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Speaker 15: et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, May twenty four,
Speaker 15: twenty twenty five. By the way, we've had a great
Speaker 15: show so far. Of course, we just had Eli lev
Speaker 15: on in the second hour and that was always amazing
Speaker 15: and I learned something from him. He mentioned he said
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Speaker 16: We have more pollen than anywhere in the world, so
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Speaker 16: of stink. Yes, yes, but yeah. So so we've we
Speaker 16: really enjoyed hanging out with Eli, and of course in
Speaker 16: the first hour we had King Polo with us. And
Speaker 16: right now, let me get that mic up. We have
Speaker 16: Jack Liano says here, Hello Jack, Hello, guys, welcome to
Speaker 16: the program.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 15: You're already getting some love in the chat room. We
Speaker 15: haven't even started yet. Darlene Hill is in the chat
Speaker 15: and said, uh, Jack's show last week was amazing everybody
Speaker 15: needs to see here the PMJ Ensemble. I can't wait
Speaker 15: to hear him live again from our listening room in
Speaker 15: the fall.
Speaker 16: Very nice. Yeah, we had.
Speaker 15: Probably probably less than a year ago. I don't know,
Speaker 15: it all becomes a blur, but yeah, we had Kate
Speaker 15: on the show talking about the listening room at Prayers
Speaker 15: of Nature and uh, yeah, sounds like sounds like your performance.
Speaker 16: There was a success.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I've been working with Katie a little bit and
Speaker 7: we're trying to set something up coming up this fall.
Speaker 7: But I invited her to come see my the group
Speaker 7: I've put together, which is called the Perimeter Jazz Ensemble.
Speaker 7: And this group's been kind of two years in the
Speaker 7: making and it's all come to like it's the concert
Speaker 7: we did recently was like the pinnacle of the group.
Speaker 7: And so, you know, two years ago I went to
Speaker 7: one of my band directors and I was like, hey,
Speaker 7: I I want to start a jazz big band and
Speaker 7: he was like, that's an interesting idea, and he was like,
Speaker 7: let's do it. Let's do it. And so what I
Speaker 7: did is, you know a little bit more backstory is
Speaker 7: the year before that, I had made Jazz All State
Speaker 7: as a sophomore, and I, you know, I was talking
Speaker 7: to a bunch of the guys there, and I got
Speaker 7: a lot of their contact info, like phone numbers, Instagrams
Speaker 7: and whatnot, and you know, I was kind of sad
Speaker 7: because a group that great only rehearsed one weekend a year,
Speaker 7: and so I was thinking, like, okay, what if we
Speaker 7: just do it more right? And so I called a
Speaker 7: lot of them, uh or I called all of them,
Speaker 7: and a lot of them said yes, some of them
Speaker 7: said no. And I called around and asked friends of
Speaker 7: friends to see, you know, like who would be you know,
Speaker 7: fitting to fill certain positions and whatnot. And we had
Speaker 7: a concert at the end of last year. We rented
Speaker 7: out the space at Manchester Community Music School and we
Speaker 7: did a concert there. It was pretty good. If you
Speaker 7: search up my YouTube under Jack Leennis, you know it'll
Speaker 7: be I think two of the oldest links on there.
Speaker 7: And the group sounded really good. And then, you know,
Speaker 7: the challenge we faced this year is eight of our
Speaker 7: players left because they were seniors and they graduated and
Speaker 7: they're off at college now, and so I had to
Speaker 7: fill all of those shoes and we put a we
Speaker 7: got a date at the Rex theater, and you know,
Speaker 7: it was all of it came together. I think it
Speaker 7: was awesome.
Speaker 16: How many so eight of them left? How many in
Speaker 16: the group total?
Speaker 7: So it's a group of eighteen eighteen?
Speaker 10: Wow?
Speaker 16: So you put this together?
Speaker 7: I did.
Speaker 16: Sounds very stressful.
Speaker 7: It's a lot of a lot of work, a lot
Speaker 7: of it's like hurting cats, you know.
Speaker 16: No, I can imagine. Yeah, because you know, it's funny.
Speaker 16: This comes up on the show a lot.
Speaker 15: I explain a lot of bands and I remember, you know,
Speaker 15: being in a band with you know, three four other
Speaker 15: people that can be hard to manage, you know, And
Speaker 15: and a lot of the solo acts who come on
Speaker 15: the show. You know, we'll talk to a lot of
Speaker 15: singer songwriters for example, who used to be in bands.
Speaker 15: We'll talk about, oh, it's so much easier being a
Speaker 15: solo act. But I can't even imagine what it's like. Well,
Speaker 15: like you said, it's like hurting cats, right when you've
Speaker 15: got that many people.
