April 11, 2023 • 42 mins
In the second half of our first two-parter, we delve deeper into Norah and Robert’s shared roots. You’ll hear an unprecedented version of a Norah classic, one of Robert's songs off of his album Black Radio 2, and a very unexpected duet on one of the "greatest songs of all time”! Listen in to find out who Robert dreams of touring with - it might surprise you! Recorded 2/7/23.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, I'm Norah Jones and today I'm playing along with
Robert Glasper. This is part two. Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm just playing lo we sy, I'm just playing in lonezy.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm Norah Jones. Welcome to the show. With me as
with me as always? Oh sorry, that's my line? Okay
with me as always?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Is you?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Sarah? Oda me? How have begun? How long you been
waiting to do that?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Joe?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Just I just came up with it. I basically like
Conan O'Brien. I just came up with things off the
top of my head. I'm so funny on the spot.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We loved the ConA and O'Brien. Being on Conan and
O'Brien was my dream.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
If you haven't checked it out yet, check out Nora's
Conan episode.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yes O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast, which you probably already
know because you're cool. I know you're cool. We're buds.
Do you like me? Do you like me? Thanks for
joining us though. Today we're doing part two of our
Robert Glasper episode.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Yes, it's a continuation of Nora's conversation with Robert, and
you get to hear more about his beginnings in Texas
and Also, in this episode, you revisit one of your
classic songs.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh yeah, he requested to do one of my songs,
which was so sweet, and that's very special. Also I
get to just sang and he plays the piano on
that song.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
This is actually the first pianist.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
This is our first pianist guest pianist.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
This is our first pianist pianist.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I don't know how to say that word, but piano, piano, plianoist. Honestly,
pretty I'm pretty sure. I only say piano player because
I pianist. Pianist sounds so formal and reminiscent of pianist piano.
He played the piano. This is the first piano player
(02:00):
that we've had on which is both super special for
me and sometimes tricky for me to know what to do,
but also freaking awesome.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Yeah, you don't know what to do with your hands,
but nobody's watching.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But I did play worly on most of these these songs,
but not on one or two of them, and it's
pretty awesome. He's an incredible piano player. And if you
haven't checked out part one, I suggest checking it out first.
But you know, you do what you want and there's
no wrong way to eat me. You say, no, I'm sorry,
(02:36):
there's no wrong way to do this. But I do
think you should listen to episode one if you.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Want you missed it, check it out. You'll hear some
unexpected duets.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And you'll you'll you'll get to hear his intro. But
in case you don't, we're going to intro him again.
And you know he's put out so many great albums.
He's collaborated with a Brazilian people. Yes, some of them Brazilian, No, probably, yeah,
like a Brazilion. He's collaborated with everyone from eric A
Badu to her to Questlove, to Q Tip to Roy
(03:05):
Hargrove to me too, is that weird? To save Me?
It's true, Michelle and degio Cello. He's he's just he's
one of those people who has played with everyone and
is special in everything he does.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
He's very flexible and he's a chameleon. But he's got
his real unique style that is the thread of all
these different projects that he works on.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yes, and he's my fellow Texan, my buddy from jazz Camp.
I hope you really enjoy the rest of this two parter.
It was a fatty. So we chopped it up and uh.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Oh we got to get his band camp picture.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, it wasn't that kind of a band camp.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I mean his band, marching band.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh yeah, we talk about marching band. Yes, I'll ask
him he has one. Enjoy this episode, part two of
Robert Last Heard Pardieu. I went to ninth grade at
a regular high school. Yeah, so you went later.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I went tenth grade audition, ninth grade. I made it,
But in my mind I was going to be a
basketball player. I still wasn't convinced with the piano yet.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, because you're tall.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Because I'm tall, and I thought I was gonna be
a basketball player because in junior high I was one
of the good guys. Yeah mind Joe went to all
white junior high pretty much, and so in basketball. Yeah,
when the schools integrated and you have to go through
the thing, and now you're at a high school where
it's all these.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Other schools, you weren't good anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh. I wrote the bench the whole year.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh no, was that really depressing?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Oh it just made me slide the bench over to
the piano. I just the same bench like that, it's
the same. I'm glad that I realized I sucked early.
I think that's important, Oh God, knowing what you're really
good at and what you suck at early, and being
a realist, because what happens is, I tell people all
the time, you confuse your hobby with your gift. You
(05:00):
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I mean I get what you're saying, and I agree
to a certain point, but I feel confused. I guess
with the kids, you know, sometimes they want to give
up on something, and I don't want them to give
up yet not kids. Oh you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
My mom didn't let me give up more piano. I talk,
I won't pay basketball. She said, fine, but.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
You have to tell you take piano with Yeah, my
mom too.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Because my mom saw the gift. I didn't see it. Okay,
I'm talking about you're grown. Oh you know when later
in high school is that's when you kind of know
where you're going, what you gotta vibe with. That's true,
you know what I mean? The kids know, they don't
know yet. So if you see a passionate about something
they're not good at, let them do it because they
might get good at it. Yeah, and but once you
get you know, you're seventeen year eighteen.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Now you're grown.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
You're grown now, and you know that you over here.
You do this so well with the least effort. Yeah,
that's the gift.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's the gift.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
That's the gift. Whatever you do really well with the
least effort, that's most likely of a gift. And you
can do things you like to do things. I love
playing basketball. I still love playing basketball, but that's that's
a passion of mine. I love to watch it. Now
I don't play much.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's your passion, but you're not going to be started again.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Sometimes your passion is not your gift. My passion is music,
obviously the first passion. Luckily, my passion is my gift
and they work together, and that work.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's how I feel. I feel like music is my hobby.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Oh really, what's your passion?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well no, it's my passion too.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
So music is your hobby and your passion is your gift.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
All of them.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Got you? Do you have any hobbies.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I like to ski and take hikes, and I like
to do pottery. Really really, I make these really fucked
up looking.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Masks that you hang on on the wall.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah they're really weird.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh cool? Yeah, But like, you know, I'm glad that
my mom was a realistic She was like, she let
me actually go to high school for basketball. I didn't
want I didn't want to go to performing house high
school yet, so I was going to play. She let
me sit the bench the whole year and let me
realize myself. Oh but I was still taking care of
lessons at at the same time. So then I get
to switch the tenth grade year and then you were.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You were in. That was Yeah, she sounds like she
was special.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
It was yeah, very special. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It's nice to have someone looking at for you.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
My mom made me audition for arts Magnet. Nice because
I wanted to go to interlock In. Do you know
about that place? Yeah, you've probably done a gig there
in Michigan. It's a big arts camp. I went to
summer camp there. I got this scholarship to go to
summer camp up there, and they have a boarding school
and I wanted to go to the boarding school so bad.
