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NICHOLAS: So, my name
is Nicholas Moreland.

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I'm a photographer.

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In regards to this series,
I curate all the bands.

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So, every band that has played
in the Hemmingway Room,

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in our jazz series,
here in Baltimore,

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I book the bands.

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And basically, I created a
jazz venue with my Uncle

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and I booked all my
friends to come play that

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just happen to be some of the,

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the baddest
musicians in the area.

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ED: My name's Ed Baldi.

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I have, uh, lived here in
Baltimore for 16 years and,

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uh, this is very much
my home, here and, uh,

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in this, this,
this venue too,

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Little Havana is very
much part of the community.

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I live half a block up
the street with my family,

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my wife,
and two boys.

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This is about
building community and,

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what little bit can
I do to make the city,

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the place where
we live, you know,

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our community and our home?

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And, you know, lending my,
my production skills,

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my background in, uh,
performance and in promoting

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and producing, to help
create this jazz series.

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Some people work on cars,
I like to work on a Rhodes.

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(rattling).

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NICHOLAS: It's smooth jazz.

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This, this show,
like I was surprised,

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this show was not
what he's known for.

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ED: I forget who we had
playing with drums that night

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with him but, man,
this kid on drums...

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NICHOLAS: Oh, he killed it.

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The bass player is...

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ED: I often say this
is not jazz brunch, right?

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Nothing against jazz brunch,

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I love jazz brunch.

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But I think, um, a place
where young musicians who are

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expressing themself in
today's voice of jazz music or

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music in general, right,
um, trying to create that,

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a place where there's
just a free expression.

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They can come
here and feel at home,

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to be in front of an
audience and create their

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music as they want.

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So, it's about
making that little space and

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someone stumbles
into and goes,

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"Oh wait, like,
where did this come from?"

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NICHOLAS: So I
think in, you know,

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having this program and

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having this jazz series
here in Baltimore,

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it's helped me to
establish relationships with

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some of the local musicians
who have heard about what we're

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doing by word of mouth
and who have led me to book

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the people that they
think best represent

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the jazz scene in Baltimore.

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You know, you find a root,

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like, you find a
root of the scene,

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and you dig
deep into that,

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and then that leads
you, you know,

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into the branches,
into the fruits, you know?

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So, I think, uh, like
getting tapped into people like

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Clarence Ward III,
like Lionel Lyles,

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uh, like Quincy Phillips,
uh, Brandon Woody.

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When you invest in
them and you see the,

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the genius of what they're
doing and you respect it

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and you want to,
you know, present it,

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uh, in a room where people
want to come and listen,

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I feel like they'll,

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they'll lead you to
where you need to go next.

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ED: This is a
musician's space.

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It's not about how many
people you can bring or

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what your draw is.

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We operate on a, it's a
guaranteed fee for you as

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an artist to
come in here and,

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and perform
for this audience.

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So, it's trying to
create a space that is

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by artists for artists.

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I don't want to say
the audience doesn't matter,

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I kind of sometimes say,
"Ah, the audience doesn't..."

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The audience pays for
tickets, so yes, it help,

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we couldn't do it
without an audience.

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But the more that the
artists feel like they're

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in their living room and,
and being paid for their art,

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the audience is privileged
to kind of peer into this world.

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That's the philosophy
behind, uh, you know,

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why we operate in
this, in this way.

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We thank Little Havana for
helping to make that happen.

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I think that's the
beautiful thing, we're,

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to have the privilege of
been given this room to say,

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"Do what you want in it."

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You know, they are
the, the rock stars,

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or jazz stars in
this case, right?

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I want to give that,
that feeling.

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Nick and I want them
to walk in and feel like,

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and have the experience of,
"Hey, we're catered to.

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We're gonna take care
of you like the artist that

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you are no matter what
size following you have."

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BRANDON: You know,
people always ask me like,

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"Yo, you always, you know,
you always playing,

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you always
traveling and stuff.

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Do you have a manager?"

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And, and it's, I mean,

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I guess I can say,
yes and it's myself.

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EPHRAIM: Our mother is
pretty much responsible

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for every single opportunity
that we have ever gotten.

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And our mother would
be our first, you know,

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our supporter,
our manager.

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She'll walk up to people like
Kenny Garrett being like,

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"Hey, these are my
babies, you need to,

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you need to check
these guys out."

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(laughter).

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BERNADINE: Every day have
conversations about every

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aspect of what anything I
think they may come up against

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and having a good heart and
good energy is real important.

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'Cause everybody's not nice,
the world isn't like that.

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Before they play, I want
people when they meet them

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to feel their goodness
as opposed, you know,

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before they even
hit the stage.

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So, that was important.

