May 18, 2025 • 42 mins
WDIAs' Stan Bell sat down with some of the Award-Winning Central High School Jazz Band members, along with Dr. Ollie Liddell, Director of Bands.
Dr. Liddell is in his 13th year at Central--"THE" High School. His student-musicians earned 1st place in the New York-based competition recently
Dr. Liddell is in his 13th year at Central--"THE" High School. His student-musicians earned 1st place in the New York-based competition recently
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
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Speaker 5 (00:37):
Oh way?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
All right, Oh everybody, it's hard to keep my composure.
I got these I've got these music officionados in the studio.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I well, ladies, gentleal, we have as our special people
spotlight representatives of central high schools. I know they want
to say the high school Doc donand Dale in the
builder and let me put the mic on you. You
you like the lab of lit. Say you want the lava?
The lava little mic? So I put it on him.
Good morning, sir, Good morning man.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Let me ask you four words, how does it feel?
Feels good? Feels good, y'all play, y'all play jazz.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Feels good?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Young is over there? Oh there's one that's a man man.
Two more supported words in the language. Thank you, Thank
you for carving out time to be with w D
I A man you. I know you at first when
I reached out to you, You're like, well, Stan, I
kind of want to come, but I gotta check with you.
Gotta check with some folks. You have to get this
(01:40):
kind of stuff approved. Oh, yes, come up closer to
the mic. I got the live always got to check
with boss lady first. But yeah, miss principal, miss Epps
ain'ty Epps.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I got to check with her.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
She got to say, okay first, Now, how long has
she been principal over there?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
This is actually I think a fresh year first, the
second year, and I'm starting to I'm starting to, you know,
they starting to run the other day. No, she's been
there my whole time out of Central. But she wasn't
the head principal's.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Color Greg but color that's why he retired. Right yes, sir,
into the sunset, and miss Amy came right on in
there and continued you with Carroll Legacy in Central High School.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And so obviously she said, yes, approved, gone out, gone
over there, Yes, sir, watch this staying.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Bill got you sit.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
She did.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Like I met away at Greg mccallor's retirement. It was
really nice, man. A lot of the warriors in the building, man,
and a lot of students of Ms mccolor and you
know from variouschools that he talked.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So man, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
For being here. I appreciate that. How's the family. Everybody's good.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
My son he's about to finish up fifth grade, go
to middle school. And my daughter's doing well. My stepdaughter's
Javier Jordan. And my my big baby, my oldest, she's
in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
She's twenty eight, so gone big baby two eight.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah. I'm making a good life for self, no doubt.
That's good. She's a Ladell's. You got a lot of
pressure with that last name, sir. So you are doctor right,
that's correct? Is that PhD, e d D.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
What talk to the MD?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
pH d in music education, PhD in musical music education. Sir, man,
you're in the field that you were born to do. Man,
you you made for this and it's showing parents, proud
of you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Your parents.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Oh, yes, they actually came up to New York and
uh they came the first night, and uh they got
lost in the city, so they missed our first performance.
And then they came back. We made the top ten.
I told them, Hey, we made the top ten. I
got some tickets if y'all want to come, so they can't.
They were able to stay and change their flights and uh,
and we're able to catch the next show. That's good
(03:44):
old mom and dad or y mama, Oh, Mama and dad.
Many good the original their original Doctor Ladelle's good morning
to your parents. And I know doubt they may be listening.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So I got to be proud of their son. Man,
are you the only child?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Oh, No, six of us, one of four brothers, and
I have two sisters.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Man, four brothers, two sisters.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So it's six four boys, two girls. Man, you're right,
what are you in the middle.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I'm the second oldest, but it's like i'm the oldest.
But that's a different old story.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, let me say this, man, you represent your family
that the Dale named. Well, you're looking good, man, sounding,
playing and good appreciated appreciate it, man, and now you
have the task to introduce these gentlemen to your left
into my right.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
All right, I got some good guys here. These are
junior members of some of the junior members of the
jazz band seniors graduating tonight. So I ain't finnite. They
got graduation. So we have alto saxophonist Jackson.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Hankins said, yeah, Alto sax go ahead.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
And I got one of our bassist, Matthew Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
More like Matthew McConaughey, man, man, man, you man, you
got the right name, Matthew.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And you play what man? The bass guitar?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No about the guitar, the bass guitar, okay, the bass
guitar or the bass horn?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The upright? Oh, the upright? Who got this for them?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Who got The last of the students that came today
was Corbin Brassel.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He's our drummer, one of our drummers, Corbyn Brazzle. You're
going to the drummers. Step up to the mic, man,
I got to hit the hold. I fail.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't know if I had your mic on the
first time. You have to go back around, cause I
know you about six tow you about to stip down
little on man uh and you play drum you're a drummer.
You didn't bring your sticks with you this morning. I
just so happened to have an extra pair. In the
bad Guy. You preferred two bees seven a's, yeah you know, okay,
(05:55):
the one you don't you don't want to well, you
kind of want to fatter sticks, so you want to
be the heavy.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You like to be.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The two bees, So you want the seven a's okay.
Before when you use the two bes, that's when your
marchin or what talk stand? Yeah, so that if I
if I gave you the age, what you do for me?
Would you do? Let's talk drums? Can you do a
five stroke open and closed roll? Your fight to roll?
(06:23):
Open and clothes?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know what I mean? But open the clothes.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You start off and then you gray and then you
bring it back down. How about a seven stroke roll?
Same thing, no pressure. Now when I handed these stings,
will you be able to do a flammer diddle? Can
you do a flat well, y'a don't have to snare
drum wood, so you're gonna have to do But what
about a paradiddle?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Are you can see that?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I see what y'all want y'all got a drama. I
got a I got wood wins is the sax wood
winding brass. That's what when hello talking. I'm in the
house now and I've got a upright bass player, right man.
So here's what I want to do. You know, I'm
(07:03):
just saying congratulations all over the place. But when we
come back, I've got to take another break. I got
take another break. Well we come back. Want to know
the experience from these students, you know, this journey and
when they called the school's name, when they called your
group's name as Numero Uno, how did it make it feel?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Hold that thought? Hold that thought.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We're talking to the award winning Central High School, the
high school, the jazz band, got a few members in
the studio, and of course the talented and they're very accomplished.
The inimitable doctor Oli Ladell is in the building. Be
right back and we're back, see just like that. So
we're doing a little tutorial and behind the scenes, Matthew
Corven and Jackson they kind of watched me back.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Here the making of a radio show. They watching out
you do all this?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, you gotta be an air traffic controller too. You
have the justice wind screen all the big ain't nobody's
just stuf. Y'all know about this stuff. So y'all go back, say,
just in case the music thing of world got you,
come back and be a DJ. I gotta get up
rid in the morning though you do this thing. But
I know you guys are great, man, Ali Lidell, Yes, sir,
I see your five beta Sigama pair from there.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
You're all over there? Is that true? You are sick?
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Absolutely? The guys going like, what are you talking about
over there?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Look, look, it's always on you, whether you whether I
see the blue and white and all that. Man, congratulations
on that part too.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You want to throw your chapter out there that you
were you pass.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Or whatever players at Alpha Beta chapter in Jackson, Mississippi
at Jackson State University.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Okay, See, I love sir all day every day.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
And then, uh I'm probably payer for Sigma chapter and
not DeSoto County. Uh so that's my graduate chapter and
uh so I love baby.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So you are five yeah, gone, shut of my what
that job be saying?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
This guys looking at you like, well, they know they
probably see the sigma what they didn't know about it?
That's right, man, that's good. You're staying active, no doubt.
When you mentioned the graduate chapter there, I'm not chapter.
That's good man. I know they're excited about it. I
think I saw a picture and the way I knew,
of course, I saw you take it. You took a
picture I don't know, a group picture with some of
your fraternity brothers something I guess recently.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
The Memphis chapter UH tiled Sigma. They donated some money
to help us get to New York. They were one
of the groups that help and I want to thank
them for their donation to us and that that helped
us get there. I mean, UH were public school. This
trip to New York is extremely expensive, especially being in
six days. Uh this is like double the length of
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their normal UH competition because they had doubled the bands
and so it's extremely expensive. These kids don't are rich
and so UH that donations from the Memphis community is
what helped us to get there, get home and look
good doing.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It, man, And you did so.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Shout out to five by Sigma Fraternity Incorporated for the help.