After I went to the camp and she was like,
(07:30):
there's no way I'm sending you to boarding school. No
way now. But look, Dallas has a We lived in Grapevine,
so Dallas has this arts school. Why don't you audition
for it?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So I auditioned and boom, yeah the way I got
into I didn't even know about the art school. My
mom used to let me drop her off at her
job and take the car. Oh cool, I mean I'll
have to drive home. Couldn't be out. Yeah yeah, I
used to drop her off, get to drive, you know,
drop her off. And it was her her standards night.
(08:02):
She was singing play piano at this bar. Standards, you know,
the saying. And the deal was she let me take
the car home and then come back and pick her
up at like one am or something, and I had
to come in and play a song with her. That's
last night. For the last song of the night. I
would go play a song with her and we would
do some jazz standard special body of Soul or predido
(08:26):
or there's be another U. We had a few.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That was like yeah before every ninety four, yeah, you
know total.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
So the bartender one night was like, your son's really good.
My friend is the professor at the high school for
the performing urts. He should go audition, you know, you
should have an audition.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That is so cool.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
She's like, oh, Rob, you want The ad was like, no,
I want to go to Elkins High School basketball. She's like, no,
you're going to audition. So auditioned and I got in.
But again I was like, I want to play basketball.
I want to basket. And I was playing clarinet. Oh
in the marching band.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay, yeah, saxophone marching band.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You know you have a picture of yourself and that output.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Outfit right somewhere somewhere, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Hanging on the walls at the high school for sure.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Absolutely, yeah. And you know I was doing that, and
you know there was a girl involved because I went
you know, because when you do marching band, you start
the summer before you go to school. You start marching
band before you even go to school, early before you
get to so did I started dating this girl? So
I was like, no, ma, I want to go to Elkins.
She was like, okay, fine, go to Elkins do that.
(09:36):
And then I realized where I need to be. You know, yeah,
I didn't even know any jazz piano players when they
asked me for the audition. It's like, who are your
favorite jazz piano players?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Really, you weren't listening to this.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
All I knew was two people. This is eighth grade. Yeah,
I knew chick Area, I knew as Computerson.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Okay, that's more than I knew in eighth grade. Yeah.
Actually I just knew Billie Holiday in eighth grade in Savon.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah. I mean those that's all you need, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I didn't know the piano Plarygy yeah. I mean yeah,
I didn't know I knew them yet.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, Wow, that's cool. Did you say you wanted to
do Sunrise?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Really, yes, that's so funny.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I love Sunrise. Sunrise was like my wake up song
for so long. It's such a nice wake up joint.
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It has a good vibe. Yeah, definitely has a good vibe.
It definitely has morning vibes.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Absolutely, yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I was wondering, like, because you knew me because I
was on Blue Note, and then what year were you
on Blue Note?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I got signed to Blue Note two thousand and five. Okay, yeah, okay,
I was the first signing of an instrumentalist since you Yeah.
Really yeah. They couldn't afford anybody until you came out
with I don't know why, yeah, and then they could
afford to sign the Shamists. Again. That's why I said
I made a joke to Eli. Shout out to Eli,
shout out, Yeah, I made a joke. I was like,
(10:59):
let's name my album.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's so funny. I think I read that you said
that somewhere.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, I feel like I remember like feeling really self
conscious about my jazz level at that point, because like
it's where it came from. But I didn't think that
record was a jazz record. But then a lot of
people kept saying it was, but it wasn't really. But
like I felt like maybe jazz musicians were mad at
me or something, you know what I mean, Thank you
(11:27):
they do, you know what I mean? I felt like
this weird, like, uh, I'm not, actually I am. I
do feel like.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
A jazz musician. This is my take on it. When
you're a jazz musician, it just gives you the tools
to do whatever you want, you know what I mean.
Like to play jazz in a mediocre way, you have
to be better than other musicians in any genre other
than classical. Classical and jazz are the only genres where
you pretty much have to master your instrument just to
play it in a mediocre way. Yeah, you know what
(11:55):
I mean. It's hard, so you have to really master it,
and you have to learn it. You have to really
really know it, you know what I mean. So it
just gives you the tools. Now you have the tools
to do whatever you know. And that's what That's how
I look at it. And even the a lot of
jazz is we love, they don't stop at just playing jazz.
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
No, I know that all of that I know now,
But I think at twenty three I felt I felt
a little of course, like if I saw Jason Moran,
I was like, oh my gosh, does he think I'm
a loser? You know, he's such.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
A serious but he's not. That's the thing about Jason too.
I love Jason which high school too. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I was gonna say he's older, right.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, he's older. He went to school with Chris Dave,
That's right. Yeah, but he has a he's way more
broad and open minded and for other things than people
might think. You know what I'm saying. But he's huge
supportive of mine from the very beginning and all the
things I was doing extra things outside of jazz. He
was like, man, do that shit?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, he gave me advice once too. I did one
of those BLUETOMT fifty anniversary at the Kennedy Center. He
asked me to sing with him and Wayne Shorter. Yeah,
you were there. He asked me to sing with him
with Wayne Shorter, Brian Blade, and John Pattatucci. And I
was so like honored, I'm scared kind of to sing
with him. And then Jason emailed me later He's like,
(13:10):
you should make a record with Wayne, and I was
like really, And that's why I asked him to play
on that. On that record, I mean he played on
like three or four songs, but absolutely, I know.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It was just like a producers.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
It was like the encouragement that I needed to feel
worthy to even ask. It was really sweet.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, he's that guy.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He's like, give me a little advice for sure. So
it's sweet to me that you want to play Sunrise
because I think of it as a country song, but
I love country. Yeah, of course you're from Texas. Baby.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
My dream is to go onto a Bondie rate one day.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh my god, have you ever played with her? She's great.
I played with him went really Yeah. I got to
sing with her really once. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Even if I get to just play, I can't make
it can't make you love me. Even if I just
even if we just do that, I'm good, just do it.
I'm good. I'm so good, you know what I mean.
You know, I sat with Bruce Hornsby one day.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I forgot that was his.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah, oh man, he we sat the piano one day.
I'm a huge Bruce Hornsby fan. Yeah, and we sat
at the piano one that he showed me like how
he played it and hooked it up, you know, like, yeah, yeah,
he's great.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I just learned recently that that's him, really, because you know,
growing up, I never knew what was what. I just
didn't pay attention. I didn't have the album. I knew
that song by heart from the radio.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You know, it's one of the greatest songs.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It's such a great song.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Written by football player. Really, you know, Donald was produced it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I don't know any of this.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Wait, you don't know Don produced it. I didn't know
that Don. Yeah, So shout out to Down was by
the man. When you get a minute, have Don tell
you the whole story of how he ended up producing
Look at the Draw. That's the album Bonnie right, Look
at the Draw. That's his first album that he ever produced.
That's the way it came up. Was just so random.
It was super random and you just have to ask
(15:04):
him about it. It's a long story, but it's amazing.
But he produced that song and Bruce Hornsby playing piano
on it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
He's a football player who wrote it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I don't know the guy. I don't know the guy's name,
but he was the butler was watching TV. He was
watching something like Cops, one of the shows, and the
guy had handcuffs and then I think and he I
have an argument with his wife. And when he was
before they put him in the car, he was like,
I can't make it love you don't. So the guy
wrote a song, but Don was said the song was fast.
