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B-Side Morning Brew with Bij & Niles is a unique radio show broadcasted on 91.5FM KUNV Jazz & More in Las Vegas, pairing music and lifestyle through tasteful consciousness. Live the Lifestyle™. Shows air the first Sunday of each month.
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Good morning and welcome.
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You're listening to beside morning brew would be at Niles had coffee, who chat. chillin on the corner of lifestyle app
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and music stream on 91.5k would
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be jazz.
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And we're recording. We're in. We're plugged in. Ready to go. The Matrix we're in here we are in whether we like it or not,
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man, I'm so tired. I'm trying to like, I'm trying to be that whole like the hills are alive. With the sound of music. I can't get there, man. Let's start with our sip of coffee going. Oh, yeah, that's it.
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That's what's good, brother. Good. No, I'm gonna turn it on the switch. I will say can't shut it down.
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And also when the weather like, our weather here has just changed so drastically. I mean, now it's just like, I imagine it's the same in Boston, but like here, it just all of a sudden got cold. You know?
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Yeah. No, Boston. Yes. Yes. It was 80 degrees on Friday, last Friday. And then it was 50 degrees the next day. Yeah. And now it's 42. The winter chill has is upon us. Okay.
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No, it's good. It's good. It's, I think, yeah, it just downshifting that quickly
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for you. You know, you're always you're always rocking the lids and the beanies and stuff. But now, you actually look appropriate wearing your beanie. It's actually cool.
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Although I don't know if you've noticed this, but lately on on the social media. I've been rockin without the hats. I've been allowing you
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Oh, we're gonna use it. Alright. Nothing wrong with that. I mean I mean it. Oh, no.
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Right. Because it's been, I don't know why. But it's been years since I've done that because I'm normally always wearing you know, some sort of lid, you know, mostly always my flat caps. And then I'll wear a ball cap every now and again. Of course my bees
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will have this scarf when it is yeah. And you and your beloved Peacock, you're gonna bust that out?
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Oh, yeah. I got a hand. You know, I think most of my wardrobe is our coats.
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Man with the shirts. Man with the coat.
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It's so true. It's so true, though. It's crazy. So anyway, we're all here. You know, get well you got the family getting ready for the big Thanksgiving. Right. We're all we're all gearing up for the special day coming up.
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Well, let's be completely, you know, Halloween is the gateway to the fall. You know, once you hit that, once you pass that threshold, you're in deep. Yeah. I mean, you're in deep. Yeah. You might as well be Christmas tomorrow.
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Wow, it feels it's feeling like that big time. Yeah. Now you're doing the are you doing so when you do Turkey doing the whole big? What do you call it when you fried up when you put it in the big fryer and burn the house style? What
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do we do? It's because I'm black Rambler fried turkey. Well,
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you knock it off. No.
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No, no, actually what we do, and this is a key to juicy turkey. My wife is exceptional making turkeys. Yeah, you use a smaller hen. Okay, so yes, like seven, seven pounds to, you know, six to seven pound hand. We do two of those in the oven at once. So you get twice as many legs twice as many much breasts. Me? Yeah. Five everything. Yeah. And they come out just amazingly juicy and flavorful. Because for many reasons, not the least of which it doesn't take as long to cook. It was supposed to be like a half hour of cooking time for every pound or something like that.
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Every time I've done like a 12 to 14 pound turkey. It's about three and a half hours. Right. So
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there's some metric that's used. But yeah, anyway, see, you do two smaller hands and you get twice as much twice as many options right?
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Yeah. Now when you guys do the stuffing Do well you're getting a handle. Do you cook at the same time? It's okay, so I do stuff it as well when it's no no. Oh wow,
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my mom makes separate casserole dishes. Okay. Gotcha. And the PST resistance is the macaroni and cheese. Whoa, whoa, whoa cheese macaroni cheese. Yeah,
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I don't even know what to say that. I've never had Matt you know look, I love mac and cheese. This is you know, truth be told, but I've never had on Thanksgiving. That's interesting.
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Oh yeah. For cheese macaroni and cheese stuff. And then I make my brussel sprouts. You and your brussels
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sprouts.
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And, okay, and garlic and onion. Nice. I paid and then boiled fruit. Yes.