Speaker 7: So, you know, when we have that amount of people,
Speaker 7: there's a lot of challenges that to rise up. You know,
Speaker 7: like if you have say a three or four piece
Speaker 7: band and someone can't make it, then it's like okay,
Speaker 7: maybe we just don't everhearsle today or something like that, right,
Speaker 7: or if you just struggling to figure out a date
Speaker 7: to rehearse, Like I'm I'm playing this four piece band
Speaker 7: on June first. We're doing a show at the Capital
Speaker 7: Center's Bank of New Hampshire Stage and Conquered Nice. So
Speaker 7: it's like kind of more like a folk southern rock,
Speaker 7: like old school country type of show, and it's I'm
Speaker 7: really excited for it. The guy who's running the group
Speaker 7: his names Dakota Smart. But that band, you know, like
Speaker 7: there's four of us and we struggle to like find
Speaker 7: rehearsal times that work for all of us, but with
Speaker 7: the big band of eighteen pieces and plus you know,
Speaker 7: we have two co directors that kind of split everything up. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we what we had to do is we had to
Speaker 7: establish a day of the week that we're gonna meet
Speaker 7: and post a rehearsal schedule. And you know, like there
Speaker 7: were some people that were really really talented players, but
Speaker 7: they said, hey, I can't do it because of the
Speaker 7: like I can't make Monday's work in my schedule, and
Speaker 7: so you know, unfortunately we had to continue on without
Speaker 7: them and find you know, other people who you know,
Speaker 7: we're able to do it. But yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 7: tricky part is like, you know, realizing that you can't
Speaker 7: have some people in the band because of when you
Speaker 7: choose to rehearse right right.
Speaker 16: And then what do you do if?
Speaker 15: So, if you have a show and what if like
Speaker 15: what if somebody gets sick or something. I mean, is
Speaker 15: it possible to go on without with one missing piece
Speaker 15: when it's that many people or what do you do?
Speaker 16: Yes?
Speaker 7: But you know with the big band, everybody's part is different.
Speaker 7: So if you're missing somebody, you're gonna be missing you know,
Speaker 7: a voicing in the harmony or something. Yeah, so you
Speaker 7: know you have to have uh what we call you know,
Speaker 7: you have to have your list of fill ins and
Speaker 7: just people that you you know, you think you can
Speaker 7: call on the day of the show if someone can't
Speaker 7: make it or you know, like another thing is like
Speaker 7: if someone's instrument breaks or someone loses their music. Oh yeah, right,
Speaker 7: Like the day of the show. I had one of
Speaker 7: the players. The show was at noon. I had them
Speaker 7: call me at like nine am. He's like, hey, I
Speaker 7: left my music in my school and this is a Sunday.
Speaker 7: Oh god, So we had to, you know, go through
Speaker 7: a big chain of like calling band directors and be like, hey,
Speaker 7: do you have this band director's number? Can you get
Speaker 7: you know, have access to the school, do you have
Speaker 7: a key? And so we ended up getting him as
Speaker 7: music and all was well, definitely little bit stressful before
Speaker 7: before my big show.
Speaker 16: So yeah, I mean you.
Speaker 15: Sound like, uh, but you sound like you're you handle
Speaker 15: it well and you've got a good attitude about it.
Speaker 15: I don't know what your long term career plans are,
Speaker 15: but if you considered project management, no, because you obviously
Speaker 15: you the fact that you're able to do that and uh,
Speaker 15: you know, because honestly, a lot of people in that
Speaker 15: situation would just say, oh, this is too hard, right,
Speaker 15: you know what I mean. But but but you're committed
Speaker 15: and you do it and and I'm sure it's stressful
Speaker 15: in the moment, but you seem to have a very
Speaker 15: you seem to have the right attitude about it, and
Speaker 15: it sounds like you're very organized.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I wouldn't call myself super organized, but you know,
Speaker 7: there's there's some things that you have to just pay
Speaker 7: attention to and you have to keep in line. You know,
Speaker 7: you have to plan ahead because like with you know,
Speaker 7: like if you have like a three piece gig, you
Speaker 7: can just say, hey, you guys for you this Saturday,
Speaker 7: this venue wants us to play. But with eighteen people,
Speaker 7: somebody's going to be doing something. So the concert at
Speaker 7: the Rex I planned. So this was May of twenty five.
Speaker 7: I planned it, I think June or July of twenty
Speaker 7: twenty four. Okay, so you know, you just have to
Speaker 7: be planning ahead and if you can do that, then
Speaker 7: you know, that's that's one of the tips and tricks
Speaker 7: to running a group like that.
Speaker 15: Yeah wow, So what are what are kind of your
Speaker 15: your long term I mean in terms of that project,
Speaker 15: did you intend to continue that or.
Speaker 7: So I'm not continuing it. I have a successor planned
Speaker 7: and so he's going to keep the group going. Yeah,
Speaker 7: because you know I'm going to college next year.
Speaker 16: Yeah, excellent.
Speaker 7: I've committed to the New School, which is a it's
Speaker 7: a like art and design and music school in Manhattan.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, good for you. Yeah, so it's it's one
Speaker 7: of the top music schools down there. Awesome, and I'm
Speaker 7: really glad I'm able to go.
Speaker 16: So yeah, yeah, that's really cool. What's kind of do
Speaker 16: you know and you may not know yet what your
Speaker 16: kind of long term goals are in terms of a
Speaker 16: music career. Do you have some ideas or Yeah.
Speaker 7: So a lot of my friends right now they're thinking
Speaker 7: of teaching, but you know, I I don't really see
Speaker 7: teaching in my career. Yeah, so you know, I'm kind
Speaker 7: of looking at like just you know, going for a
Speaker 7: performance degree, and you know, like there's for for me,
Speaker 7: there's no real better city, you know, around here than
Speaker 7: New York City for jazz. Sure, sure, because like if
Speaker 7: you look at you know, like where people go and
Speaker 7: travel to go see jazz. You know, you have New
Speaker 7: York City and New Orleans. And New Orleans has a
Speaker 7: lot of tuba, and so as a bass player, I'd
Speaker 7: have to either learn tu but or just go you
Speaker 7: know to New York.
Speaker 15: So right right, that's interesting. Yeah, I was curious about soul.
Speaker 15: Would you say New York is number one for jazz
Speaker 15: and New Orleans number two.
Speaker 7: It's it's a different style of jazz. There's a lot
Speaker 7: of a lot of great artists, I think for modern jazz. Nowadays,
Speaker 7: the West Coast is starting to open up, so a
Speaker 7: little bit of lay in there. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 7: there's a lot of great, a little great artists that
Speaker 7: come from that area. If you listen to a lot
Speaker 7: of modern jazz. There's a saxophone players. His name is
Speaker 7: Joshua Redmond. Yes, phenomenal player. He's from LA so I
Speaker 7: know he spends a lot of time there and he's
Speaker 7: kind of traveling around. I saw him at when I
Speaker 7: went I flew down to New Orleans over I think
Speaker 7: it was the last weekend April and I saw I
Speaker 7: saw him play live at New Orleans Jazz Fest. So yeah,
Speaker 7: it was it was an incredible experience.
Speaker 16: Do you uh, you probably play multiple instruments, I assume right.
Speaker 7: I I dabble a little bit, but I focus mostly
Speaker 7: on bass. So I started playing violin, and I didn't
Speaker 7: really play it much after middle school. So if you
Speaker 7: handed me a violin, I'd be able to play it
Speaker 7: at about a middle school level, Okay. And you know,
Speaker 7: like I I kind of know keyboard, so like if
Speaker 7: you if you give me like a chord sheet, I'll
Speaker 7: be like, Okay, that's this chord, that chord whatnot. But
Speaker 7: I can't sight read on piano like a lot of
Speaker 7: people can.
Speaker 15: Yeah, but just knowing the basics of keyboard, right, Like,
Speaker 15: I've heard so many music instructors and various various people
Speaker 15: who have taught music say that that is such a
Speaker 15: that's such a good foundation to have, you know, even
Speaker 15: if even if you have no interest in actually really
Speaker 15: playing the keyboard, but just to know the basics of it.
Speaker 15: I never learned the basics of it. And I'm I'm
Speaker 15: a bass player, but I you know, I don't have
Speaker 15: the chops to play jazz. You know, I just played
Speaker 15: played a lot of rock bands. But but I've just
Speaker 15: heard a lot of instructors say just knowing basic keyboard
Speaker 15: is just will help you in any other instrument, playing
Speaker 15: any other instrument that that that you could imagine.
Speaker 7: It's such a visual instrument like a lot of instruments.
Speaker 7: Like you know, if you're playing saxophone, you can't like
Speaker 7: you're holding it like right against your body. You can't
Speaker 7: see the court. Yeah, you know, you know you have
Speaker 7: you know, you just put your hand down, you see
Speaker 7: the notes, you see the distance between the notes, you
Speaker 7: see the relationship that they have, and so you know,
Speaker 7: it's it brings like a visual perspective to like the
Speaker 7: music instead of just cheat music.
Speaker 16: That's the way I've heard it described to the way.