(15:32):
He was like, I can't make you love me if
you don't blow up. So Don was like, bro, let's
let's let's let's slow it down, and he it was
his idea to like slow it down and make it
a thing. They brought Bruce hornsby and hook up some more,
you know, some nice changes, and then yeah, then they
recorded it money rate and it was it was Don's
I did for the drummer. I met the drummer. They
can't he can't show one of my shows with Don.
(15:54):
Don was like a drummer and I can't make you
love me?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
It was Don's idea to make it. Do you have
him used brushes?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It's just the saddest sentiment and so beautifully said.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Amazing that that song and Time at the time. You
know I played that with Cindy Love did you? I
manifested that the time was my favorite songs of all time.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I think it's our generation's favorite song of all time.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Like it has to be. It has to be like
top five. It's in there. It's top ten for sure,
but top five, like undisputable. I played at my show
sometimes just to get the audience to do sing alongs
for fun.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Oh I saw that?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, no, not that song.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Time like that you did all that.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
So I would bring Time by Time in and one day,
like four years ago or something, her people called my
people and then it was like, hey, Cindy would love
for Robert to come play at her fundraise or she
doesn't be Oh yeah, I did one of those at
the Beacon Theater. Yes, they wanted to play Time at
the time.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I was like, because she knows that she's cool, because
she checks stuff out.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Oh my God. We rehearsed one time at sir went
and played it literally one time. Everybody was crying. I
was crying, she was crying, her team was crying. Her
team said, Robert, we've been watching her do this song
for forty years, she said, never. They say it's never
been like that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
But isn't it beautiful when you can change the emotion
of something and it comes out like it's.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Just the two of you?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I didn't. First of all, I didn't know it was
gonna be duo. I'm thinking I'm playing with the band.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, just duo.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And she played still guitar what me and her I.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Didn't know she could play still guitar.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Still guitar amazing and piano, and we did it one
time of rehearsal. She was like, that's it. We're not
doing anymore into the show.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, I say it.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
We did that to show. That's one of the most
nervous I've never been. I don't get nervous. That was
I was shaking.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You were nervous.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I was nervous.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It was also really naked.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Absolutely super naked. So it's like you hear everything, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That was like, yeah, that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That was Yeah, one of the greatest moments.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Sunrise. It's a lot down. I'm not gonna play. I
want you to play. Is that cool?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The core is enough?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You know?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I think I did. We'll see where it takes us.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I never get accompanied by another pianist.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
You always come to yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I think, I like have a thing with it,
and I really like it. But this is a treat
because it's you.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's fun for me.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I love it. I think a little setup here, that's right,
that's like.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
A little of that on an empty stomach. Whatever you want,
it don't matter.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Again, let me say, then it goes to the.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay, and then just look at me and got it.
That's pretty m.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
H m hmm.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Sunrise, Sunrise looks like.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Morning in your rides.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Where the clock's hail nine fifteen.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Four hours sunrise.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Sunrise couldn't tell to sif it try, because the afternoons
already coming along.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And I said, who.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Said to you? Surprise Surprise couldn't find it in your ads,
(19:58):
but I'm sure it's written all old over my face.
Surprise Surprise never served that I could hide when I see.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You We've made it through another day, and I say.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
To you.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
On night the night, throw its cover down A long.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Me again from Ride is the only.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Way to break me back.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Hoo hoo.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Oh do you.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's just a beautiful song. It's such a beautiful song.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It just makes it.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
It makes your days start just good. You just start
off with day good like that. That reminds me of
like when sunrise. I literally put that on in the morning.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Oh man, it's so beautiful, do you.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I know?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's so great to hear you play it. Man, that
had all that stuff in it. Yeah, all the things
we've been talking about for the last hour. It's funny,
you know. On tour I have Brian Blade is an
incredible singer.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I'm sure no I've heard him saying, yeah, he's a
great singer.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So I've slowly over the years gotten less shy and
like please sing harmonies and he's he's a little shy, yeah,
And I'm like, come on, you got I've tried to
ce tip him a little. Yeah, He's like, yeah, you
got it, but he totally has it. And my favorite
thing is when he sings harmonies on He'll sing on
the ooze and then he'll sing. We do like a
gospel song. He sings and he does like some country
(23:24):
harmonies for me.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Let's try it together.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's pretty. You're sweet. This is the most fun, of course,
(23:55):
thank you for doing this.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
So fun.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Absolutely, let's do your song.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Let it ride. Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I want to do it. Okay. First of all, when
you guys asked me to sing on this run into
the studio.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I wasn't even there.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You weren't even there.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I was on tour. I know exactly. He's like, I
think I can get no where to do it. I'm
going to ask her because she lives right the corner
from the studio.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, yeah, I love that place. Shout out recording Brooklyn Recording.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It's my guy right there. I love that studio too.
It's just so it makes it's so inspiring, it makes
you want to create because he has everything there.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
It's so easy. Yeah. Like we pulled out of Marimbo
once to when we were recording.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
And if he doesn't have it, he has like OCD
with stuff. If he doesn't have it, he gets it. Yeah.
I mean I tricked him. I tricked him. My purposely
was like I was doing something for a score or something.
I was like, hey, do you have a timpany.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
He was like, no, that's why he got the tempany,
that's why you created that. We used it. You used it,
you said on my third album. I'm pretty sure, Oh you.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Don't have it. Well, I'll do that this other studio.
And he got it like literally, like the next day
or the day after. It was like he needs to
get Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I feel like if I ever needed something cool, I
tell Andy that I need it and he finds it
on for me.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, finds it. He has to have it.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, I sang on this song and you said, who
wrote the lyric?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I met her at the Blue Note.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yeah. Muncina Mooncinamncina a great, great vocalist, great songwriter. She
does a lot of stuff with common okay, but yeah,
and she has her own stuff on you know, but
she's she's great and yeah, she wrote. I called her.
I was like, hey, I want to do this song.
Could you please write the lyrics? She was sick and
I was like, just write the lyrics for me, Just
write it and she was like okay, and she did
a little demo for it.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
She sings.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Yeah, she sings. She sings plays and the ranges.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That's so cool.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
And yeah, she wrote this and gave it back to me,
like literally the same day. She's really fast, too, super fast.
And then you met her at the Blue Note.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I met at the BLUEO and I was so excited.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yeah, exactly, shot, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I love this song absolutely, And when I sang it,
you weren't there, but Eli was there. And Eli's like
my brother because he's been he was a Blue notte
when I.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Got signed me too, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I mean, I don't know about you, but I felt
very lucky to fall into a record label that became
my family.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Absolutely j R.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Gems, absolutely so many others. Yeah, early on, whenever my
first album came out, it was so big, but I
had like this protective bubble even though they were pushing
me to people they weren't. They were like protecting me.