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All three of us,

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we're still learning as
we go but every gig isn't

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a good gig to take
and sometimes you can

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tell by the
conversation with people.

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So, they don't accept every
opportunity given to them,

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'cause they've learned how to
navigate and what feels right

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or doesn't feel right.

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ED: You know, and the
business side he's entering,

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you know, as, as a musician,
trying to find gigs or,

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or venues to play in,
so often it's, you know,

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"How many people
can you draw?"

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Or pay to play situation,
"Here are some tickets,

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you sell them and
you can play here."

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Last thing I want to do
is be that kind of space.

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BRANDON: I've been, you know,
handling all of the business,

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all of the contracts,
you know, hitting venues up.

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Advocating for the group,

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making sure that
we're protected,

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paid on time.

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You know, the most
important thing to me,

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uh, everybody in my band,

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including myself,
feels respected,

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feels comfortable,
and feels, you know,

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like this is a like
everything that we're doing

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is, is, is a worthwhile and,
a worthwhile experience.

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EBBAN: Something
I wanna, you know,

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highlight is that as
musicians we are storytellers

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and, you know,
we've been going to

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watch performances for years.

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And, you know,
from hearing set lists,

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from standards to originals,
like you kind of understand

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like there's like a art
and an intention to what song

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comes at right
after the other,

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and also like an intention
of who solos on what,

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and like how that
will musically build.

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And so, yeah,
I mean before the show,

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we sat down and we looked
at all the songs we had

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and we sat here and
really thought about like,

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"Okay, we're
going to do this and

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I think this would
sound good after."

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And so, it's definitely
an intention behind

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like the order and...

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I mean it's also like,
it's fine 'cause it's,

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it's also like great music so
it's going to be good whatever.

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But, you know, we definitely
put a lot of thought into,

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um, building a story
and it's cohesive and like,

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not necessarily
easy to understand

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but it's enjoyable
for the listener as well.

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EPHRAIM: When I'm writing,

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I'm also influenced by
a lot of other things.

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I don't just think in the
tradition of the music that

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we play, you know, like
jazz and stuff like that.

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My brother and I,
uh, Ebban too, we're,

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we're big gaming nerds,

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so not only do we
just play video games,

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we listen to a lot
of the soundtracks, um.

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How sometimes, you know,
a boss fight would, you know,

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transition to a different
scene where they're showing

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some crazy scenery,

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and the score for
that kind of captured

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all those events perfectly.

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EBBAN: Mm-hmm.

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EPHRAIM: So, when I'm
in my writing process and

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I'm thinking about
things I want to write about,

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I'm thinking about that
same sort of process when

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it comes to storytelling.

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It's not just like, "Oh,
we're gonna play this section

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and then this section,
and then just repeat that."

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It's always like,
sort of like a story

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that's kind of flowing
into each other.

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There's a lot of
sections that go to

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the next part
like puzzle pieces.

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The process is
very sporadic like it,

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it changes every time
I write a, a new song.

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It's just, I come across stuff,
um, in different forms.

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I wrote this a little
bit over a year ago.

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This was paying,
um, homage to, um,

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a musician who was a
really good figure for us,

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um, in terms of,
you know,

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getting me on the
tenor saxophone,

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but always looking
out for us musically,

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making sure that, um,
there were no bad people,

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or spirits,
or energy around us.

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He was like our big Uncle to
us, uh, we lost him to Covid.

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His name was Howard KingFish.

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And I used that,
those emotions

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and that spirit
to write this song.

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It's got a lot
of parts to it,

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um, each section is
basically, you know,

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an expression of different
emotions that I felt

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through that process,

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and the ultimate
theme or lesson that

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I wanted to get out of
writing this is to pay respects,

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um, to the people
that you love and

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care about while
they're here.

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BRANDON: This one.

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It's good, man.

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I just feel like
us trying to rely

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on this one
would enjoy this...

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ED: Yeah, I should
probably be vocalized.

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Let, let me know when
we're back down here.

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BRANDON: Okay.

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And then I was, I would
still want like these

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coming out of
these monitors too.

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ED: Okay.

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MAN: Yeah, we good.

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MAN 2: After you
do that, we good.

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EBBAN: Man, we've known
Brandon for a long time.

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Like when we first
got into Peabody Prep,

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we were probably like
nine or ten or something.

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So, we saw him in the improv
class before we got into

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the older group
and it was just like,

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he was one of the best.

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And so, for us, we just
looked up to him and,

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you know, he was coming
every Saturday like, just...

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I don't know,
he was just amazing.

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So, he was like a big
brother for us, for sure.

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And we always played
on the same concerts because

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it was like the young group
first and then the older group.