Speaker 15: I've heard people say, you know, it teaches you to,
Speaker 15: as you said, to see the relationship between the notes
Speaker 15: when you're forming chords and all that. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 15: Darling Hill in the shot says, the keyboard was a
Speaker 15: game changer for me.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I had a little Cassio keyboard growing up, but I
Speaker 15: didn't learn to play. I don't really learned to play it.
Speaker 15: But so, so you said us some music. So now
Speaker 15: one of these is I assume this is the big
Speaker 15: band Perimeter Jazz Ensemble twenty five. That is, let's see
Speaker 15: so maybe we so this is so how many people
Speaker 15: are in this?
Speaker 7: So there's eighteen eighteen players and two directors.
Speaker 16: Good lord, it just sounds overwhelming to me.
Speaker 7: When you listen to it, you'll be like, I know
Speaker 7: why he spent all that time. This group is just incredible.
Speaker 16: All right, Let's let's let's listen to a little bit
Speaker 16: of this. Let's see what we've what we've got.
Speaker 2: Here standing.
Speaker 17: And alas as I don't know, as a.
Speaker 13: Stand and traversing a.
Speaker 8: N'ing cool, I see what you mean.
Speaker 16: Though, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 15: As you were listening to that, I was thinking about,
Speaker 15: you know, as I was asking you, you know, what
Speaker 15: happens if somebody can't make it, if somebody's sick or whatever.
Speaker 15: And I can kind of see or here as I'm
Speaker 15: listening to it, how it's kind of like Jenga, Right,
Speaker 15: you take one piece out of that, that whole thing
Speaker 15: might collapse.
Speaker 7: Right. So yeah, So, you know, like rehearsals, like if
Speaker 7: someone if one person cancels and rehearsal, then it's like, okay,
Speaker 7: we still have to do rehearsal because the other seventeen
Speaker 7: can make it, you know.
Speaker 16: Yeah, And so.
Speaker 7: Sometimes like during rehearsals, like you'll hear certain players that
Speaker 7: are missing, and it's like, okay, I can hear the
Speaker 7: hole there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: But circling back a little bit, so that tune we
Speaker 7: just played was a Mike Conrad arrangement of I'm Not
Speaker 7: So Sure, which is a tune that Roy Hargrove made
Speaker 7: famous on his two thousand and eight album called Earfood. Okay,
Speaker 7: and so it was, you know, it was adapted for
Speaker 7: Big Band, and I think it sounds awesome.
Speaker 16: By the way.
Speaker 15: Uh oh, here it is. I lost it for a
Speaker 15: second there. Kate in the chat room, she said, she
Speaker 15: has a good question. How many schools are in the PMJ,
Speaker 15: so out of the perimeter jazz and somb but we have.
Speaker 7: There's eighteen players from sixteen different high schools.
Speaker 16: So wow, yeah, that's still that still just amazes me
Speaker 16: that you're able to organize all that. What is PMJ?
Speaker 7: So it's I think you might have gotten it wrong.
Speaker 7: It's p e J. Oh, it's okay, sorry, okay, give
Speaker 7: it a jazz ensemble. Yeah, and then you've got so
Speaker 7: you also sent us all of me yes, and this
Speaker 7: is is this just the three piece spanned? Yeah, So
Speaker 7: it's a little trio I worked with. I worked with
Speaker 7: so I had a drummer and a pianist. And what
Speaker 7: we did is we did for I made the mistake
Speaker 7: of applying to I think sixteen different colleges.
Speaker 4: So did you really?
Speaker 7: I did so, you know a lot of them asked
Speaker 7: for video recordings before you came down for the auditions.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I had to do a bunch of them, and this
Speaker 7: was one of the better ones I think.
Speaker 16: So, yeah, you applied to how many schools?
Speaker 12: I think?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 7: I mean I'm sixteen or seventeen, I've don't remember.
Speaker 16: I've heard of having a safety school, but my god.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So the whole goal was to kind of apply
Speaker 7: to a bunch of them and you know, kind of
Speaker 7: follow the one that gives like the best, you know,
Speaker 7: like money to education.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So you know, like even though I did get some
Speaker 7: schools that are cheaper than the one I'm going to, sure,
Speaker 7: you know, I think what I'm getting while i'm there
Speaker 7: is completely worth it.
Speaker 15: So yeah, yeah, oh that's what that's what matters. Absolutely,
Speaker 15: all right, Cool, let's give this a listen. So this
Speaker 15: is all of me and where was this done?
Speaker 7: So this was done in my basement.
Speaker 16: Oh no kidding. Oh, you got a nice basement set
Speaker 16: up there. It looks like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so we spent we spent a good a good time.