And there were there others who kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I don't know about organization, but just individuals that get
the time go fund me, and that we had raised
the money.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I think in about two weeks we had we had
everything raised.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Uh So Memphis really came out and droves and hopefully,
uh not hopefully, they say, we got to say that
we're going back next year, so we're gonna need that
support again.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Uh So just just put.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
You get to go back next year is like you
turning champions or fish. You just got start from scratch.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Shout it from the bottom.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Now we're here, Yes, sir, you come you and you're
going back in there, sir. Never scared what I'm talking about.
The warriors, they never ski. Man. It's a lot of
green and there's a gold, green and gold up in here.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Man.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I see you, man, Kelly.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Green old gold, and that was Kelly Green.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I used to wear Kelly Green card to getting sweater
back in the day. That color was popping. I see
I see it? Sure what telling them?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I going over?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What that shirt say? I can't read this far away?
Memphis Central High School jazz. Wow, who's that a picture
of silhouette or something?
Speaker 9 (10:56):
Silhouette of the great trumpeter, Wins Marshalis.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Here's mister Martseller's man leader trumpet X growing.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Now, I man, that's a nice looking shirt.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You got another one in a large man the DJ,
We should we get you one. I like that man,
DJ Cold Bliddy, all right, sending an invoice. Shoot, but
if it goes to supporting you guys, man, this money
well spent.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Congratulations. So let's go around the room now and talk
to these super bad accomplished talk to these virtuosos essentral
you know, now, let me before I bring you on,
I'm start I think when I got mad, But before
we bring them on, Doctor Liddell, how many members in.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
The jazz band?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
We have a total of twenty six members, but it
was twenty four that made the trip to New York.
We have two younger, younger kids. They're not quite ready
for the prime time. You'll be okay, will be just
how yeah, But I'm just really proud of these kids.
I mean, this is what we do with Central High School.
(12:06):
I mean this is it's a school of winners. So
you know, if you got a child, I'm telling you
want to do some winners, You're gonna send them to
Central High School?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Right, No wrong with a little bit of shameless self promotion.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Of course, yea look, it's it's it's it's the truth.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I mean, literally, right now you're gonna get you're getting
a world class literally world class music education. You're getting
with the I mean it's it doesn't come. It's not easy,
it's it's it's and we don't have the resources that
those those other schools have. They'll have jazz faculty, they'll
have four and five jazz directors, they'll have uh, four
(12:42):
and five jazz bands every student on private lessons. Uh,
they got me, they got mister Hunter, they have the
Memphis Jazz Workshop with Steve Lee.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But it takes a community. But this is you come
to Central, you're gonna get.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
That world class And I'm just not just putting out
the world class music education.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Let's bring in Matt, come on close to the Michael
put this back. So your instrument, mattw what's the last name,
by the way, Montgomery, Montgomery.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Strong name.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What's your instrument? You Saya bak? You put upright bass?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I played both electric and upright.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You played the electric too. You played Afender, the Gibson,
the what you do? You play that Fender? And then
when you come to the jazz tip you you bring
that big upright? How many strings on that upright?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Is it four? Four? Man? Man? How so far you
can handle that thing? You'll be plucking?
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Man?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Let me see your hands. Man, you got the big hands,
got the callous on I know you got. If he
ain't got, no, he ain't playing?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Man?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
How long you been playing?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Uh? I started electric like five years ago and upright
around like two and a half years.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I think, Man, were you playing any other instrument prior
to the upright?
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Bas?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Uh? I played alto in middle school? What sax?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
What a minute?
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Jackson?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I was any good?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
You ever? Hear him?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Try to pick up your that's pretty good commody right there, Jackson? Yeah, man, man,
that's good.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Man.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So well, let me so when Matt tim so when
you first you so the first round when they get
the top ten? Is that how to go before you advanced?
How's that working?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Because I know you don't just jump automatic you won
first place? How does that work?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Bringing bring out Jackson in there, talk to us about
that journey and what happened in New York. Well, yeah, sure, So.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
We start up with thirty bands and then it goes
to ten three and the one.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Man.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
I think that first round personally is the most intense.
This is everyone is each other, everybody going at it exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Man.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Thirty bands, thirty bands, and some of them not even
from here. Some of them were from where for instance, Yeah,
you had Australia, Japan and Spain.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah what.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Doing? Oh yeah, go as far as a straight Sydney man.
But you know what the experience you got to member
and where else? Remember oh man straight?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
So but the experience is you got to meet some
of these folks too. Did you developed relationships? Did you
you know, shake hands and all that stuff? And then
the war is on. It's all I'm gonnat some but
it's going down. So man, what an experience. Your parents
proud of you?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Man? Oh yeah, and they love it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Who's that first call? First phone call made too? When
you got that number one spot.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
My first phone call? So my parents were there, so
to them first.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You know, yeah. So so they got it right off
the they got it right off the top when you announced,
I know, they were screaming and hollering and jumping for
Joe and Bryan and you in their arms.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And doctor Dell was like, yeah, I told y'all.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Bring let me get my man over here, mister brads
Corbin in the building, see you with man, man all
y'all looking good man, y'all. I can just see that
pride all over you. Man, I see that pride, the
proud and everything over you. So, brother Corbyn, your instrument drums,
as we talked before, you can play all them anything.
(16:14):
Well you play anything that require stix, right, So but
what is your primary instrument?
Speaker 11 (16:20):
But my primary My primary instrument is drums Marching Band,
the Quins and then but I'm a percussionist all around.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
So back up you said, look Quin's school me on that.
What's that means? So that's five drums qu quinn quinnech quinn.
Oh see you got to break it down man. Uh yeah,
you can play for five drums together.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
Do you do?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
They have that, et cetera. So you know we are now.
Marching Band won the national championship, right.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
It was a lot of stuff going on competition this year.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Undefeated season, undefeated season.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Man, you're like sports man, y'all, undefeated man and undisputed.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Champions man. That's all right.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So all right, so here's what I want to do.
I'm gonna let you shout out your parents and y'all
go go around the room. Since you're on the mic
right now, go ahead, Corby, shout your folks out.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
Well, I'm gonna shot my family. I know they listening
because they were bugging me last night about it. So, Mama,
I love you, my Hunts, thank you so much for being.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
There for me. Listen, gives give me them names? Uh
Lolita Brassel, that's mama, right, Low Leader, Miss Low Leader.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Good morning? Thanks for listening. W I so proud of
your son. Keep going, Yeah, my Hunts, Thelma and Sandra Cooper,
bel Ma, Sandra Cooper.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Hey, sisters, how you gonna leave your sister?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Man? I did?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I got it, She'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That's right, Matt, Matt, shout them out.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Give me some loved ones and folks to support your
low this journey.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Thank you, Brooke.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Barnett, Brian Montgomery, Uh, Robert Barnett, my aunt everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's Jackson. Come on and get on that microphone.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
I'm gonna say some of this in Portuguese because my
mom is from Brazil. Jane Hankins and Eddie Hankins, John Dich.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
What okay the Portuguese probably, well right there, yeah, say
it again, said Jim. That's just love you.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh okay, I'm taking notes then I don't want to
be about lingual too. All right Portuguese? Are you fluent? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
take a few notes.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
All right, everybody, man, we're so glad to have them.
We got Matthew, Corbyn and Jackson and the action for
your satisfaction. And band director is so it's your director
of bands or is it jazz period?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Director of bands?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I teach all of the bands AP music theory that
seniors only an AP class.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Like you could take it under class, we could take
it to but generally I like seniors for a reason.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
They get more, they're more prepared for the class. So
I like the seniors in that class.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
But we have occasionally have a few underclass but take
We also have a pre AP music theory class as
well to get them ready, you know, getting ready so
the kids gonna go go to college major and music
that they'll be able to breeze through college music theory
of taking that class.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Man, And how long have you been on faculty there Central?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
This is year thirteen at Central, So that's been there
a while, and probably that you go.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
The jokers laughed, they call you O g Man. I
was at East High School.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That was my first job when I moved to Memphis,
I was at East, and then I started teaching in Mississippi.
So I did two years in middle school in Missispi
where I moved here and been in Central ever since then.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's a beautiful place, man, all right. So we're talking
about very special guests this morning. They earned and I
said earned, They earned it, they deserve it, and got
the weekend going on now and again they earned first
place at the prestigious thirtieth annually essentially Ellington High School
Jazz Band Competition and festival. And you know, we're incredibly
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proud of them. This journey we've been talking about and
that's still a performance. Obviously, they got the first place
statue and in addition to taking home the top prize
the w I Listeners, the band earned several standout honors
first place overall Outstanding Trumpet Section, Outstanding Trombone Section. That's
doctor Liddell's primary instrument in trumbone is that tuned in.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
The f's tune in se concert pitch, concert pitch.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Okay, I'm trying to get in there. How's your almost sure?
By the way, wonderful. They also received Outstanding Rhythm Section,
Outstanding Alto sax Soloist Jackson.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Jackson h.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Outstanding Trumpet, Uh but yeah, I got some accolades bad.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It's just falling off the doc goal chart.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Man, but outold saxophone soloist.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
What am I forgetting?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Outstanding Outstanding trombone Soloists Marquise and Outstanding trumpet solos as
well in uh Kingston.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, Marquis C right, Marquis C Marcy.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And he wants to make sure everybody, No Marquis after
you're right with out you that's right? R qq e yes,
oh yeah you go.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
We're talking Central High School, the high school man, the
award winning jazz band in the house. Now when I
come back, we're taking phone calls. I'm gonna put the
hit sets on these gentlemen. You can ask them anything
you want to, all right, nine on one five three
five nine three for two eight hundred five zero three
nine three for two or eight three five three five
nine three for two, be right back.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I love that call.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
When the voice of God says w D I like
what he does. That part just give me chills. We're back.
Ladies and gentlemen were talking to an award winning jazz
band of Central High School, home the Warriors, that big
school on Bellevue, AH. And they're doing some big things
at that big school. Now, before I get to the
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phone lines, that's still a little history, doctor Ladell. The
reason why they call Central the high school is why
Central was.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
The first school in the city. Now that's that's actually
a disputed fact. It's considered the high school. So he
had the H on their on their letterman jackets were
still done. The H on our uniforms are. It's everywhere
in the school because we're the high school.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Nobody is lobby. Nobody's lobby to making a C on
the U. They said, no, there's a lot of c's
out there. You wanna make sure where you put the
H of the I mean the first thing I saw,
first time I saw that head.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It was decades ago. Of course, I said, they kind
of age. But I'm in Central and.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Somebody kind of broke it down to me.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You know, everywhere we go, people where's the age for.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Man?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I like it though.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Okay, so we got that straight out of the way.
Let me make sure I got this taken care of
all right, not on one five three five nine three
four two eight hundred and five zero three nine three
four two or eight three three a three three five
three five nine three two. Let me go delicately and
fold line. We got some four waiting up in this thing.
Let me go here the im on it. You're first
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on the radio, and you with our special guests.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You're on the air.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Go ahead, Okay, good morning everybody. So, uh, stand up bass?
Play there? Since uh a stand up baseds familia us
kind of like a vilin? Do you also play the dinin.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Big violin? Go ahead, I'm tell you, Michael, go ahead.
Uh I only played bass.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Oh but but would you be able to play a
violin since their simulus I.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Think like the strings on violent are different. Stout up
to like, you know, like figure it out, but that
probably could just like no practice.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, you're trying to make a violin virtual also out
of matt But you know what, look one one instruments
about like six feet tall, the other about what two
v yeah, sixteen? But yeah, you know what, that's a
good question, though, Melvane, thank you so much man. Yeah, yeah,
that's how you do it. Back to the fall lines
in the radio, Who's next?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Go ahead.
Speaker 12 (24:20):
I'm a fan of standing man because he believes in
delivering great radio Good morning.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I received it, David.
Speaker 12 (24:29):
Yeah in the flex in the f I cannot believe
I'm calling. And in between a North Side Cougar and
a Central High Warrior has a missus proud messis technical
high school graduate.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah yeah, you know, the North.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
To the South Warriors Cougars and yellow jock. Yellow jacket said, hey,
put some put some respects on it.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
Let me say, I'm not gonna call y'all the high school.
I just say school because I school y'all a little.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
How about that.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
I have.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
Never been more proud to hear that news of uh
some Memphis students, Oh hello to the to the to
the to the band as well, students coming from Memphis,
home of the blues, as much as jazz artists revered
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the blues going up to.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
New York and showing them how it's done.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I'm a big jazz fan.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
That's my favorite music general, and I really am proud
of y'all and hope you're all the best and going forward,
I just had a couple of questions.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I'd be gone, uh and I can.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Hang up to the stand.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
What what?
Speaker 12 (26:00):
What are the band members favorite musicians? One person mentioned
Winton Marcella's who is the reason why I am a.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Jazz fan quite honestly, And I put out and oh
what is it? What is that?
Speaker 12 (26:16):
And I put out in the universe when Reverend Whalen.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Was in that I was unable to make the sensional concert.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
But I think.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Impossible that we give you.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
A venue at the holler and Center or some place. Well,
I can come and pay to hear these talented members play.
So that's pretty much it.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
What oh, oh, what did y'all play?
Speaker 7 (26:43):
What?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
What?
Speaker 12 (26:43):
What a selections been to the day that y'all pay
y'all played?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So I ain't gonna stand. I much appreciate you, hey da.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
First off, David, thank you so much for your kind words,
and we really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
This was for Memphis, man, That's the thing I said
on stage.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
It is something about the spirit of this city that
came out of these students while they played, and it
really showed the spirit.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
This is is deep.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
This goes back to the Manassas High School under Jimmy Lunsford.
Jimmy Lunsfords were of the greatest jazz big band leaders
there were.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He just died atn early age. He died in nineteen
forty seven.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
I think that really, but he would probably be in
the same breakfast account Basie or Duke Ellington had he,
you know, lived a little longer. But that he started
the band in Manassas High School, took his students from
Manassas to New York and they grew up and they
played in the Cotton Clude originally the Chickasaw Syncopates and
then became the Jimmy Lusford Band.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But that is like we took that same path. He
talked about the blues.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
This that is the foundational foundation of all popular music,
not just jazz, but everything.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
It is.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Blues permeates all. It's even found in hip hop, believe
it or not. Wow.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
And uh so that thank you for that. So the
songs we played, we played weeb O Barbada. I know,
it's a funny name. It's kind of a play off
the word off the word b bops Gary Mulligan's Jerry
Mulligan song.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Uh. Then we played Rockaby River.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
It's got a bluesy songs Duke Ellington, and then the
last one was Feetbone. That's when we played at the finals.
Uh the final round was feetbone. Uh the one that
did knocked them dead. Ye that feetbone?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Like that Jackson, I the tak a few more calls
in the lines lighted up like a Christmas tree in there.
Let's go here, water in the radio.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Yeah, go ahead, walk on, flock on real quick mind
you then gave us two days of extended mix. Good morning,
Doctor Lidell and the students.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I'll be quick.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
My song graduated, My song graduated from Central High School
in two thousand and four. I remember, like yesterday. That
was a great phenomenal school.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I will be quick.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
I missed the free concert. Congratulations on you guys. When
I'm like David, I want to know where and when
you guys are gonna perform for the public. And man,
it ain't nothing like a live band. I love a
live thing, especially Jays. I love Bronie James. I think
(29:28):
you got some young Bronie James in the studio. Young
guys which like that. Who's gonna mount to Bronie James?
Speaker 7 (29:35):
A man out.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Standing for a phenomenal job. If you can just tell
me where y'all won't be when y'all won't be nicked world,
so the public once again can come out and enjoy
the marvelous band. You got one more gain. Congratulations, Doctor
Lidell and the students of be Central High School got
the lockstand words.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, so we do have something lined up.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
It's not the dates are not Insterstone, but we're trying
to do something to levit shell. The caveat to that is,
you know, school's about to be out and these our kids,
uh seniors graduate today tonight actually, so give it up
for them.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, popping circumstances. Y'all playing by the way.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
At this time, but they are. But but we do
have something playing because these kids want to play together.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
But on the subject of that, these three gentlemen here
are also partner. These are these kids are not They
got their own group many they have to tell you about.
They got their own group that's separate from.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
The school Montgomery Tree. They called themselves Sole Ingredients, the Lego.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That's all right, Look, let me take another phone call.