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Yes. Wow. That sounds
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pies. You have people commissioning? You're often commissioned to make pies. You're the Pie Guy.
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Yeah, it was funny with the hot with with Thanksgiving is my favorite meal to cook. I love doing everything. You know from scratch as well. Like, I'll do the stuffing from scratch. It's my mom's recipes to the mash. I make the best garlic mashed potatoes, I think ever. I will say that. But with the pies. Yeah, you know, it's like it's starting to take off here. But you know, why being here? What, seven years now? Something like that. You know, back at back in LA. Yeah, like I just became famous for my homemade apple pies, which is, you know, it's just it's a special ingredient that goes into that just kind of, you know, I can't I it's a secret recipe. I can't tell. But I think last year I made about four or five pies for people. You know. That's my that's my thing. Yeah. I love a good apple pie, though. And then moving on to music. You just got back just a couple of weeks ago, right from Europe. European tour with Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Yep. So you're gone for what was it? Two weeks? 1415 days is okay. Yeah.
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We're in let's see seven countries 1415 days. Let's see. We're in Amsterdam, another city in the Netherlands, Louvre Arden, Hamburg, Germany, Dusseldorf, Germany and Dusseldorf. Dusseldorf, yeah, and also the often Hamburg, Vienna. Nice third, Berto, the Czech Republic. Budapest, Hungary and Stockholm, Sweden. Wow, man. All of these contracts were sold out
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and playing. Playing the size venues. 20 2500 kinda like the Reynolds hall here. Smith Center. Right.
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Yeah, point playing 120 500. Yeah. And each one are the premier performing arts venues in their respective countries. Yeah, Vienna Opera House. B L Philharmonie. And Homburg, which is an $800 million venue. Whoa, that also houses like a four seasons or an Intercontinental Hotel, something like that. I see. It's actually a building within a building. It's completely soundproof. Wow. And they did that because it's up against the water shipping lane that goes to Humber. Okay, and they're, the barges would have horns that would cope up. Yeah. Concerts. Yeah. Or the concert venues that aren't soundproof? You have to be conscientious. Yeah. Wow.
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That sounds amazing, though. Yeah, it's pretty cool. In terms of the crowd, how did you feel like how was you know, I'm sure you get well, they're sold out shows. Right. So it's,
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so it was such a wide range of ages. Yeah, demographics. It was very well represented. Yeah, diversity was so it was kind of cool to see just as many young people taking in live jazz programming, as well, as you know, the tried and true, more mature audience members. Be careful, be careful, right. So yeah, was excellent. It was really good time. A lot of time on the bus to chit chat and, you know, talking to us with the other band members, and here it was, you know, if you're still friends at the end of two weeks, and you must have been doing something right after traveling that much.
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Well, and also just those amount of shows back to back so to speak. I mean, I imagine the shows, energetically music everything would get better and better. You know, say even three, four or five shows in Absolutely.
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Part of being a pro them you know, no matter how you're feeling, or how tired you are, or whatever, you never let the music suffer. Right. The music always comes first. Yeah, yeah, just to be in front of those audiences to see that we've received so amazingly, that's so beautiful. It speaks to how they disseminate and how they promote music. There's each country or each place we were in. They have a a state run, you know, radio station that is dedicated to that. or promoting the music of that venue or that you know, Oh, nice. So, yeah, yeah, I just have so much more communication with the audience and, and I think K u and v is kind of is like that where they have so many different options to promote live music, and it's a public radio station. So I hope that more stations around the country in America will Boston.
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Yeah, yeah. Now you guys were also I know that. I know Clayton Hamilton's got the new album out. Right. So we guys promoting that as well texting or
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calling kind of sort of, we had just finished it in August. So yeah, you know, getting as you know, putting an album together takes more than a couple of weeks. So it literally was released. The second day, we were on tour. Oh, wow. Okay, yeah.
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So no so with some of the repertoire from the album on did you guys play any those a
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couple of cars? Yeah. And in fact, yeah, let's hear one of those. Yeah, that's so one of the tunes that we did definitely on the tour was patient fights on which is a tune that was originally written by Charles Mangus, who's a bass player, like John Clayton, and this is John Clayton's treatment of patient fight song, performed by the claim Hamilton Jazz Orchestra you're listening to beside morning group, Bayesian Niles, on 91.5k u and v jazz and more
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Welcome back, you're listening to beside morning brew with big denials. That was a patient fight song by Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra off their new album called and so it goes with Bijon here on lead trumpet. Beautiful tune, man slam in tune. So cool. And that you said that that just came out right when you guys were out on tour, just a couple of weeks. The second
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day of our authority was going crazy. Crazy. We're in the Netherlands when it was released.
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Yeah, that's so cool, man. Love that. Love that. Which leads me into, you know, we've been talking about our new album, or our new collection of songs that we're going to collaborate on, and which we've never done before actually collaborate. And it's funny, because as I mentioned recently, you know, because we have a bit of a timeline we want to work from and it's been difficult because I haven't been it's not that I haven't been inspired. I just haven't been listening to certain to certain music that will that that would get me there to try to figure out you know, at least the first step and at least sending you over a couple bars of a you know, a lyric or an idea of something you know,
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and moving into your house to there's that
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but you know, you have stuff in the background was and it was the other day I heard it just by accident, or maybe it wasn't by accident. They were celebrating Art Blakey. And Art Blakey is moanin was playing, and it just really hit me and I thought, bam, that's okay, now I'm inspired, you know, I've got this idea. And the funny thing is, I know that, again, this is because we've never collaborated. So for me, if I were to just take this idea and run with it, run with it all by myself, it would probably go more down that road or state stay in that road, you know where Art Blakey was, but I'm excited about getting it over to you, whatever it is I come up with based on inspiration, because it's going to change.
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Well, that's what that's what's about. I mean, you know, we do obviously have similar tastes in a lot of ways, in a lot of ways. So it'll be interesting to see how working together instead of me adding to one of your tunes, and you adding to one of my tunes, truly finding that peanut butter and chocolate combination. Right?
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Yeah, totally fun. So, ya know, I'm looking forward to it. I mean, you know, I mean, musically is as you know, and I'll start sharing this with with our audience as things progressed, but I'm also working on a on a different project that I'm titling, it's something different, but not so much. In the jazz vein, it's a bit more I guess it's a bit more rockabilly, got a hint of maybe a little country twang to it kind of thing. But I've been going back to one of my favorite artists, or band was was the stray cats back in the day. And then so as a result, I've been listening to you know, Brian Setzer and the stray cats and then of course, the, the, you know, his orchestra and just honestly being reinvigorated with the guitar just learning. You know, I've done this before, because I've obviously produced that artists who we got a record deal for that that was down that vein anyway, but it's really nice to get back on the guitar and play play some of that style, you know, but integrate some of those jazz chords with that swing and that kind of rockabilly, you know, fun aspect to it. So my mind's been there as opposed to me trying to figure out Have to jazz stuff to send you a bar to have, you know, have an idea, basically?
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Well, I think the reality is is that all of our, as creatives, all of our outside influences in even different mediums, whether it's a book we're reading, or going up on the slopes and skiing, or going for a bike ride, or our interests influence how we express ourselves musically. So it's important to kind of have lots of different interests outside of just maybe what your wheelhouse is, take yourself out of your comfort zone, and actually start to what's the word I'm looking for? investigate, explore, explore exactly, yeah, start to explore those other places and take it there, take it down a road that maybe is not so familiar. And that lives through putting yourself out there and experiencing different things. So
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it's true. And because it's another project, I'm setting up as a trio. So it's like I have to play guitar differently than I do when we're doing our thing. But what I'm excited about, and with this new inspiration is how I'll be integrating the guitar into what we're doing and having more of a role rather than just, you know, I love being like the background or like the guitar having a bed just a nice bed of sound. But now I'm having to express it differently and be more lead and all that kind of thing. So yeah,
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I've talked about the fact that you're playing on these tunes. You're not You're not Yeah, you're kickback and Robert Manhattan right, where you're working. Right, you're gonna you're gonna give us some of that guitar flavor.
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Yeah, yeah, that's
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what I'm looking forward to today. Participation that people don't realize that you're super talented. And you need to do more of that.
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Thank you. Thank you, man. Well, the the other thing too, I was talking to a buddy of ours. He's a, you know, he's a photographer that shoots a lot of famous artists and stuff. And him and I have known each other since the fourth grade, but it was funny when I let him hear a sample of what I've been doing. He goes, