me absolutely messing up. Falso, Prison Blues is really really it's an easy song.

45:07 Speaker 16: Yeah.

45:08 Speaker 7: I think it's three or four verses and then that's it. I can't remember. I like by the words, you know, they're supposed to go through in your brain, through your mouth to the mic. They just they just disappear. They leave my brain. I don't know where they go. I don't know if in my leg or something.

45:24 Speaker 15: But well, I like you were saying, though you've it's challenging to, you know, play bass and sing at the same time. Is that something that's gotten easier for you over time.

45:33 Speaker 7: Or just like everything, the more you practice it the more. Yeah, yeah, so I get I guess so yeah, but it's still like learning new songs is tricky because I will forget lyrics names too. I'm terrible with really.

45:48 Speaker 16: Yeah.

45:48 Speaker 15: Yeah, when you when you play a bass solo and a song like that, are you do you just kind of play your own thing for the solo or are you trying to replicate what was what the original if there was a bass solo on the original version of that.

46:03 Speaker 7: Song or yeah, so for that song, I was just doing my own thing, you know. Some like I've been working on, like for more jazz stuff is like transcribing like what certain artists are playing. Okay, so you know, like like there's a lot of saxophone solos that I think are really great and a lot of great jazz records, and so I'm trying to take those and transcribe them and be able to play them on bass. Oh it's not easy because you could play a lot of notes really fast, and saxophone sure, and bassis you cannot play a lot and it's really fast.

46:31 Speaker 7: It's a very it's it's a big instrument. And so yeah, you know, playing sixteen sixteenth note runs or thirty second note runs are very difficult.

46:39 Speaker 16: That's interesting.

46:39 Speaker 15: That's another thing that never really occurred to me about it until you said it. Like I said, I've never played an upright bass, but until you said that, I never really thought of it that way.

46:46 Speaker 16: But yeah, that makes sense.

46:47 Speaker 7: Yeah, Like like I do a lot of orchestra work as well. Yeah, I'm part of the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra. Oh you are yeah, wow cool, And so like there'll be violin parts that have like just littered with sixteenth notes and thirty second notes and eighth notes and then I get quarter notes in the bass part.

47:03 Speaker 16: Yeah.

47:04 Speaker 7: And you know, like I used to play violin, Like if you give me a violin, I can play like notes faster because it's a smaller instruments, way easier to move.

47:12 Speaker 15: Yeah, so that makes sense, that makes sense. You sent us one other thing here labeled audition three two.

47:20 Speaker 16: Yeah.

47:20 Speaker 7: So this this is a clip from one of my auditions. I was lucky enough they let me record it live and I thought it sounds good enough to put on the radio.

47:29 Speaker 16: So, oh okay, all right, let's check this out. Yeah, where was this done?

47:33 Speaker 7: So? This was done in New York City? Oh, no, kidding, So this was actually at the New School. Oh so this was the one of This is a song from the audition that got me in there.

47:42 Speaker 16: So this was this is what we're gonna play here. This was a pivotal moment. Yeah, right, I could have been.

47:49 Speaker 7: I was very nervous.

47:50 Speaker 16: I can imagine, I can imagine. All right, let's check this out.

50:04 Speaker 19: M m.

50:23 Speaker 1: M m.

50:43 Speaker 15: So I'm really curious. So when when you're in that situation where you're auditioning, and again this is obviously a high pressure moment for you, who are the other the other two people who are playing with you, the drummer and the and the piano player.

50:56 Speaker 16: Are they just there at the school or what?

50:58 Speaker 7: Yeah? So there's students the school. I never met them prior to walking into the audition room. Oh wow, I don't remember the piano player, but the drummer his name is Yoshi Okay, that's and I saw him afterwards. And I have a couple of friends that are at that school, and so I hung out with them for a little bit.

51:14 Speaker 16: Yeah.

51:15 Speaker 7: But yeah, so I so I walked in this room with my bass and there's two people I've never met, and I just have to make some music with them and hope they, you know, know the song well enough. So yeah, I was very fortunate that piano player knew the song and he camped me pretty nicely.

51:27 Speaker 16: So what, like, uh, how much pressure do you put on yourself in that situation?

51:32 Speaker 15: Like were you really worried about it or did you approach it more like, I'm just gonna do the best I can and what happens happens or.

51:37 Speaker 7: What I mean, I'm just showing them what I have, and so you know, if they like what I have, then you then that's good. But if they don't like what I have, then I don't really have anything else to show him.

51:46 Speaker 16: So yeah, that's a good way to think about it.

51:48 Speaker 15: I think because that way, you're not psyching yourself out by going in there with the idea that I have to do well, I have to do well. Instead, it's more like I'm gonna show him what I got. If they like it, they like it. If they don't, they don't.

51:59 Speaker 7: Right, So this is a very it's tricky because it's a very subjective, you know, genre, and so like I know, I have some friends that are phenomenal, phenomenal piano players, but they've struggled to make you know, New Hampshire all state because they only take two piano players. And so like they, I've played with them, and I've played with, you know, the piano players that are on top, and personally I think they're better than the piano players that are on top. But you know, the judge it's a different style of piano playing too, so you know, like the judge in the audition room might like, you know, more of a felonious Monk style player instead of someone who's like, you know, more more busy, like more flonious monk, more dissonant, other than Oscar Peterson who's like fits in the cores better better, or you know, maybe Ama Jamal who leaves a lot more space than you know Oscar or you know, like there's a lot of great pianists out there.

52:47 Speaker 15: Yeah, interesting, interesting, all very different. So yeah, yeah, so you're going next school year, that's when you go.

52:55 Speaker 7: So I leave August, so it's the last week August or second to last week August.

52:59 Speaker 15: But yeah, yeah, oh good for you. That's that's fantastic. That's fantastic. Are you Are you nervous at all?

53:05 Speaker 7: Or maybe maybe more so excited?

53:08 Speaker 15: Maybe maybe when it gets closer, you might be a little more have the butterflies in a good way, you know.

53:12 Speaker 16: It's it's exciting.

53:13 Speaker 7: I'm ready, man, I'm ready.

53:14 Speaker 16: I'm exciting.

53:15 Speaker 19: Yeah.

53:15 Speaker 7: I have nine school days left to high school and that I'm done. Man, I'm so excited to be done. Are you really?

53:22 Speaker 16: I was weird.

53:23 Speaker 15: I remember my senior year of high school. I kind of didn't want it to end. I don't know why, but I went to I was fortunate to go to a good school. But uh, but yeah, but no, it's that's very exciting. Before we run out of time, it's the time goes so quick, it's already almost the top of the hour. What should our listeners know about where best to go online to keep up with everything that you're doing.

53:44 Speaker 7: Yeah, so if you search my name up, I'm very fortunate that I'm the only person like on this side of the world with my name, Like, if you punch in my name at Google, I did it last night because and you have to go to the third page of Google before you find someone that's not me, and it's I think the last link in the third page. So if you search my name up on Google, you can find my Instagram, my Facebook, hopefully, my YouTube, my LinkedIn, even though I don't use it. Yeah, you know, like, but I post a lot on my Facebook and Instagram.

54:14 Speaker 7: I think I post more on Facebook than I do on Instagram. Yeah, and then there's my YouTube that I throw stuff up on every now and then. Yeah, so you know, sometimes you'll see stuff on my YouTube. Sometimes you won't. Yeah, the stuff on my YouTube, I don't advertise it well, but it's a really nice resource because if someone you know, looks me up and they want to see, like, okay, can this guy play, and then they see my YouTube and then they decide for themselves, because that's my YouTube is a fairly accurate representation of what I can do.

54:40 Speaker 16: Well, there you go, there you go. But yeah, it's nice to have an unusual name, isn't it.

54:43 Speaker 7: It is very nice?

54:45 Speaker 16: Yeah, very cool. Well, Jack, this has been wonderful. Thank you so much.

54:49 Speaker 15: We'll have to do it again on in the future. I want to keep up with everything that you're doing, so thank you. Thank you for coming in today and sharing some of the music. Great stuff, great stuff, and for having me absolutely absolutely, And before we go, Jenny, dear mind, you've been doing a lot of stuff too. Of course you're always very busy. You want to remind people of your website. You can check out what I'm doing or trouble I'm getting into at gencoffee dot com.

55:11 Speaker 7: J E N N co O F f u I dot com.

55:14 Speaker 15: Yes, very good, And if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at Wmnhradio dot org and my website Matt Connorton dot com. And uh again, thank you to everybody who joined us today, Eli lev and uh King Polo and everybody and Jack Leanos thank you so much.

55:32 Speaker 16: Yeah, and we will talk to y'all a little bit later. Bye, everybody. Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. Now exclusively on w m n H ninety five point three FM. Matt Connorton Unleashed presents the American radio premiere of Gold, the brand new single from the Worry People.

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