And Bruce, oh my god, Bruce Lonvall.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely yeah, and Eli like like blastsberg.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah. So I was kind of sick when I recorded it,
and I think I was a little bit of a
pain in the butt, Like I was like, I can't
I can't sing today, but it sounds.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Really good sometimes sometimes a little sickness adds a little
something color, a little something exactly. I love it. I
loved it, So let's do it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And Chris, Chris, Daddy Dave on this.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
No, that's that's on that album. That's Mark Cullenberg.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, Mark Collenberg is on the Black Radio too, so
he's doing them on the whole album. People so many
people think that's a really something, but no, it's Mark,
like playing it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I actually thought it was Chris because it sounds like
and he's so good at like.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Exactly, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Mark Holmberg. Mark, that's so cool. It's so good. Absolutely,
I kind of want to play that bar.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
That's dope. Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
By the way, what are the chords? I just want
to know. Yeah, I know I can figure it out.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, No, for sure. It's C minor A minor raise five, yeah,
B flat minor. Yeah, then F minor nine, then D
(28:26):
minor D minor nine, yep, D D then D flat major,
F minor F sharp major.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I'm never gonna remember that. I'm so glad I haven't
recorded so.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I can learn it.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'll do a little thing and then I go into
the actual chords cool.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'll let it ride.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
H m hm h m hmmm mm hmmm mm hm
(29:34):
hm hm.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I've never been a gambler. I stay on the safe side.
You know, someone know I'm all right. But all of
that's what gotten.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
When I'm looking at your eyes, I'm happily out on
olim pull me up.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
From he inside.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Love.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Show me what it feels like. I guarantee anything. So
my love is on the line.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
But a letter ride, a letter ride, A letter ride,
a letter ride.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
It's easier than never know to walk away with noise side,
I know.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Show me what it feels like. Happily do anything.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
If I know I'm by your side. Happily do anything.
If I know I'm by your side. You know, show
me what it feels like. I guarantee anything. So all
(31:36):
love is on the line.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But letty ride. I let it ride. So Letty ride.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Hira last.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Josh, who.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I let it up? I let him ride.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I laid it ride.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I laid it ride. I let it ride.
Speaker 10 (34:20):
Mm hmm, ok, nice, slow fa.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
When do you tell the mc fair When do.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
You tell the mc fair man, that'd be crazy.
Speaker 10 (34:54):
I don't know, you do know?
Speaker 4 (34:55):
That I don't where it takes me.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Great, It's it's a real like complex thing. It's like
very straight over like something that's very straight but also
nothing straight.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Yeah, absolutely, I love that.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Did you ever do Marri McParland show?
Speaker 10 (35:11):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I did. I did I need to ask you about it?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Yes, I did her show. Man. It must have been
maybe a few years before she passed. Yeah, like maybe
two or three years before she passed.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
I looked forward to that so much because I listened
to her show all the time.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, in high school. Absolutely, you had the tapes going
around man.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yeah. My teacher in high school, Kent ellingson another shout out,
Briker t No, he had acquired a bunch of tapes
of her show from someone who acquired them from someone
in a nursing home who died or something like. It
was a very random and I remember listening in high
school to the Bill Evans one.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah, she's been out here for a minute.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Are you doing the Blue Note again in October? Okay?
Cool plugging, I mean you don't need plugging.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Of course, every October is called Obtoberfest. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
The Blue Note and Jazz.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Club in New York. I do the whole month of
October and like the first week or two of November,
so it ends up being like, you know, six seven
seven weeks, five six seven weeks something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
That's when I started with you, right before the pandemic.
I think.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yeah, But then if we do it and it's a
real gig, you know what I mean, for a few days,
something we can do that, we can do all these things. Yeah,
I'd be amazed. H Maybe we can get Brian and
can do it with this. Yes, and that'll be my
first time.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
We'll make it happen. You're gonna play with Blade and
Bonnie Raid maybe together.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Maybe together.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Let's go, let's book a sash.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, family for life. I'm so happy to do this
with you.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Love you much. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, we did it.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
We did do it.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
We did it.
Speaker 11 (36:53):
Oh my god, Bonnie Ray, Yeah, turned on the babe,
turn down these voices inside my.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Laid down with me.
Speaker 7 (37:14):
Tell me no, lie, just hold me Cale, don't pay no,
don't patron.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Because I can make you love me. If you don't,
you can make your heart feet something. It wll hear
in the doe these fine loud.
Speaker 10 (38:01):
I will lay it down. I feel the power, but
you don't.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
No, you.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Because I can make close if you don't.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
H Yeah, I don't even know what was playing. I
don't even know that.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I who to thunk I can't make you love me would.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Be in this episode.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I didn't think.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I didn't know that was going to happen, and I
missed the first line. But if it was so beautiful.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
I love that he knew the story behind it. Yeah,
how it was written that. It's totally hilarious. God, and
I want to make him and Bonnie meat now.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Oh yeah, I have to shed do that. Yeah, a
little pair and Brian. Yeah, that was so fun.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
It was so fun to hear him play piano on
Sunrise because I felt like his playing adds like a
new feeling to it.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Oh, it was totally different and so beautiful. He's so good.
It's interesting. We went to see him at the Blue
Note probably four years ago, and it was such an
incredible show and he's such an incredible musician. But I
feel like a lot of the show he's spent featuring
other people, and there was only a few minutes where
he really let loose and I was like, whoa, Yeah,
(39:48):
it's like he can do so many different types of shows.
Sometimes his shows are like that where he's featuring all
these people in the groove and the songs and he's
playing incredibly But and then when he does like a
trio show, when he really gets to playing, he's an
insane musician.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
Like his group name Robert glasper Experiment. It's very experimental,
like it's kind of like anything goes and it's very
you never know what you're gonna get, so it's for
the audience. It's so engaging, and he also includes the
audience and so much.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Of it it does, which is really fun. His shows
are so fun. You have to go see him if
you haven't, and it was it was so nice to
you just hear him play piano too, you know, like
an acoustic piano back to the old days of jazz camp.
In case you miss the names of any of the
songs in this episode, the first song we played was Sunrise,
one of my songs, and that was really fun. And
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then the second song was let It Ride, which is
a song I sang on for one of Robert's albums,
Black Radio Tube, and so in case you're looking for that,
and then the third song was of course, I Can't
Make You Lucky, funny rat classic.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Yes, thanks so much for listening to our Robert glassper
episodes are two parter, our first first two parter.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
But it was just there was so much good stuff.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
We didn't want to cut anything.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, and we didn't want it to be too long
a longie. Thanks to Robert, and thanks to you for
listening and you just said that, And.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
Thanks again to everyone who sent us emails and messages
to let us know who your dream guests are. Yes,
we hear you, We hear you, and our wheels are spinning.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Spinning, We're working on it, working on it. We're on it.
Thank you, Thank you, love you Bye. This episode was
recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, California, by Clint Whelander,
assisted by Zach Zaidel, edited by Sarah Oda, mixed by
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Jamie Landry. Additional engineering by Pete Hanlon and Matthew Vasquez.