Speaker 7: Because it's a video proportion to it. My dad spent
Speaker 7: a lot of time getting the lighting done. Oh really,
Speaker 7: he's you know, he kind of knows what he's doing
Speaker 7: because he spent before see when he got out of college,
Speaker 7: I want to say, he spent fifteen or twenty years
Speaker 7: working for news companies. So he's like lighting and sound.
Speaker 16: Oh cool, So he worked for that's a good resource
Speaker 16: to have.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he worked for Channel nine in Manchester for a
Speaker 7: long time. Oh and every day, you know, every now
Speaker 7: and then we go see like the Fourth of July fireworks,
Speaker 7: it'll be like I remember I used to stand on
Speaker 7: top of that building and you know it's cool.
Speaker 16: Oh, no kidding, Oh that's awesome, that's awesome. Yeah, let's
Speaker 16: give this listen. So this is this is all of me.
Speaker 18: Bah, that's cool, that's cool.
Speaker 16: Yeah, all of me. Jacquelianis and who else is I
Speaker 16: on that with you?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 7: I have a drummer's name sabat Ashton Keene and the
Speaker 7: piano player is Nick Vallatin. Both of them were in
Speaker 7: the Perimeter Jazz Ensembles.
Speaker 16: Oh okay, gotcha believe it or not.
Speaker 7: Piano player Nick is a year under me and he's
Speaker 7: going to be taking it over next year.
Speaker 16: Oh that's he's the guy. Huh, it's all on him.
Speaker 7: I said to him, I said, it's your problem now,
Speaker 7: and we all joke about it. Yeah, because the amount
Speaker 7: of you know, amount of effort and wrangling the herd
Speaker 7: of cats is it's a lot.
Speaker 16: No doubt.
Speaker 15: Yeah, we were playing that from YouTube and I'm just
Speaker 15: you know, I'm a bass player, so I'm just kind
Speaker 15: of watching your fingers and kind of an od to
Speaker 15: be honest with you, because so I've never learned to
Speaker 15: play an upright bass. I've never actually I have never
Speaker 15: even touched him upright bass. And I'm just watching you
Speaker 15: and it's just especially when you have to go way
Speaker 15: up the neck.
Speaker 7: It's like, yeah, wow, so impressive to a lot of
Speaker 7: people are like, oh, how do you do it? You know,
Speaker 7: there's no frets, there's no dots, like what you know,
Speaker 7: how do you do it? And while I started in violin,
Speaker 7: which had no frets and no dots, and so I
Speaker 7: went from violin to bass, and frets are weird to me.
Speaker 7: If you hand me an upright bass or not an
Speaker 7: upright babe, you me electric bass, I'll be like, what
Speaker 7: do these dots mean? Yeah, Like I know the two
Speaker 7: in the middle is the octave, but like.
Speaker 16: Does it almost feel like the frets themselves are in
Speaker 16: the way a little bit?
Speaker 7: Yeah, a little bit in the way. And the fact
Speaker 7: that it's sideways is different, you know, because like instead
Speaker 7: of you know, having your hand, you know, completely upright,
Speaker 7: you're just like you're watching your hand now instead of
Speaker 7: your hand being almost behind your head. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 7: like it's weird, Yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah, your hands must be pretty calloused, I would imagine.
Speaker 7: Yeah they are. They are.
Speaker 16: Yeah, no, that's cool though, that's cool. And then you've
Speaker 16: got another thing that you sent us. Let's see what's this.
Speaker 7: So it's the Nick Old Soul Spencer Vand.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm curious about this.
Speaker 7: So this is a blues group. Okay, we we've done
Speaker 7: a little bit, you know, bits and pieces here and there.
Speaker 7: The drummer, Sebastian Keen is on this one as well.
Speaker 7: He's a very talented drummer. He's does everything. So he's
Speaker 7: going he's committed to Berkeley next year actually going there.
Speaker 7: And then the guitar is of this group. His name
Speaker 7: is Nick Spencer, and everyone calls him Old Soul because
Speaker 7: he dresses like an old man and so, you know,
Speaker 7: and he's his playing is very reminiscent of some of
Speaker 7: the you know, older blues artists as well, so you
Speaker 7: know a lot of local blues artists have have found
Speaker 7: him and really like his playing. And so now he's
Speaker 7: at Berkeley and he's the guitarist of the blues band
Speaker 7: called Frankie Boy in the Blues Express or now the
Speaker 7: Blues Express. They changed the name. Okay, but so this
Speaker 7: blues trio is just kind of something we've we've been doing.
Speaker 7: I met Nick through some friends because they were at
Speaker 7: Bedford High School and they needed a bass player. So
Speaker 7: there's a group of Bedford kids and then they're like, well,
Speaker 7: we need a bass player. So they called me and
Speaker 7: I was like, yeah, sure, I'll show up and so
Speaker 7: we hung out and Nick and I were like instant friends,
Speaker 7: and so you know, we hit it off and we've
Speaker 7: spent a lot of time together over the years. Last
Speaker 7: year for April vacation because you know, New Hampshire schools
Speaker 7: get out the last week in April, and so we
Speaker 7: decided to drive down to New Orleans and spend a
Speaker 7: week there. So it's me and then three other friends,
Speaker 7: and then a couple more flew in and so we
Speaker 7: drove down. It was a two day drive. They drove
Speaker 7: down for two days and then we spent three days
Speaker 7: in the city and we drove two days back. Wow,
Speaker 7: So it was you know, it was a lot of driving.
Speaker 14: Yea.
Speaker 7: We became very close because of that though, So of course,
Speaker 7: you know, but Nick and I we've done a lot together,
Speaker 7: and you know, I anticipate us doing some more stuff
Speaker 7: in the future. So the clip that you have is
Speaker 7: was recorded live from Frank Walsh's TV show Talking Tunes.
Speaker 16: So, okay, where does that air?
Speaker 7: So it's it airs. It's a little bit south of Boston. Okay, okay, yeah, cool,
Speaker 7: all right, let's give this a listen. I'm very curious
Speaker 7: to hear this and making tunes the Nick Old School
Speaker 7: Spencer Band featuring Jaquionos. What what's the name of the song? So,
Speaker 7: the name of the song is Walking by Myself. It's
Speaker 7: an old Jimmy Rogers tune. Okay, you get to hear
Speaker 7: me sing.
Speaker 16: Oh nice? Are you leader or backing vocal?
Speaker 7: I'm lead?
Speaker 16: Oh you're oh? This is you singing lead?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 16: Excellent?
Speaker 7: Singing and playing bassis One of the hardest things I've
Speaker 7: ever done is very difficult.
Speaker 16: Yeah all right, very curious here this, So let's give
Speaker 16: this a spin. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: That's a Muddy Waters tune.
Speaker 1: I learned that from Bob Mark gooldan personally.
Speaker 6: Walking why myself? If you understand, I just want to.
Speaker 16: Be your love and man, I love you, Yes, I
Speaker 16: love you.
Speaker 4: Oh my heart and soul whipus, treat you full my
Speaker 4: weight and gone. You know, I love you. You know
Speaker 4: it's true, Give you all of my love? It what
Speaker 4: more can I do?
Speaker 6: Walking by MYSELFA hope you'll understand.
Speaker 4: I just want to be a loving man. What you got, Nick?
Speaker 4: You know I love you. You know it's true. Give
Speaker 4: you all of my love? And what more can I do?
Speaker 6: Walking by myself? You'll understand? I just want to be
Speaker 6: your loving man. Let me chirp out something.
Speaker 4: You know I love you, you know it's true. Give
Speaker 4: you all of my love?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 4: What more can I do?
Speaker 6: Logging bozo, Oh you understand?
Speaker 4: I just want to be your love and man?
Speaker 7: My work is he there?
Speaker 19: We go?
Speaker 7: Very cool?
Speaker 16: That's awesome.
Speaker 15: Yeah, jacque le uh leono's my saying that correct le
Speaker 15: Jacque Liana's on lead vocal there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's that's that song. I really like that song
Speaker 7: because it's one verse and a chorus.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I can't remember anything more than that, man, the amount
Speaker 7: of times I've tried to remember more than that. I
Speaker 7: think there's a clip of me floating out there somewhere
Speaker 7: of me absolutely messing up. Falso, Prison Blues is really
Speaker 7: really it's an easy song.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think it's three or four verses and then that's it.
Speaker 7: I can't remember. I like by the words, you know,
Speaker 7: they're supposed to go through in your brain, through your
Speaker 7: mouth to the mic. They just they just disappear. They
Speaker 7: leave my brain. I don't know where they go. I
Speaker 7: don't know if in my leg or something.
Speaker 15: But well, I like you were saying, though you've it's
Speaker 15: challenging to, you know, play bass and sing at the
Speaker 15: same time. Is that something that's gotten easier for you
Speaker 15: over time.
Speaker 7: Or just like everything, the more you practice it the more. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: so I get I guess so yeah, but it's still
Speaker 7: like learning new songs is tricky because I will forget
Speaker 7: lyrics names too. I'm terrible with really.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Yeah, when you when you play a bass solo and
Speaker 15: a song like that, are you do you just kind
Speaker 15: of play your own thing for the solo or are
Speaker 15: you trying to replicate what was what the original if
Speaker 15: there was a bass solo on the original version of that.
Speaker 7: Song or yeah, so for that song, I was just
Speaker 7: doing my own thing, you know. Some like I've been
Speaker 7: working on, like for more jazz stuff is like transcribing
Speaker 7: like what certain artists are playing. Okay, so you know,
Speaker 7: like like there's a lot of saxophone solos that I
Speaker 7: think are really great and a lot of great jazz records,
Speaker 7: and so I'm trying to take those and transcribe them
Speaker 7: and be able to play them on bass. Oh it's
Speaker 7: not easy because you could play a lot of notes
Speaker 7: really fast, and saxophone sure, and bassis you cannot play
Speaker 7: a lot and it's really fast. It's a very it's
Speaker 7: it's a big instrument. And so yeah, you know, playing
Speaker 7: sixteen sixteenth note runs or thirty second note runs are
Speaker 7: very difficult.
Speaker 16: That's interesting.
Speaker 15: That's another thing that never really occurred to me about
Speaker 15: it until you said it. Like I said, I've never
Speaker 15: played an upright bass, but until you said that, I
Speaker 15: never really thought of it that way.
Speaker 16: But yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Like like I do a lot of orchestra work
Speaker 7: as well. Yeah, I'm part of the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra.
Speaker 7: Oh you are yeah, wow cool, And so like there'll
Speaker 7: be violin parts that have like just littered with sixteenth
Speaker 7: notes and thirty second notes and eighth notes and then
Speaker 7: I get quarter notes in the bass part.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And you know, like I used to play violin, Like
Speaker 7: if you give me a violin, I can play like
Speaker 7: notes faster because it's a smaller instruments, way easier to move.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so that makes sense, that makes sense. You sent
Speaker 15: us one other thing here labeled audition three two.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So this this is a clip from one of my auditions.
Speaker 7: I was lucky enough they let me record it live
Speaker 7: and I thought it sounds good enough to put on
Speaker 7: the radio.
Speaker 16: So, oh okay, all right, let's check this out. Yeah,
Speaker 16: where was this done?
Speaker 7: So? This was done in New York City? Oh, no, kidding,
Speaker 7: So this was actually at the New School. Oh so
Speaker 7: this was the one of This is a song from
Speaker 7: the audition that got me in there.
Speaker 16: So this was this is what we're gonna play here.
Speaker 16: This was a pivotal moment. Yeah, right, I could have been.
Speaker 7: I was very nervous.
Speaker 16: I can imagine, I can imagine. All right, let's check
Speaker 16: this out.
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Speaker 15: So I'm really curious. So when when you're in that
Speaker 15: situation where you're auditioning, and again this is obviously a
Speaker 15: high pressure moment for you, who are the other the
Speaker 15: other two people who are playing with you, the drummer
Speaker 15: and the and the piano player.
Speaker 16: Are they just there at the school or what?
Speaker 7: Yeah? So there's students the school. I never met them
Speaker 7: prior to walking into the audition room. Oh wow, I
Speaker 7: don't remember the piano player, but the drummer his name
Speaker 7: is Yoshi Okay, that's and I saw him afterwards. And
Speaker 7: I have a couple of friends that are at that school,
Speaker 7: and so I hung out with them for a little bit.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 7: But yeah, so I so I walked in this room
Speaker 7: with my bass and there's two people I've never met,
Speaker 7: and I just have to make some music with them
Speaker 7: and hope they, you know, know the song well enough.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I was very fortunate that piano player knew
Speaker 7: the song and he camped me pretty nicely.
Speaker 16: So what, like, uh, how much pressure do you put
Speaker 16: on yourself in that situation?
Speaker 15: Like were you really worried about it or did you
Speaker 15: approach it more like, I'm just gonna do the best
Speaker 15: I can and what happens happens or.
Speaker 7: What I mean, I'm just showing them what I have,
Speaker 7: and so you know, if they like what I have,
Speaker 7: then you then that's good. But if they don't like
Speaker 7: what I have, then I don't really have anything else
Speaker 7: to show him.
Speaker 16: So yeah, that's a good way to think about it.
Speaker 15: I think because that way, you're not psyching yourself out
Speaker 15: by going in there with the idea that I have
Speaker 15: to do well, I have to do well. Instead, it's
Speaker 15: more like I'm gonna show him what I got. If
Speaker 15: they like it, they like it. If they don't, they don't.