All right, yeah you asked that one. Good back to
the phone line as we go. W d I, Hey,
good morning, Central High School Jazz Band in the studio.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Yes, good morning, stand, good morning, doctor Ledell, and good
morning Jackson, Matthew and Corbyn.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
I am so proud of you all.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I mean so proud of you all.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
And I'm extra proud to say that my granddaughter is
a junior there at Central High School.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Her name is mel Cox.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Right, we're good, We're good and.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Yeah, and she loves Central High School and she's been
getting a good education there. She's doing grill well, taking
a lot of ap classes. But anyway, you all are
a shining light on Memphis, Tennessee. You all are the
lights that we need at this time. And I was
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watching you all perform. I was looking at YouTube and
I was looking at you all performed. As it said,
it was an mbd N A concert and jazz is
that the one in New York.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
We did that a month earlier. That was both I
went ensemble and jazz band performed there. That was the
Minority Band Directors National Association, which is UH. We had
to submit recordings for that as well, and then we
got accepted to perform and there was an invitational and
you had some of the best win ensembles and jazz
bands around the country there as well.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Well.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I can tell you all from looking at that video
and also looking at you all on the news to
Pips that they showed you all not only perform.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Well, but you all looked good boys.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
The way you all was your postor I was looking
at all of that, your postor your dress. I mean,
it's excellence, excellunce.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
We are so proud of you all, and I know.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
It's been hard work for you, mister doctor Ladelle.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
I know you're looking forward to a summer break.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
And it's well deserved so you can get up.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
For next year.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
And I tell you, I wish I had known. I'm
gonna have to get me a because she didn't tell
me the funds were being raised for you all to
go to New York, because I definitely will a contributed.
But I'm gonna stay on point, you know, for coming
up this year for you.
Speaker 9 (33:35):
All to go and whatever you all need.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I definitely got to support you, and I hope other
Mithians will support you all to ask off to your
young men, enjoy your summer, stay safe, stay good, make
right choices and thanks again, doctor Lodale.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
Thank you staying.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Have a good weekend to NBC back to the fall
lines we go WD. I a good morning on the radio. Yay,
good morning, fine, thank you comming.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
Man you on here, Yeah, yes, sir, good morning, Doctor Laddell,
into into your members morning. All right, Hey, look I was,
I was listening to you all, and I just kind
of smiled to myself because you know, over the years,
all the schools has always competed against one another in sports, football, basketball,
whatever it may have been. But me being a true
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cougar to the bone, I can tell you all this
morning that I'm very proud of you all. I'm proud
of you warriors. You all went to New York, you
competed against bands from around the world, and you brought
it back home. The way I feel, doctor Laddell, I
feel like week and I think.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
The city of the city very proud of you all.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Congratulations to you all. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
All right, comment man, let me take one off. I
take this last break man number love come man, thank
you so much. I like I said, when I when
I hear them and I look at them and hear
all of this, man, I just just incredible, man, you guys,
incredible man. Change that h to. I then let them
in jacket. Let'm taking on the pall car here it
don't take a break, don't leave me out, eagle morning.
(35:05):
Thanks of waiting and holding all that good stuff. It's
your time now.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
How are you doing that the Ring Claire radio? Doctor Mandell?
How are you doing, sir?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
Man.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
You sounded great into the three musical megals. That's with you, man,
when you came back, you made the whole city trial.
I can't say enough. I know you guys are getting accolades.
What the things that y'all done? And David took one
of my questions away, so I won't ask what y'all
what y'all played to win? But I'm so proud. But
(35:37):
you know what, doctor Nadelle, I think about and I
like movies. Did you ever see that movie called Whiplash?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Of course, no, I'm not throwing music chairs across the room.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Okay, I just didn't ask that question. That was that
was a great move. I love watching that movie, man,
and I was wondering, do music instructors actually do that?
That would just part they be fined.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
They will be fired quickly if they did stuff in
that movie.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
But Uh, we are tough.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
You know.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
I am tough on the kids because I pushed him
because I know what they're capable of.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
When they're owning.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
These kids are own, I know what they're capable of,
and I have high standards because I expect how big
things from them because they have such height.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
But no, I'm not throwing music chairs at them. I'm
not slapping over the face.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
See Okay, my last ones to tell you, sir, I
want to ask just real quick. Well, Dowgi is one
of my favorite all time. You smooth that person. I
went to see Pieces of a Dream and they had
this prodigy thirteen fourteen year old god by the name
of Justin Lee's shows.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Ever heard of him, No, sir, but he needs to
come to Central thirteen or fourteen.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Come on if you if you get a chance, full
about this is Justin Lee's show. And he played the
keyboard for Pieces of a Dream. Now, when I first
saw the guy, I thought the guy was probably I did,
but kept put things together on the sea. I'll tell
you what I have never seen a part of you,
baby Prince or Stevie Wonder the guy was. He blew
(37:19):
everybody away, as always saying thank you for allowing me
to speak you guys, have a beautiful, blessed, safe and
healthy weekend and hoping we hear more from you.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Thank you all right, Thank you, Prince Charles. All right
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(37:46):
All right, just ay ready to wrap it up in
the winning moments of the show. Thank you wd I
listeners for just kind of being here and indulging me,
if you will in this special feature that we do
every Friday and today New Exception Man Central his cool,
I'm the Warriors, the high School, the jazz band, accolades.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Props, kudos to you.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I was talking to my good friend Alex Coleman over
in news Channel three broadcast journalist de Stortin there. I
think you, guys, that has headed his way a little
bit later on this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I believe so. Man. That's great.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Man, Man, take your tour, man, Man, get the roses Man.
Get the flowers.
Speaker 10 (38:21):
Man.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Uh, you guys are incredible. You won the whole thing. Literally,
you won the whole thing incredibly. The Central High Jazz
Band did it. Uh final words, let's get some get
some remarks from the band director, doctor Ally Little Well.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
First off, just thank you City of Memphis for supporting us.
Thank you for your kind words. Uh and congratulations to us.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
And uh, just we.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
We're still gonna we're gonna were gonna do this again
next year. So we're gonna need your support, your financial support.
We're gonna need support. Send send your children to Central
High School, tell you you go get a world class
music education. And uh, just thank you so much. We
are humbled and blessed and thankful for everything that's been
given to us.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
So thank you. Let's go around the.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Road court Bed Brinsel, Trump, extraorder that productionist, extraord to that,
your words, shout outs anything.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (39:19):
Like Doc said, I'm really thankful for the City of Memphis.
We couldn't have done it without him. I'm really thankful
for doctor hard work.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
He put in.
Speaker 11 (39:26):
The longe nights, the sweaty nights, the I don't know, man,
all of the stuff. We worked hard.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
And he paid off. No daty man. Yes, uh, come
on over here, Matt Matthew Montgomery email. Yeah, but you've
got to say, Doc, step up to that. Mike h
mter upright, bass player.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Now, I want to I want to thank everyone.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I can't believe we did it. I know it's kind
of man. You have sometimes had to step back and
think about it.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Man, we we.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Did He was like, Jackson pitched me.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Man, we want.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
So Man, your parents proud of you, officely right, man, Man,
and then everybody proud of you. Man, the dog proud
of you, Man, your dog, the cat proud of you.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Mann, the fish.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Looking at you through the in the quarrum like, man,
you did it, you did it, You did it, Montgomery.
But yeah, man, congratulations, go ahead, come on around. Jackson, Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (40:33):
I just want to say that I'm so deeply honored
to play for the city because this was really for Memphis,
right and the people of Memphis. So I want to
thank the community. I want to say it was an
honor to play for all of you. I want to
thank the band and all the other band members, especially
those seniors. Thank you so much. And I also want
to say if you are thinking about high school still.
(40:55):
If you're on the fence, this better push you over
right because we need some you know, trumpet players and
piano players.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
They know what I mean, right you boys all that?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Jackson the building man, Thank you anything, and you want
to say in Portuguese for.
Speaker 13 (41:12):
You go, I seen yourself familiating your Dealoa chim to
the moon translated.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I love you all.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Thank you so very much for support along this journey. Yep, right,
better fake you than make it man, Thank you, Thank
you guys. Man, keep on the good work man. This
wd I listener writes hats off to Central High School
Jazz Band, a couple of exclamation points behind it. Congratulations
on your weddings. If you want exclamation points, you represent
(41:47):
the highest honor in public education. That's coming from Dennis Jones. Man,
how about that?