Artwork by Eliza Fry, Photography by Shervin Linez. Produced by
me and Myota. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to like
and subscribe. Yo h
Hey, I'm Norah Jones and today I'm playing along with
Robert Glasper. This is part two. Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm just playing lo we sy, I'm just playing in lonezy.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm Norah Jones. Welcome to the show. With me as
with me as always? Oh sorry, that's my line? Okay
with me as always?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Is you?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Sarah? Oda me? How have begun? How long you been
waiting to do that?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Joe?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Just I just came up with it. I basically like
Conan O'Brien. I just came up with things off the
top of my head. I'm so funny on the spot.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We loved the ConA and O'Brien. Being on Conan and
O'Brien was my dream.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
If you haven't checked it out yet, check out Nora's
Conan episode.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yes O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast, which you probably already
know because you're cool. I know you're cool. We're buds.
Do you like me? Do you like me? Thanks for
joining us though. Today we're doing part two of our
Robert Glasper episode.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Yes, it's a continuation of Nora's conversation with Robert, and
you get to hear more about his beginnings in Texas
and Also, in this episode, you revisit one of your
classic songs.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh yeah, he requested to do one of my songs,
which was so sweet, and that's very special. Also I
get to just sang and he plays the piano on
that song.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
This is actually the first pianist.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
This is our first pianist guest pianist.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
This is our first pianist pianist.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I don't know how to say that word, but piano, piano, plianoist. Honestly,
pretty I'm pretty sure. I only say piano player because
I pianist. Pianist sounds so formal and reminiscent of pianist piano.
He played the piano. This is the first piano player
(02:00):
that we've had on which is both super special for
me and sometimes tricky for me to know what to do,
but also freaking awesome.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Yeah, you don't know what to do with your hands,
but nobody's watching.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But I did play worly on most of these these songs,
but not on one or two of them, and it's
pretty awesome. He's an incredible piano player. And if you
haven't checked out part one, I suggest checking it out first.
But you know, you do what you want and there's
no wrong way to eat me. You say, no, I'm sorry,
(02:36):
there's no wrong way to do this. But I do
think you should listen to episode one if you.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Want you missed it, check it out. You'll hear some
unexpected duets.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And you'll you'll you'll get to hear his intro. But
in case you don't, we're going to intro him again.
And you know he's put out so many great albums.
He's collaborated with a Brazilian people. Yes, some of them Brazilian, No, probably, yeah,
like a Brazilion. He's collaborated with everyone from eric A
Badu to her to Questlove, to Q Tip to Roy
(03:05):
Hargrove to me too, is that weird? To save Me?
It's true, Michelle and degio Cello. He's he's just he's
one of those people who has played with everyone and
is special in everything he does.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
He's very flexible and he's a chameleon. But he's got
his real unique style that is the thread of all
these different projects that he works on.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yes, and he's my fellow Texan, my buddy from jazz Camp.
I hope you really enjoy the rest of this two parter.
It was a fatty. So we chopped it up and uh.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Oh we got to get his band camp picture.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, it wasn't that kind of a band camp.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I mean his band, marching band.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh yeah, we talk about marching band. Yes, I'll ask
him he has one. Enjoy this episode, part two of
Robert Last Heard Pardieu. I went to ninth grade at
a regular high school. Yeah, so you went later.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I went tenth grade audition, ninth grade. I made it,
But in my mind I was going to be a
basketball player. I still wasn't convinced with the piano yet.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, because you're tall.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Because I'm tall, and I thought I was gonna be
a basketball player because in junior high I was one
of the good guys. Yeah mind Joe went to all
white junior high pretty much, and so in basketball. Yeah,
when the schools integrated and you have to go through
the thing, and now you're at a high school where
it's all these.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Other schools, you weren't good anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh. I wrote the bench the whole year.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh no, was that really depressing?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Oh it just made me slide the bench over to
the piano. I just the same bench like that, it's
the same. I'm glad that I realized I sucked early.
I think that's important, Oh God, knowing what you're really
good at and what you suck at early, and being
a realist, because what happens is, I tell people all
the time, you confuse your hobby with your gift. You
(05:00):
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I mean I get what you're saying, and I agree
to a certain point, but I feel confused. I guess
with the kids, you know, sometimes they want to give
up on something, and I don't want them to give
up yet not kids. Oh you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
My mom didn't let me give up more piano. I talk,
I won't pay basketball. She said, fine, but.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
You have to tell you take piano with Yeah, my
mom too.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Because my mom saw the gift. I didn't see it. Okay,
I'm talking about you're grown. Oh you know when later
in high school is that's when you kind of know
where you're going, what you gotta vibe with. That's true,
you know what I mean? The kids know, they don't
know yet. So if you see a passionate about something
they're not good at, let them do it because they
might get good at it. Yeah, and but once you
get you know, you're seventeen year eighteen.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Now you're grown.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
You're grown now, and you know that you over here.
You do this so well with the least effort. Yeah,
that's the gift.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's the gift.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
That's the gift. Whatever you do really well with the
least effort, that's most likely of a gift. And you
can do things you like to do things. I love
playing basketball. I still love playing basketball, but that's that's
a passion of mine. I love to watch it. Now
I don't play much.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's your passion, but you're not going to be started again.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Sometimes your passion is not your gift. My passion is music,
obviously the first passion. Luckily, my passion is my gift
and they work together, and that work.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's how I feel. I feel like music is my hobby.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Oh really, what's your passion?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well no, it's my passion too.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
So music is your hobby and your passion is your gift.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
All of them.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Got you? Do you have any hobbies.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I like to ski and take hikes, and I like
to do pottery. Really really, I make these really fucked
up looking.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Masks that you hang on on the wall.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah they're really weird.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh cool? Yeah, But like, you know, I'm glad that
my mom was a realistic She was like, she let
me actually go to high school for basketball. I didn't
want I didn't want to go to performing house high
school yet, so I was going to play. She let
me sit the bench the whole year and let me
realize myself. Oh but I was still taking care of
lessons at at the same time. So then I get
to switch the tenth grade year and then you were.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You were in. That was Yeah, she sounds like she
was special.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
It was yeah, very special. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It's nice to have someone looking at for you.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
My mom made me audition for arts Magnet. Nice because
I wanted to go to interlock In. Do you know
about that place? Yeah, you've probably done a gig there
in Michigan. It's a big arts camp. I went to
summer camp there. I got this scholarship to go to
summer camp up there, and they have a boarding school
and I wanted to go to the boarding school so bad.
After I went to the camp and she was like,
(07:30):
there's no way I'm sending you to boarding school. No
way now. But look, Dallas has a We lived in Grapevine,
so Dallas has this arts school. Why don't you audition
for it?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So I auditioned and boom, yeah the way I got
into I didn't even know about the art school. My
mom used to let me drop her off at her
job and take the car. Oh cool, I mean I'll
have to drive home. Couldn't be out. Yeah yeah, I
used to drop her off, get to drive, you know,
drop her off. And it was her her standards night.
(08:02):
She was singing play piano at this bar. Standards, you know,
the saying. And the deal was she let me take
the car home and then come back and pick her
up at like one am or something, and I had
to come in and play a song with her. That's
last night. For the last song of the night. I
would go play a song with her and we would
do some jazz standard special body of Soul or predido
(08:26):
or there's be another U. We had a few.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That was like yeah before every ninety four, yeah, you
know total.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
So the bartender one night was like, your son's really good.
My friend is the professor at the high school for
the performing urts. He should go audition, you know, you
should have an audition.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That is so cool.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
She's like, oh, Rob, you want The ad was like, no,
I want to go to Elkins High School basketball. She's like, no,
you're going to audition. So auditioned and I got in.
But again I was like, I want to play basketball.
I want to basket. And I was playing clarinet. Oh
in the marching band.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay, yeah, saxophone marching band.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You know you have a picture of yourself and that output.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Outfit right somewhere somewhere, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Hanging on the walls at the high school for sure.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Absolutely, yeah. And you know I was doing that, and
you know there was a girl involved because I went
you know, because when you do marching band, you start
the summer before you go to school. You start marching
band before you even go to school, early before you
get to so did I started dating this girl? So
I was like, no, ma, I want to go to Elkins.
She was like, okay, fine, go to Elkins do that.
(09:36):
And then I realized where I need to be. You know, yeah,
I didn't even know any jazz piano players when they
asked me for the audition. It's like, who are your
favorite jazz piano players?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Really, you weren't listening to this.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
All I knew was two people. This is eighth grade. Yeah,
I knew chick Area, I knew as Computerson.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Okay, that's more than I knew in eighth grade. Yeah.
Actually I just knew Billie Holiday in eighth grade in Savon.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah. I mean those that's all you need, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I didn't know the piano Plarygy yeah. I mean yeah,
I didn't know I knew them yet.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, Wow, that's cool. Did you say you wanted to
do Sunrise?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Really, yes, that's so funny.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I love Sunrise. Sunrise was like my wake up song
for so long. It's such a nice wake up joint.
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It has a good vibe. Yeah, definitely has a good vibe.
It definitely has morning vibes.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Absolutely, yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I was wondering, like, because you knew me because I
was on Blue Note, and then what year were you
on Blue Note?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I got signed to Blue Note two thousand and five. Okay, yeah, okay,
I was the first signing of an instrumentalist since you Yeah.
Really yeah. They couldn't afford anybody until you came out
with I don't know why, yeah, and then they could
afford to sign the Shamists. Again. That's why I said
I made a joke to Eli. Shout out to Eli,
shout out, Yeah, I made a joke. I was like,
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let's name my album.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's so funny. I think I read that you said
that somewhere.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, I feel like I remember like feeling really self
conscious about my jazz level at that point, because like
it's where it came from. But I didn't think that
record was a jazz record. But then a lot of
people kept saying it was, but it wasn't really. But
like I felt like maybe jazz musicians were mad at
me or something, you know what I mean, Thank you
(11:27):
they do, you know what I mean? I felt like
this weird, like, uh, I'm not, actually I am. I
do feel like.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
A jazz musician. This is my take on it. When
you're a jazz musician, it just gives you the tools
to do whatever you want, you know what I mean.
Like to play jazz in a mediocre way, you have
to be better than other musicians in any genre other
than classical. Classical and jazz are the only genres where
you pretty much have to master your instrument just to
play it in a mediocre way. Yeah, you know what
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I mean. It's hard, so you have to really master it,
and you have to learn it. You have to really
really know it, you know what I mean. So it
just gives you the tools. Now you have the tools
to do whatever you know. And that's what That's how
I look at it. And even the a lot of
jazz is we love, they don't stop at just playing jazz.
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
No, I know that all of that I know now,
But I think at twenty three I felt I felt
a little of course, like if I saw Jason Moran,
I was like, oh my gosh, does he think I'm
a loser? You know, he's such.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
A serious but he's not. That's the thing about Jason too.
I love Jason which high school too. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I was gonna say he's older, right.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, he's older. He went to school with Chris Dave,
That's right. Yeah, but he has a he's way more
broad and open minded and for other things than people
might think. You know what I'm saying. But he's huge
supportive of mine from the very beginning and all the
things I was doing extra things outside of jazz. He
was like, man, do that shit?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, he gave me advice once too. I did one
of those BLUETOMT fifty anniversary at the Kennedy Center. He
asked me to sing with him and Wayne Shorter. Yeah,
you were there. He asked me to sing with him
with Wayne Shorter, Brian Blade, and John Pattatucci. And I
was so like honored, I'm scared kind of to sing
with him. And then Jason emailed me later He's like,
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you should make a record with Wayne, and I was
like really, And that's why I asked him to play
on that. On that record, I mean he played on
like three or four songs, but absolutely, I know.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It was just like a producers.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
It was like the encouragement that I needed to feel
worthy to even ask. It was really sweet.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, he's that guy.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He's like, give me a little advice for sure. So
it's sweet to me that you want to play Sunrise
because I think of it as a country song, but
I love country. Yeah, of course you're from Texas. Baby.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
My dream is to go onto a Bondie rate one day.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh my god, have you ever played with her? She's great.
I played with him went really Yeah. I got to
sing with her really once. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Even if I get to just play, I can't make
it can't make you love me. Even if I just
even if we just do that, I'm good, just do it.
I'm good. I'm so good, you know what I mean.
You know, I sat with Bruce Hornsby one day.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I forgot that was his.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah, oh man, he we sat the piano one day.
I'm a huge Bruce Hornsby fan. Yeah, and we sat
at the piano one that he showed me like how
he played it and hooked it up, you know, like, yeah, yeah,
he's great.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I just learned recently that that's him, really, because you know,
growing up, I never knew what was what. I just
didn't pay attention. I didn't have the album. I knew
that song by heart from the radio.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You know, it's one of the greatest songs.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It's such a great song.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Written by football player. Really, you know, Donald was produced it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I don't know any of this.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Wait, you don't know Don produced it. I didn't know
that Don. Yeah, So shout out to Down was by
the man. When you get a minute, have Don tell
you the whole story of how he ended up producing
Look at the Draw. That's the album Bonnie right, Look
at the Draw. That's his first album that he ever produced.
That's the way it came up. Was just so random.
It was super random and you just have to ask
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him about it. It's a long story, but it's amazing.
But he produced that song and Bruce Hornsby playing piano
on it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
He's a football player who wrote it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I don't know the guy. I don't know the guy's name,
but he was the butler was watching TV. He was
watching something like Cops, one of the shows, and the
guy had handcuffs and then I think and he I
have an argument with his wife. And when he was
before they put him in the car, he was like,
I can't make it love you don't. So the guy
wrote a song, but Don was said the song was fast.