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So, it was just, we've, we've
known him for a long time.

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Long time.

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EPHRAIM: Yeah, and it's,
it's very beautiful to see

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the type of musician
he's grown to today.

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EBBAN: Yeah.

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EPHRAIM: Um, and the
person that he's, um,

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you know, sort
of evolved into, um.

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He's a great
person to be around

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and he's been representing
Baltimore really well.

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EBBAN: Yeah.

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EPHRAIM: Um, and again,
we've been looking up to him

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ever since we've, you know,
kind of started our musical

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process and he's always,

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he's never
looked down on anybody.

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He's been, you know,
a great, um, a great peer,

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and in some cases he's
been a great mentor for us.

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EBBAN: Mm-hmm.

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EPHRAIM: You know,
teaching us, um...

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Just growing along with him.

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It was, it was such an honor
to be able to share

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that stage with him 'cause
we've never done something like

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that in all the years that
we've known each other so...

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EBBAN: Yeah.

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EPHRAIM: To get that
opportunity to do that

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with him was,
was amazing.

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NICHOLAS: So, when
the bands come here,

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full meals for the band,

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drink tab from the
band, but also, uh,

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a very professional mixed-down
live recording from my Uncle,

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and then professional
photography by me.

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Which includes, you know,
live band performance shots

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and then kind of
studio band portraits.

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It's a pretty sweet deal
like I don't know any other,

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uh, kind of venue that
includes all those things.

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And myself and my Uncle
like love this so much that

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we really want the musicians
to feel at home and to,

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to feel like they're,
they're being respected

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and that we, uh,
appreciate what they do.

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And it's, it's our way of,
of giving back to the scene

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of bringing artist skill to the
table, on the house, you know?

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ED: It's creating a safe
space for those artists to,

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be free, perform, take chances,
be themselves, try things.

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Like I, I can't tell you how
fulfilling it is to be able

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to create a space
where artists can come in

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and this can happen,

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and audiences can
experience this.

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Just being a fly on
the wall and just going,

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"Oh, look, how
did this happen?"

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That, that's
the biggest joy.

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There, there's a
quote that, uh, Nick

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and I read during,

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when we were
dreaming this up, uh,

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and I think it's a,
the late neurologist

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Oliver Sacks,
and it was,

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"Music can lift us from
depression or move us to tears.

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It's a tonic, an elixir,
orange juice for the ears."

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EBBAN: Um, when it
comes to like concerts

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and things like that,

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I'm always trying to heal the
audience with what I'm doing.

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So, it's
definitely like,

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jazz is the art
form to do that.

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BRANDON: I'm trying
to bring different people,

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different groups of people
together with this music.

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I'm, I'm, I'm trying to
make poignant experiences.

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I'm trying to connect
to my audience members.

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I'm trying to...

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When I write the when
I sit down at the piano,

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and when I
write these songs,

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and when me and Troy sit
down and write these songs...

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It's to heal
ourselves, you know,

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from the experiences that
we've experienced growing up,

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from the things that we're
still dealing with to this day.

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Sometimes it's to celebrate that
we got through those things.

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Knowing that this music
was initially made to

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heal myself and the
folks in this band,

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I know that it
has that healing power

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and can be used to
heal folks outside of us.

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You might've just heard me
'cause I was playing outside,

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you might be two blocks down
but you just heard the trumpet,

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or you just heard,
heard the song

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and that might've
affected you.

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I've, I've had folks
tell me after concerts,

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"Brandon, I needed
this to continue."

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And I don't know
what that means 100%,

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I don't know what
they were continuing,

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if that means they needed this
to move on or, or, or, or, or

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to go, go do their
next thing today, or gave,

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gave them the
energy to go to work,

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or, or what that
necessarily meant.

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But, but
to hear that,

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it put a battery in
my back, it's like,

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"Man, like, now that I've
not only seen the effect

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that this music has
had on myself, my family,

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now I get to see the effect
that it has on strangers,

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on, on folks out
in the world."

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And I'm, and I'm, I'm,
I'm sure of it, you know?

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I'm, I'm...

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I'm sure of, of what it is
and it and it is undeniable.

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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(cheering).

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BRANDON: Please give it up
for Ebban Dorsey on alto.

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(cheering).

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BRANDON: Ephraim Dorsey
on tenor.

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(cheering).

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BRANDON: Troy Long on keys.

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(cheering).

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BRANDON: Quincy Phillips
on drums.

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(cheering).

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BRANDON: Mike Saunders on bass.

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MAN: Mike!

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MAN 2: Mike!

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BRANDON: My name is
Brandon Woody and

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thank y'all so much.

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We are UPENDO.

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Artworks is made possible in
part by...

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