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Thank you, Thank you, Dennis. He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
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Speaker 5 (00:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
All right, Oh everybody, it's hard to keep my composure.
I got these I've got these music officionados in the studio.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I well, ladies, gentleal, we have as our special people
spotlight representatives of central high schools. I know they want
to say the high school Doc donand Dale in the
builder and let me put the mic on you. You
you like the lab of lit. Say you want the lava?
The lava little mic? So I put it on him.
Good morning, sir, Good morning man.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Let me ask you four words, how does it feel?
Feels good? Feels good, y'all play, y'all play jazz.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Feels good?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Young is over there? Oh there's one that's a man man.
Two more supported words in the language. Thank you, Thank
you for carving out time to be with w D
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I reached out to you, You're like, well, Stan, I
kind of want to come, but I gotta check with you.
Gotta check with some folks. You have to get this
(01:40):
kind of stuff approved. Oh, yes, come up closer to
the mic. I got the live always got to check
with boss lady first. But yeah, miss principal, miss Epps
ain'ty Epps.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I got to check with her.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
She got to say, okay first, Now, how long has
she been principal over there?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
This is actually I think a fresh year first, the
second year, and I'm starting to I'm starting to, you know,
they starting to run the other day. No, she's been
there my whole time out of Central. But she wasn't
the head principal's.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Color Greg but color that's why he retired. Right yes, sir,
into the sunset, and miss Amy came right on in
there and continued you with Carroll Legacy in Central High School.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And so obviously she said, yes, approved, gone out, gone
over there, Yes, sir, watch this staying.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Bill got you sit.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
She did.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Like I met away at Greg mccallor's retirement. It was
really nice, man. A lot of the warriors in the building, man,
and a lot of students of Ms mccolor and you
know from variouschools that he talked.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So man, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
For being here. I appreciate that. How's the family. Everybody's good.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
My son he's about to finish up fifth grade, go
to middle school. And my daughter's doing well. My stepdaughter's
Javier Jordan. And my my big baby, my oldest, she's
in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
She's twenty eight, so gone big baby two eight.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah. I'm making a good life for self, no doubt.
That's good. She's a Ladell's. You got a lot of
pressure with that last name, sir. So you are doctor right,
that's correct? Is that PhD, e d D.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
What talk to the MD?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
pH d in music education, PhD in musical music education. Sir, man,
you're in the field that you were born to do. Man,
you you made for this and it's showing parents, proud
of you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Your parents.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Oh, yes, they actually came up to New York and
uh they came the first night, and uh they got
lost in the city, so they missed our first performance.
And then they came back. We made the top ten.
I told them, Hey, we made the top ten. I
got some tickets if y'all want to come, so they can't.
They were able to stay and change their flights and uh,
and we're able to catch the next show. That's good
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old mom and dad or y mama, Oh, Mama and dad.
Many good the original their original Doctor Ladelle's good morning
to your parents. And I know doubt they may be listening.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So I got to be proud of their son. Man,
are you the only child?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Oh, No, six of us, one of four brothers, and
I have two sisters.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Man, four brothers, two sisters.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So it's six four boys, two girls. Man, you're right,
what are you in the middle.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I'm the second oldest, but it's like i'm the oldest.
But that's a different old story.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, let me say this, man, you represent your family
that the Dale named. Well, you're looking good, man, sounding,
playing and good appreciated appreciate it, man, and now you
have the task to introduce these gentlemen to your left
into my right.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
All right, I got some good guys here. These are
junior members of some of the junior members of the
jazz band seniors graduating tonight. So I ain't finnite. They
got graduation. So we have alto saxophonist Jackson.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Hankins said, yeah, Alto sax go ahead.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
And I got one of our bassist, Matthew Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
More like Matthew McConaughey, man, man, man, you man, you
got the right name, Matthew.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And you play what man? The bass guitar?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No about the guitar, the bass guitar, okay, the bass
guitar or the bass horn?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The upright? Oh, the upright? Who got this for them?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Who got The last of the students that came today
was Corbin Brassel.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He's our drummer, one of our drummers, Corbyn Brazzle. You're
going to the drummers. Step up to the mic, man,
I got to hit the hold. I fail.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't know if I had your mic on the
first time. You have to go back around, cause I
know you about six tow you about to stip down
little on man uh and you play drum you're a drummer.
You didn't bring your sticks with you this morning. I
just so happened to have an extra pair. In the
bad Guy. You preferred two bees seven a's, yeah you know, okay,
(05:55):
the one you don't you don't want to well, you
kind of want to fatter sticks, so you want to
be the heavy.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You like to be.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The two bees, So you want the seven a's okay.
Before when you use the two bes, that's when your
marchin or what talk stand? Yeah, so that if I
if I gave you the age, what you do for me?
Would you do? Let's talk drums? Can you do a
five stroke open and closed roll? Your fight to roll?
(06:23):
Open and clothes?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know what I mean? But open the clothes.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You start off and then you gray and then you
bring it back down. How about a seven stroke roll?
Same thing, no pressure. Now when I handed these stings,
will you be able to do a flammer diddle? Can
you do a flat well, y'a don't have to snare
drum wood, so you're gonna have to do But what
about a paradiddle?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Are you can see that?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I see what y'all want y'all got a drama. I
got a I got wood wins is the sax wood
winding brass. That's what when hello talking. I'm in the
house now and I've got a upright bass player, right man.
So here's what I want to do. You know, I'm
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just saying congratulations all over the place. But when we
come back, I've got to take another break. I got
take another break. Well we come back. Want to know
the experience from these students, you know, this journey and
when they called the school's name, when they called your
group's name as Numero Uno, how did it make it feel?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Hold that thought? Hold that thought.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We're talking to the award winning Central High School, the
high school, the jazz band, got a few members in
the studio, and of course the talented and they're very accomplished.
The inimitable doctor Oli Ladell is in the building. Be
right back and we're back, see just like that. So
we're doing a little tutorial and behind the scenes, Matthew
Corven and Jackson they kind of watched me back.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Here the making of a radio show. They watching out
you do all this?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, you gotta be an air traffic controller too. You
have the justice wind screen all the big ain't nobody's
just stuf. Y'all know about this stuff. So y'all go back, say,
just in case the music thing of world got you,
come back and be a DJ. I gotta get up
rid in the morning though you do this thing. But
I know you guys are great, man, Ali Lidell, Yes, sir,
I see your five beta Sigama pair from there.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
You're all over there? Is that true? You are sick?
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Absolutely? The guys going like, what are you talking about
over there?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Look, look, it's always on you, whether you whether I
see the blue and white and all that. Man, congratulations
on that part too.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You want to throw your chapter out there that you
were you pass.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Or whatever players at Alpha Beta chapter in Jackson, Mississippi
at Jackson State University.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Okay, See, I love sir all day every day.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
And then, uh I'm probably payer for Sigma chapter and
not DeSoto County. Uh so that's my graduate chapter and
uh so I love baby.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So you are five yeah, gone, shut of my what
that job be saying?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
This guys looking at you like, well, they know they
probably see the sigma what they didn't know about it?
That's right, man, that's good. You're staying active, no doubt.
When you mentioned the graduate chapter there, I'm not chapter.
That's good man. I know they're excited about it. I
think I saw a picture and the way I knew,
of course, I saw you take it. You took a
picture I don't know, a group picture with some of
your fraternity brothers something I guess recently.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
The Memphis chapter UH tiled Sigma. They donated some money
to help us get to New York. They were one
of the groups that help and I want to thank
them for their donation to us and that that helped
us get there. I mean, UH were public school. This
trip to New York is extremely expensive, especially being in
six days. Uh this is like double the length of
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their normal UH competition because they had doubled the bands
and so it's extremely expensive. These kids don't are rich
and so UH that donations from the Memphis community is
what helped us to get there, get home and look
good doing.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It, man, And you did so.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Shout out to five by Sigma Fraternity Incorporated for the help.
And there were there others who kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I don't know about organization, but just individuals that get
the time go fund me, and that we had raised
the money.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I think in about two weeks we had we had
everything raised.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Uh So Memphis really came out and droves and hopefully,
uh not hopefully, they say, we got to say that
we're going back next year, so we're gonna need that
support again.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Uh So just just put.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
You get to go back next year is like you
turning champions or fish. You just got start from scratch.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Shout it from the bottom.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Now we're here, Yes, sir, you come you and you're
going back in there, sir. Never scared what I'm talking about.
The warriors, they never ski. Man. It's a lot of
green and there's a gold, green and gold up in here.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Man.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I see you, man, Kelly.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Green old gold, and that was Kelly Green.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I used to wear Kelly Green card to getting sweater
back in the day. That color was popping. I see
I see it? Sure what telling them?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I going over?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What that shirt say? I can't read this far away?
Memphis Central High School jazz. Wow, who's that a picture
of silhouette or something?
Speaker 9 (10:56):
Silhouette of the great trumpeter, Wins Marshalis.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Here's mister Martseller's man leader trumpet X growing.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Now, I man, that's a nice looking shirt.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You got another one in a large man the DJ,
We should we get you one. I like that man,
DJ Cold Bliddy, all right, sending an invoice. Shoot, but
if it goes to supporting you guys, man, this money
well spent.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Congratulations. So let's go around the room now and talk
to these super bad accomplished talk to these virtuosos essentral
you know, now, let me before I bring you on,
I'm start I think when I got mad, But before
we bring them on, Doctor Liddell, how many members in.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
The jazz band?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
We have a total of twenty six members, but it
was twenty four that made the trip to New York.
We have two younger, younger kids. They're not quite ready
for the prime time. You'll be okay, will be just
how yeah, But I'm just really proud of these kids.
I mean, this is what we do with Central High School.
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I mean this is it's a school of winners. So
you know, if you got a child, I'm telling you
want to do some winners, You're gonna send them to
Central High School?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Right, No wrong with a little bit of shameless self promotion.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Of course, yea look, it's it's it's it's the truth.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I mean, literally, right now you're gonna get you're getting
a world class literally world class music education. You're getting
with the I mean it's it doesn't come. It's not easy,
it's it's it's and we don't have the resources that
those those other schools have. They'll have jazz faculty, they'll
have four and five jazz directors, they'll have uh, four
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and five jazz bands every student on private lessons. Uh,
they got me, they got mister Hunter, they have the
Memphis Jazz Workshop with Steve Lee.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But it takes a community. But this is you come
to Central, you're gonna get.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
That world class And I'm just not just putting out
the world class music education.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Let's bring in Matt, come on close to the Michael
put this back. So your instrument, mattw what's the last name,
by the way, Montgomery, Montgomery.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Strong name.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What's your instrument? You Saya bak? You put upright bass?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I played both electric and upright.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You played the electric too. You played Afender, the Gibson,
the what you do? You play that Fender? And then
when you come to the jazz tip you you bring
that big upright? How many strings on that upright?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Is it four? Four? Man? Man? How so far you
can handle that thing? You'll be plucking?
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Man?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Let me see your hands. Man, you got the big hands,
got the callous on I know you got. If he
ain't got, no, he ain't playing?
Speaker 9 (13:44):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Man?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
How long you been playing?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Uh? I started electric like five years ago and upright
around like two and a half years.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I think, Man, were you playing any other instrument prior
to the upright?
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Bas?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Uh? I played alto in middle school? What sax?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
What a minute?
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Jackson?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I was any good?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
You ever? Hear him?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Try to pick up your that's pretty good commody right there, Jackson? Yeah, man, man,
that's good.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Man.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So well, let me so when Matt tim so when
you first you so the first round when they get
the top ten? Is that how to go before you advanced?
How's that working?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Because I know you don't just jump automatic you won
first place? How does that work?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Bringing bring out Jackson in there, talk to us about
that journey and what happened in New York. Well, yeah, sure, So.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
We start up with thirty bands and then it goes
to ten three and the one.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Man.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
I think that first round personally is the most intense.
This is everyone is each other, everybody going at it exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Man.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Thirty bands, thirty bands, and some of them not even
from here. Some of them were from where for instance, Yeah,
you had Australia, Japan and Spain.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah what.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Doing? Oh yeah, go as far as a straight Sydney man.
But you know what the experience you got to member
and where else? Remember oh man straight?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
So but the experience is you got to meet some
of these folks too. Did you developed relationships? Did you
you know, shake hands and all that stuff? And then
the war is on. It's all I'm gonnat some but
it's going down. So man, what an experience. Your parents
proud of you?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Man? Oh yeah, and they love it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Who's that first call? First phone call made too? When
you got that number one spot.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
My first phone call? So my parents were there, so
to them first.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You know, yeah. So so they got it right off
the they got it right off the top when you announced,
I know, they were screaming and hollering and jumping for
Joe and Bryan and you in their arms.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And doctor Dell was like, yeah, I told y'all.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Bring let me get my man over here, mister brads
Corbin in the building, see you with man, man all
y'all looking good man, y'all. I can just see that
pride all over you. Man, I see that pride, the
proud and everything over you. So, brother Corbyn, your instrument drums,
as we talked before, you can play all them anything.
(16:14):
Well you play anything that require stix, right, So but
what is your primary instrument?
Speaker 11 (16:20):
But my primary My primary instrument is drums Marching Band,
the Quins and then but I'm a percussionist all around.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
So back up you said, look Quin's school me on that.
What's that means? So that's five drums qu quinn quinnech quinn.
Oh see you got to break it down man. Uh yeah,
you can play for five drums together.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
Do you do?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
They have that, et cetera. So you know we are now.
Marching Band won the national championship, right.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
It was a lot of stuff going on competition this year.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Undefeated season, undefeated season.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Man, you're like sports man, y'all, undefeated man and undisputed.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Champions man. That's all right.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So all right, so here's what I want to do.
I'm gonna let you shout out your parents and y'all
go go around the room. Since you're on the mic
right now, go ahead, Corby, shout your folks out.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
Well, I'm gonna shot my family. I know they listening
because they were bugging me last night about it. So, Mama,
I love you, my Hunts, thank you so much for being.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
There for me. Listen, gives give me them names? Uh
Lolita Brassel, that's mama, right, Low Leader, Miss Low Leader.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Good morning? Thanks for listening. W I so proud of
your son. Keep going, Yeah, my Hunts, Thelma and Sandra Cooper,
bel Ma, Sandra Cooper.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Hey, sisters, how you gonna leave your sister?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Man? I did?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I got it, She'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That's right, Matt, Matt, shout them out.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Give me some loved ones and folks to support your
low this journey.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Thank you, Brooke.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Barnett, Brian Montgomery, Uh, Robert Barnett, my aunt everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's Jackson. Come on and get on that microphone.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
I'm gonna say some of this in Portuguese because my
mom is from Brazil. Jane Hankins and Eddie Hankins, John Dich.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
What okay the Portuguese probably, well right there, yeah, say
it again, said Jim. That's just love you.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh okay, I'm taking notes then I don't want to
be about lingual too. All right Portuguese? Are you fluent? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
take a few notes.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
All right, everybody, man, we're so glad to have them.
We got Matthew, Corbyn and Jackson and the action for
your satisfaction. And band director is so it's your director
of bands or is it jazz period?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Director of bands?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I teach all of the bands AP music theory that
seniors only an AP class.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Like you could take it under class, we could take
it to but generally I like seniors for a reason.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
They get more, they're more prepared for the class. So
I like the seniors in that class.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
But we have occasionally have a few underclass but take
We also have a pre AP music theory class as
well to get them ready, you know, getting ready so
the kids gonna go go to college major and music
that they'll be able to breeze through college music theory
of taking that class.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Man, And how long have you been on faculty there Central?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
This is year thirteen at Central, So that's been there
a while, and probably that you go.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
The jokers laughed, they call you O g Man. I
was at East High School.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That was my first job when I moved to Memphis,
I was at East, and then I started teaching in Mississippi.
So I did two years in middle school in Missispi
where I moved here and been in Central ever since then.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's a beautiful place, man, all right. So we're talking
about very special guests this morning. They earned and I
said earned, They earned it, they deserve it, and got
the weekend going on now and again they earned first
place at the prestigious thirtieth annually essentially Ellington High School
Jazz Band Competition and festival. And you know, we're incredibly
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proud of them. This journey we've been talking about and
that's still a performance. Obviously, they got the first place
statue and in addition to taking home the top prize
the w I Listeners, the band earned several standout honors
first place overall Outstanding Trumpet Section, Outstanding Trombone Section. That's
doctor Liddell's primary instrument in trumbone is that tuned in.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
The f's tune in se concert pitch, concert pitch.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Okay, I'm trying to get in there. How's your almost sure?
By the way, wonderful. They also received Outstanding Rhythm Section,
Outstanding Alto sax Soloist Jackson.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Jackson h.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Outstanding Trumpet, Uh but yeah, I got some accolades bad.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It's just falling off the doc goal chart.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Man, but outold saxophone soloist.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
What am I forgetting?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Outstanding Outstanding trombone Soloists Marquise and Outstanding trumpet solos as
well in uh Kingston.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, Marquis C right, Marquis C Marcy.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And he wants to make sure everybody, No Marquis after
you're right with out you that's right? R qq e yes,
oh yeah you go.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
We're talking Central High School, the high school man, the
award winning jazz band in the house. Now when I
come back, we're taking phone calls. I'm gonna put the
hit sets on these gentlemen. You can ask them anything
you want to, all right, nine on one five three
five nine three for two eight hundred five zero three
nine three for two or eight three five three five
nine three for two, be right back.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I love that call.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
When the voice of God says w D I like
what he does. That part just give me chills. We're back.
Ladies and gentlemen were talking to an award winning jazz
band of Central High School, home the Warriors, that big
school on Bellevue, AH. And they're doing some big things
at that big school. Now, before I get to the
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phone lines, that's still a little history, doctor Ladell. The
reason why they call Central the high school is why
Central was.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
The first school in the city. Now that's that's actually
a disputed fact. It's considered the high school. So he
had the H on their on their letterman jackets were
still done. The H on our uniforms are. It's everywhere
in the school because we're the high school.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Nobody is lobby. Nobody's lobby to making a C on
the U. They said, no, there's a lot of c's
out there. You wanna make sure where you put the
H of the I mean the first thing I saw,
first time I saw that head.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It was decades ago. Of course, I said, they kind
of age. But I'm in Central and.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Somebody kind of broke it down to me.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You know, everywhere we go, people where's the age for.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Man?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I like it though.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Okay, so we got that straight out of the way.
Let me make sure I got this taken care of
all right, not on one five three five nine three
four two eight hundred and five zero three nine three
four two or eight three three a three three five
three five nine three two. Let me go delicately and
fold line. We got some four waiting up in this thing.
Let me go here the im on it. You're first
(23:06):
on the radio, and you with our special guests.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You're on the air.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Go ahead, Okay, good morning everybody. So, uh, stand up bass?
Play there? Since uh a stand up baseds familia us
kind of like a vilin? Do you also play the dinin.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Big violin? Go ahead, I'm tell you, Michael, go ahead.
Uh I only played bass.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Oh but but would you be able to play a
violin since their simulus I.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Think like the strings on violent are different. Stout up
to like, you know, like figure it out, but that
probably could just like no practice.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, you're trying to make a violin virtual also out
of matt But you know what, look one one instruments
about like six feet tall, the other about what two
v yeah, sixteen? But yeah, you know what, that's a
good question, though, Melvane, thank you so much man. Yeah, yeah,
that's how you do it. Back to the fall lines
in the radio, Who's next?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Go ahead.
Speaker 12 (24:20):
I'm a fan of standing man because he believes in
delivering great radio Good morning.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I received it, David.
Speaker 12 (24:29):
Yeah in the flex in the f I cannot believe
I'm calling. And in between a North Side Cougar and
a Central High Warrior has a missus proud messis technical
high school graduate.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah yeah, you know, the North.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
To the South Warriors Cougars and yellow jock. Yellow jacket said, hey,
put some put some respects on it.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
Let me say, I'm not gonna call y'all the high school.
I just say school because I school y'all a little.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
How about that.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
I have.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
Never been more proud to hear that news of uh
some Memphis students, Oh hello to the to the to
the to the band as well, students coming from Memphis,
home of the blues, as much as jazz artists revered
(25:34):
the blues going up to.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
New York and showing them how it's done.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I'm a big jazz fan.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
That's my favorite music general, and I really am proud
of y'all and hope you're all the best and going forward,
I just had a couple of questions.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I'd be gone, uh and I can.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Hang up to the stand.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
What what?
Speaker 12 (26:00):
What are the band members favorite musicians? One person mentioned
Winton Marcella's who is the reason why I am a.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Jazz fan quite honestly, And I put out and oh
what is it? What is that?
Speaker 12 (26:16):
And I put out in the universe when Reverend Whalen.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Was in that I was unable to make the sensional concert.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
But I think.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Impossible that we give you.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
A venue at the holler and Center or some place. Well,
I can come and pay to hear these talented members play.
So that's pretty much it.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
What oh, oh, what did y'all play?
Speaker 7 (26:43):
What?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
What?
Speaker 12 (26:43):
What a selections been to the day that y'all pay
y'all played?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So I ain't gonna stand. I much appreciate you, hey da.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
First off, David, thank you so much for your kind words,
and we really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
This was for Memphis, man, That's the thing I said
on stage.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
It is something about the spirit of this city that
came out of these students while they played, and it
really showed the spirit.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
This is is deep.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
This goes back to the Manassas High School under Jimmy Lunsford.
Jimmy Lunsfords were of the greatest jazz big band leaders
there were.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He just died atn early age. He died in nineteen
forty seven.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
I think that really, but he would probably be in
the same breakfast account Basie or Duke Ellington had he,
you know, lived a little longer. But that he started
the band in Manassas High School, took his students from
Manassas to New York and they grew up and they
played in the Cotton Clude originally the Chickasaw Syncopates and
then became the Jimmy Lusford Band.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But that is like we took that same path. He
talked about the blues.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
This that is the foundational foundation of all popular music,
not just jazz, but everything.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
It is.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Blues permeates all. It's even found in hip hop, believe
it or not. Wow.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
And uh so that thank you for that. So the
songs we played, we played weeb O Barbada. I know,
it's a funny name. It's kind of a play off
the word off the word b bops Gary Mulligan's Jerry
Mulligan song.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Uh. Then we played Rockaby River.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
It's got a bluesy songs Duke Ellington, and then the
last one was Feetbone. That's when we played at the finals.
Uh the final round was feetbone. Uh the one that
did knocked them dead. Ye that feetbone?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Like that Jackson, I the tak a few more calls
in the lines lighted up like a Christmas tree in there.
Let's go here, water in the radio.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Yeah, go ahead, walk on, flock on real quick mind
you then gave us two days of extended mix. Good morning,
Doctor Lidell and the students.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I'll be quick.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
My song graduated, My song graduated from Central High School
in two thousand and four. I remember, like yesterday. That
was a great phenomenal school.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I will be quick.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
I missed the free concert. Congratulations on you guys. When
I'm like David, I want to know where and when
you guys are gonna perform for the public. And man,
it ain't nothing like a live band. I love a
live thing, especially Jays. I love Bronie James. I think
(29:28):
you got some young Bronie James in the studio. Young
guys which like that. Who's gonna mount to Bronie James?
Speaker 7 (29:35):
A man out.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Standing for a phenomenal job. If you can just tell
me where y'all won't be when y'all won't be nicked world,
so the public once again can come out and enjoy
the marvelous band. You got one more gain. Congratulations, Doctor
Lidell and the students of be Central High School got
the lockstand words.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, so we do have something lined up.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
It's not the dates are not Insterstone, but we're trying
to do something to levit shell. The caveat to that is,
you know, school's about to be out and these our kids,
uh seniors graduate today tonight actually, so give it up
for them.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, popping circumstances. Y'all playing by the way.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
At this time, but they are. But but we do
have something playing because these kids want to play together.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
But on the subject of that, these three gentlemen here
are also partner. These are these kids are not They
got their own group many they have to tell you about.
They got their own group that's separate from.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
The school Montgomery Tree. They called themselves Sole Ingredients, the Lego.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That's all right, Look, let me take another phone call.
All right, yeah you asked that one. Good back to
the phone line as we go. W d I, Hey,
good morning, Central High School Jazz Band in the studio.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Yes, good morning, stand, good morning, doctor Ledell, and good
morning Jackson, Matthew and Corbyn.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
I am so proud of you all.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I mean so proud of you all.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
And I'm extra proud to say that my granddaughter is
a junior there at Central High School.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Her name is mel Cox.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Right, we're good, We're good and.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Yeah, and she loves Central High School and she's been
getting a good education there. She's doing grill well, taking
a lot of ap classes. But anyway, you all are
a shining light on Memphis, Tennessee. You all are the
lights that we need at this time. And I was
(32:00):
watching you all perform. I was looking at YouTube and
I was looking at you all performed. As it said,
it was an mbd N A concert and jazz is
that the one in New York.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
We did that a month earlier. That was both I
went ensemble and jazz band performed there. That was the
Minority Band Directors National Association, which is UH. We had
to submit recordings for that as well, and then we
got accepted to perform and there was an invitational and
you had some of the best win ensembles and jazz
bands around the country there as well.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Well.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I can tell you all from looking at that video
and also looking at you all on the news to
Pips that they showed you all not only perform.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Well, but you all looked good boys.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
The way you all was your postor I was looking
at all of that, your postor your dress. I mean,
it's excellence, excellunce.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
We are so proud of you all, and I know.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
It's been hard work for you, mister doctor Ladelle.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
I know you're looking forward to a summer break.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
And it's well deserved so you can get up.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
For next year.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
And I tell you, I wish I had known. I'm
gonna have to get me a because she didn't tell
me the funds were being raised for you all to
go to New York, because I definitely will a contributed.
But I'm gonna stay on point, you know, for coming
up this year for you.
Speaker 9 (33:35):
All to go and whatever you all need.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I definitely got to support you, and I hope other
Mithians will support you all to ask off to your
young men, enjoy your summer, stay safe, stay good, make
right choices and thanks again, doctor Lodale.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
Thank you staying.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Have a good weekend to NBC back to the fall
lines we go WD. I a good morning on the radio. Yay,
good morning, fine, thank you comming.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
Man you on here, Yeah, yes, sir, good morning, Doctor Laddell,
into into your members morning. All right, Hey, look I was,
I was listening to you all, and I just kind
of smiled to myself because you know, over the years,
all the schools has always competed against one another in sports, football, basketball,
whatever it may have been. But me being a true
(34:23):
cougar to the bone, I can tell you all this
morning that I'm very proud of you all. I'm proud
of you warriors. You all went to New York, you
competed against bands from around the world, and you brought
it back home. The way I feel, doctor Laddell, I
feel like week and I think.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
The city of the city very proud of you all.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Congratulations to you all. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
All right, comment man, let me take one off. I
take this last break man number love come man, thank
you so much. I like I said, when I when
I hear them and I look at them and hear
all of this, man, I just just incredible, man, you guys,
incredible man. Change that h to. I then let them
in jacket. Let'm taking on the pall car here it
don't take a break, don't leave me out, eagle morning.
(35:05):
Thanks of waiting and holding all that good stuff. It's
your time now.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
How are you doing that the Ring Claire radio? Doctor Mandell?
How are you doing, sir?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
Man.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
You sounded great into the three musical megals. That's with you, man,
when you came back, you made the whole city trial.
I can't say enough. I know you guys are getting accolades.
What the things that y'all done? And David took one
of my questions away, so I won't ask what y'all
what y'all played to win? But I'm so proud. But
(35:37):
you know what, doctor Nadelle, I think about and I
like movies. Did you ever see that movie called Whiplash?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Of course, no, I'm not throwing music chairs across the room.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Okay, I just didn't ask that question. That was that
was a great move. I love watching that movie, man,
and I was wondering, do music instructors actually do that?
That would just part they be fined.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
They will be fired quickly if they did stuff in
that movie.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
But Uh, we are tough.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
You know.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
I am tough on the kids because I pushed him
because I know what they're capable of.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
When they're owning.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
These kids are own, I know what they're capable of,
and I have high standards because I expect how big
things from them because they have such height.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
But no, I'm not throwing music chairs at them. I'm
not slapping over the face.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
See Okay, my last ones to tell you, sir, I
want to ask just real quick. Well, Dowgi is one
of my favorite all time. You smooth that person. I
went to see Pieces of a Dream and they had
this prodigy thirteen fourteen year old god by the name
of Justin Lee's shows.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Ever heard of him, No, sir, but he needs to
come to Central thirteen or fourteen.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Come on if you if you get a chance, full
about this is Justin Lee's show. And he played the
keyboard for Pieces of a Dream. Now, when I first
saw the guy, I thought the guy was probably I did,
but kept put things together on the sea. I'll tell
you what I have never seen a part of you,
baby Prince or Stevie Wonder the guy was. He blew
(37:19):
everybody away, as always saying thank you for allowing me
to speak you guys, have a beautiful, blessed, safe and
healthy weekend and hoping we hear more from you.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Thank you all right, Thank you, Prince Charles. All right
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(37:46):
All right, just ay ready to wrap it up in
the winning moments of the show. Thank you wd I
listeners for just kind of being here and indulging me,
if you will in this special feature that we do
every Friday and today New Exception Man Central his cool,
I'm the Warriors, the high School, the jazz band, accolades.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Props, kudos to you.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I was talking to my good friend Alex Coleman over
in news Channel three broadcast journalist de Stortin there. I
think you, guys, that has headed his way a little
bit later on this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I believe so. Man. That's great.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Man, Man, take your tour, man, Man, get the roses Man.
Get the flowers.
Speaker 10 (38:21):
Man.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Uh, you guys are incredible. You won the whole thing. Literally,
you won the whole thing incredibly. The Central High Jazz
Band did it. Uh final words, let's get some get
some remarks from the band director, doctor Ally Little Well.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
First off, just thank you City of Memphis for supporting us.
Thank you for your kind words. Uh and congratulations to us.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
And uh, just we.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
We're still gonna we're gonna were gonna do this again
next year. So we're gonna need your support, your financial support.
We're gonna need support. Send send your children to Central
High School, tell you you go get a world class
music education. And uh, just thank you so much. We
are humbled and blessed and thankful for everything that's been
given to us.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
So thank you. Let's go around the.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Road court Bed Brinsel, Trump, extraorder that productionist, extraord to that,
your words, shout outs anything.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (39:19):
Like Doc said, I'm really thankful for the City of Memphis.
We couldn't have done it without him. I'm really thankful
for doctor hard work.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
He put in.
Speaker 11 (39:26):
The longe nights, the sweaty nights, the I don't know, man,
all of the stuff. We worked hard.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
And he paid off. No daty man. Yes, uh, come
on over here, Matt Matthew Montgomery email. Yeah, but you've
got to say, Doc, step up to that. Mike h
mter upright, bass player.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Now, I want to I want to thank everyone.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I can't believe we did it. I know it's kind
of man. You have sometimes had to step back and
think about it.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Man, we we.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Did He was like, Jackson pitched me.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Man, we want.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
So Man, your parents proud of you, officely right, man, Man,
and then everybody proud of you. Man, the dog proud
of you, Man, your dog, the cat proud of you.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Mann, the fish.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Looking at you through the in the quarrum like, man,
you did it, you did it, You did it, Montgomery.
But yeah, man, congratulations, go ahead, come on around. Jackson, Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (40:33):
I just want to say that I'm so deeply honored
to play for the city because this was really for Memphis,
right and the people of Memphis. So I want to
thank the community. I want to say it was an
honor to play for all of you. I want to
thank the band and all the other band members, especially
those seniors. Thank you so much. And I also want
to say if you are thinking about high school still.
(40:55):
If you're on the fence, this better push you over
right because we need some you know, trumpet players and
piano players.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
They know what I mean, right you boys all that?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Jackson the building man, Thank you anything, and you want
to say in Portuguese for.
Speaker 13 (41:12):
You go, I seen yourself familiating your Dealoa chim to
the moon translated.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I love you all.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Thank you so very much for support along this journey. Yep, right,
better fake you than make it man, Thank you, Thank
you guys. Man, keep on the good work man. This
wd I listener writes hats off to Central High School
Jazz Band, a couple of exclamation points behind it. Congratulations
on your weddings. If you want exclamation points, you represent
(41:47):
the highest honor in public education. That's coming from Dennis Jones. Man,
how about that?
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Thank you, Thank you, Dennis. He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
This is the Stan Belle Morning Show weekdates from sixty
ten am on the Hardest Owl of Memphis ten seventy
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