Speaker 7: Right, So this is a very it's tricky because it's
Speaker 7: a very subjective, you know, genre, and so like I know,
Speaker 7: I have some friends that are phenomenal, phenomenal piano players,
Speaker 7: but they've struggled to make you know, New Hampshire all
Speaker 7: state because they only take two piano players. And so
Speaker 7: like they, I've played with them, and I've played with,
Speaker 7: you know, the piano players that are on top, and
Speaker 7: personally I think they're better than the piano players that
Speaker 7: are on top. But you know, the judge it's a
Speaker 7: different style of piano playing too, so you know, like
Speaker 7: the judge in the audition room might like, you know,
Speaker 7: more of a felonious Monk style player instead of someone
Speaker 7: who's like, you know, more more busy, like more flonious monk,
Speaker 7: more dissonant, other than Oscar Peterson who's like fits in
Speaker 7: the cores better better, or you know, maybe Ama Jamal
Speaker 7: who leaves a lot more space than you know Oscar
Speaker 7: or you know, like there's a lot of great pianists
Speaker 7: out there.
Speaker 15: Yeah, interesting, interesting, all very different. So yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 15: you're going next school year, that's when you go.
Speaker 7: So I leave August, so it's the last week August
Speaker 7: or second to last week August.
Speaker 15: But yeah, yeah, oh good for you. That's that's fantastic.
Speaker 15: That's fantastic. Are you Are you nervous at all?
Speaker 7: Or maybe maybe more so excited?
Speaker 15: Maybe maybe when it gets closer, you might be a
Speaker 15: little more have the butterflies in a good way, you know.
Speaker 16: It's it's exciting.
Speaker 7: I'm ready, man, I'm ready.
Speaker 16: I'm exciting.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I have nine school days left to high school and
Speaker 7: that I'm done. Man, I'm so excited to be done.
Speaker 7: Are you really?
Speaker 16: I was weird.
Speaker 15: I remember my senior year of high school. I kind
Speaker 15: of didn't want it to end. I don't know why,
Speaker 15: but I went to I was fortunate to go to
Speaker 15: a good school. But uh, but yeah, but no, it's
Speaker 15: that's very exciting. Before we run out of time, it's
Speaker 15: the time goes so quick, it's already almost the top
Speaker 15: of the hour. What should our listeners know about where
Speaker 15: best to go online to keep up with everything that
Speaker 15: you're doing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so if you search my name up, I'm very
Speaker 7: fortunate that I'm the only person like on this side
Speaker 7: of the world with my name, Like, if you punch
Speaker 7: in my name at Google, I did it last night
Speaker 7: because and you have to go to the third page
Speaker 7: of Google before you find someone that's not me, and
Speaker 7: it's I think the last link in the third page.
Speaker 7: So if you search my name up on Google, you
Speaker 7: can find my Instagram, my Facebook, hopefully, my YouTube, my LinkedIn,
Speaker 7: even though I don't use it. Yeah, you know, like,
Speaker 7: but I post a lot on my Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 7: I think I post more on Facebook than I do
Speaker 7: on Instagram. Yeah, and then there's my YouTube that I
Speaker 7: throw stuff up on every now and then. Yeah, so
Speaker 7: you know, sometimes you'll see stuff on my YouTube. Sometimes
Speaker 7: you won't. Yeah, the stuff on my YouTube, I don't
Speaker 7: advertise it well, but it's a really nice resource because
Speaker 7: if someone you know, looks me up and they want
Speaker 7: to see, like, okay, can this guy play, and then
Speaker 7: they see my YouTube and then they decide for themselves,
Speaker 7: because that's my YouTube is a fairly accurate representation of
Speaker 7: what I can do.
Speaker 16: Well, there you go, there you go. But yeah, it's
Speaker 16: nice to have an unusual name, isn't it.
Speaker 7: It is very nice?
Speaker 16: Yeah, very cool. Well, Jack, this has been wonderful. Thank
Speaker 16: you so much.
Speaker 15: We'll have to do it again on in the future.
Speaker 15: I want to keep up with everything that you're doing,
Speaker 15: so thank you. Thank you for coming in today and
Speaker 15: sharing some of the music. Great stuff, great stuff, and
Speaker 15: for having me absolutely absolutely, And before we go, Jenny,
Speaker 15: dear mind, you've been doing a lot of stuff too.
Speaker 15: Of course you're always very busy. You want to remind
Speaker 15: people of your website. You can check out what I'm
Speaker 15: doing or trouble I'm getting into at gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 7: J E N N co O F f u I
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Speaker 15: Yes, very good, And if you miss any part of
Speaker 15: today's show, it will be up in just a little
Speaker 15: bit at Wmnhradio dot org and my website Matt Connorton
Speaker 15: dot com. And uh again, thank you to everybody who
Speaker 15: joined us today, Eli lev and uh King Polo and
Speaker 15: everybody and Jack Leanos thank you so much.
Speaker 16: Yeah, and we will talk to y'all a little bit later. Bye, everybody.
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