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He was like, I can't make you love me if
you don't blow up. So Don was like, bro, let's
let's let's let's slow it down, and he it was
his idea to like slow it down and make it
a thing. They brought Bruce hornsby and hook up some more,
you know, some nice changes, and then yeah, then they
recorded it money rate and it was it was Don's
I did for the drummer. I met the drummer. They
can't he can't show one of my shows with Don.
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Don was like a drummer and I can't make you
love me?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
It was Don's idea to make it. Do you have
him used brushes?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It's just the saddest sentiment and so beautifully said.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Amazing that that song and Time at the time. You
know I played that with Cindy Love did you? I
manifested that the time was my favorite songs of all time.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I think it's our generation's favorite song of all time.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Like it has to be. It has to be like
top five. It's in there. It's top ten for sure,
but top five, like undisputable. I played at my show
sometimes just to get the audience to do sing alongs
for fun.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Oh I saw that?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, no, not that song.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Time like that you did all that.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
So I would bring Time by Time in and one day,
like four years ago or something, her people called my
people and then it was like, hey, Cindy would love
for Robert to come play at her fundraise or she
doesn't be Oh yeah, I did one of those at
the Beacon Theater. Yes, they wanted to play Time at
the time.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I was like, because she knows that she's cool, because
she checks stuff out.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Oh my God. We rehearsed one time at sir went
and played it literally one time. Everybody was crying. I
was crying, she was crying, her team was crying. Her
team said, Robert, we've been watching her do this song
for forty years, she said, never. They say it's never
been like that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
But isn't it beautiful when you can change the emotion
of something and it comes out like it's.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Just the two of you?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I didn't. First of all, I didn't know it was
gonna be duo. I'm thinking I'm playing with the band.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, just duo.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And she played still guitar what me and her I.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Didn't know she could play still guitar.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Still guitar amazing and piano, and we did it one
time of rehearsal. She was like, that's it. We're not
doing anymore into the show.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, I say it.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
We did that to show. That's one of the most
nervous I've never been. I don't get nervous. That was
I was shaking.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You were nervous.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I was nervous.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It was also really naked.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Absolutely super naked. So it's like you hear everything, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That was like, yeah, that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That was Yeah, one of the greatest moments.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Sunrise. It's a lot down. I'm not gonna play. I
want you to play. Is that cool?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The core is enough?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You know?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I think I did. We'll see where it takes us.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I never get accompanied by another pianist.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
You always come to yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I think, I like have a thing with it,
and I really like it. But this is a treat
because it's you.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's fun for me.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I love it. I think a little setup here, that's right,
that's like.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
A little of that on an empty stomach. Whatever you want,
it don't matter.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Again, let me say, then it goes to the.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay, and then just look at me and got it.
That's pretty m.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
H m hmm.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Sunrise, Sunrise looks like.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Morning in your rides.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Where the clock's hail nine fifteen.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Four hours sunrise.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Sunrise couldn't tell to sif it try, because the afternoons
already coming along.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And I said, who.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Said to you? Surprise Surprise couldn't find it in your ads,
(19:58):
but I'm sure it's written all old over my face.
Surprise Surprise never served that I could hide when I see.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You We've made it through another day, and I say.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
To you.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
On night the night, throw its cover down A long.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Me again from Ride is the only.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Way to break me back.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Hoo hoo.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Oh do you.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's just a beautiful song. It's such a beautiful song.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It just makes it.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
It makes your days start just good. You just start
off with day good like that. That reminds me of
like when sunrise. I literally put that on in the morning.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Oh man, it's so beautiful, do you.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I know?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's so great to hear you play it. Man, that
had all that stuff in it. Yeah, all the things
we've been talking about for the last hour. It's funny,
you know. On tour I have Brian Blade is an
incredible singer.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I'm sure no I've heard him saying, yeah, he's a
great singer.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So I've slowly over the years gotten less shy and
like please sing harmonies and he's he's a little shy, yeah,
And I'm like, come on, you got I've tried to
ce tip him a little. Yeah, He's like, yeah, you
got it, but he totally has it. And my favorite
thing is when he sings harmonies on He'll sing on
the ooze and then he'll sing. We do like a
gospel song. He sings and he does like some country
(23:24):
harmonies for me.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Let's try it together.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's pretty. You're sweet. This is the most fun, of course,
(23:55):
thank you for doing this.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
So fun.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Absolutely, let's do your song.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Let it ride. Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I want to do it. Okay. First of all, when
you guys asked me to sing on this run into
the studio.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I wasn't even there.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You weren't even there.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I was on tour. I know exactly. He's like, I
think I can get no where to do it. I'm
going to ask her because she lives right the corner
from the studio.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, yeah, I love that place. Shout out recording Brooklyn Recording.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It's my guy right there. I love that studio too.
It's just so it makes it's so inspiring, it makes
you want to create because he has everything there.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
It's so easy. Yeah. Like we pulled out of Marimbo
once to when we were recording.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
And if he doesn't have it, he has like OCD
with stuff. If he doesn't have it, he gets it. Yeah.
I mean I tricked him. I tricked him. My purposely
was like I was doing something for a score or something.
I was like, hey, do you have a timpany.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
He was like, no, that's why he got the tempany,
that's why you created that. We used it. You used it,
you said on my third album. I'm pretty sure, Oh you.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Don't have it. Well, I'll do that this other studio.
And he got it like literally, like the next day
or the day after. It was like he needs to
get Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I feel like if I ever needed something cool, I
tell Andy that I need it and he finds it
on for me.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, finds it. He has to have it.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, I sang on this song and you said, who
wrote the lyric?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I met her at the Blue Note.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yeah. Muncina Mooncinamncina a great, great vocalist, great songwriter. She
does a lot of stuff with common okay, but yeah,
and she has her own stuff on you know, but
she's she's great and yeah, she wrote. I called her.
I was like, hey, I want to do this song.
Could you please write the lyrics? She was sick and
I was like, just write the lyrics for me, Just
write it and she was like okay, and she did
a little demo for it.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
She sings.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Yeah, she sings. She sings plays and the ranges.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That's so cool.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
And yeah, she wrote this and gave it back to me,
like literally the same day. She's really fast, too, super fast.
And then you met her at the Blue Note.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I met at the BLUEO and I was so excited.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yeah, exactly, shot, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I love this song absolutely, And when I sang it,
you weren't there, but Eli was there. And Eli's like
my brother because he's been he was a Blue notte
when I.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Got signed me too, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
I mean, I don't know about you, but I felt
very lucky to fall into a record label that became
my family.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Absolutely j R.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Gems, absolutely so many others. Yeah, early on, whenever my
first album came out, it was so big, but I
had like this protective bubble even though they were pushing
me to people they weren't. They were like protecting me.
And Bruce, oh my god, Bruce Lonvall.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely yeah, and Eli like like blastsberg.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah. So I was kind of sick when I recorded it,
and I think I was a little bit of a
pain in the butt, Like I was like, I can't
I can't sing today, but it sounds.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Really good sometimes sometimes a little sickness adds a little
something color, a little something exactly. I love it. I
loved it, So let's do it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And Chris, Chris, Daddy Dave on this.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
No, that's that's on that album. That's Mark Cullenberg.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, Mark Collenberg is on the Black Radio too, so
he's doing them on the whole album. People so many
people think that's a really something, but no, it's Mark,
like playing it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I actually thought it was Chris because it sounds like
and he's so good at like.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Exactly, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Mark Holmberg. Mark, that's so cool. It's so good. Absolutely,
I kind of want to play that bar.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
That's dope. Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
By the way, what are the chords? I just want
to know. Yeah, I know I can figure it out.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, No, for sure. It's C minor A minor raise five, yeah,
B flat minor. Yeah, then F minor nine, then D
(28:26):
minor D minor nine, yep, D D then D flat major,
F minor F sharp major.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I'm never gonna remember that. I'm so glad I haven't
recorded so.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I can learn it.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'll do a little thing and then I go into
the actual chords cool.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'll let it ride.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
H m hm h m hmmm mm hmmm mm hm
(29:34):
hm hm.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I've never been a gambler. I stay on the safe side.
You know, someone know I'm all right. But all of
that's what gotten.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
When I'm looking at your eyes, I'm happily out on
olim pull me up.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
From he inside.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Love.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Show me what it feels like. I guarantee anything. So
my love is on the line.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
But a letter ride, a letter ride, A letter ride,
a letter ride.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
It's easier than never know to walk away with noise side,
I know.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Show me what it feels like. Happily do anything.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
If I know I'm by your side. Happily do anything.
If I know I'm by your side. You know, show
me what it feels like. I guarantee anything. So all
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love is on the line.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But letty ride. I let it ride. So Letty ride.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Hira last.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Josh, who.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I let it up? I let him ride.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I laid it ride.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I laid it ride. I let it ride.
Speaker 10 (34:20):
Mm hmm, ok, nice, slow fa.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
When do you tell the mc fair When do.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
You tell the mc fair man, that'd be crazy.
Speaker 10 (34:54):
I don't know, you do know?
Speaker 4 (34:55):
That I don't where it takes me.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Great, It's it's a real like complex thing. It's like
very straight over like something that's very straight but also
nothing straight.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Yeah, absolutely, I love that.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Did you ever do Marri McParland show?
Speaker 10 (35:11):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I did. I did I need to ask you about it?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Yes, I did her show. Man. It must have been
maybe a few years before she passed. Yeah, like maybe
two or three years before she passed.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
I looked forward to that so much because I listened
to her show all the time.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, in high school. Absolutely, you had the tapes going
around man.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yeah. My teacher in high school, Kent ellingson another shout out,
Briker t No, he had acquired a bunch of tapes
of her show from someone who acquired them from someone
in a nursing home who died or something like. It
was a very random and I remember listening in high
school to the Bill Evans one.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah, she's been out here for a minute.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Are you doing the Blue Note again in October? Okay?
Cool plugging, I mean you don't need plugging.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Of course, every October is called Obtoberfest. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
The Blue Note and Jazz.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Club in New York. I do the whole month of
October and like the first week or two of November,
so it ends up being like, you know, six seven
seven weeks, five six seven weeks something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
That's when I started with you, right before the pandemic.
I think.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yeah, But then if we do it and it's a
real gig, you know what I mean, for a few days,
something we can do that, we can do all these things. Yeah,
I'd be amazed. H Maybe we can get Brian and
can do it with this. Yes, and that'll be my
first time.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
We'll make it happen. You're gonna play with Blade and
Bonnie Raid maybe together.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Maybe together.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Let's go, let's book a sash.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, family for life. I'm so happy to do this
with you.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Love you much. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, we did it.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
We did do it.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
We did it.
Speaker 11 (36:53):
Oh my god, Bonnie Ray, Yeah, turned on the babe,
turn down these voices inside my.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Laid down with me.
Speaker 7 (37:14):
Tell me no, lie, just hold me Cale, don't pay no,
don't patron.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Because I can make you love me. If you don't,
you can make your heart feet something. It wll hear
in the doe these fine loud.
Speaker 10 (38:01):
I will lay it down. I feel the power, but
you don't.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
No, you.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Because I can make close if you don't.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
H Yeah, I don't even know what was playing. I
don't even know that.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I who to thunk I can't make you love me would.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Be in this episode.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I didn't think.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I didn't know that was going to happen, and I
missed the first line. But if it was so beautiful.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
I love that he knew the story behind it. Yeah,
how it was written that. It's totally hilarious. God, and
I want to make him and Bonnie meat now.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Oh yeah, I have to shed do that. Yeah, a
little pair and Brian. Yeah, that was so fun.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
It was so fun to hear him play piano on
Sunrise because I felt like his playing adds like a
new feeling to it.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Oh, it was totally different and so beautiful. He's so good.
It's interesting. We went to see him at the Blue
Note probably four years ago, and it was such an
incredible show and he's such an incredible musician. But I
feel like a lot of the show he's spent featuring
other people, and there was only a few minutes where
he really let loose and I was like, whoa, Yeah,
(39:48):
it's like he can do so many different types of shows.
Sometimes his shows are like that where he's featuring all
these people in the groove and the songs and he's
playing incredibly But and then when he does like a
trio show, when he really gets to playing, he's an
insane musician.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
Like his group name Robert glasper Experiment. It's very experimental,
like it's kind of like anything goes and it's very
you never know what you're gonna get, so it's for
the audience. It's so engaging, and he also includes the
audience and so much.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Of it it does, which is really fun. His shows
are so fun. You have to go see him if
you haven't, and it was it was so nice to
you just hear him play piano too, you know, like
an acoustic piano back to the old days of jazz camp.
In case you miss the names of any of the
songs in this episode, the first song we played was Sunrise,
one of my songs, and that was really fun. And
(40:39):
then the second song was let It Ride, which is
a song I sang on for one of Robert's albums,
Black Radio Tube, and so in case you're looking for that,
and then the third song was of course, I Can't
Make You Lucky, funny rat classic.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Yes, thanks so much for listening to our Robert glassper
episodes are two parter, our first first two parter.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
But it was just there was so much good stuff.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
We didn't want to cut anything.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, and we didn't want it to be too long
a longie. Thanks to Robert, and thanks to you for
listening and you just said that, And.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
Thanks again to everyone who sent us emails and messages
to let us know who your dream guests are. Yes,
we hear you, We hear you, and our wheels are spinning.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Spinning, We're working on it, working on it. We're on it.
Thank you, Thank you, love you Bye. This episode was
recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, California, by Clint Whelander,
assisted by Zach Zaidel, edited by Sarah Oda, mixed by
(41:45):
Jamie Landry. Additional engineering by Pete Hanlon and Matthew Vasquez.
Artwork by Eliza Fry, Photography by Shervin Linez. Produced by
me and Myota. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to like
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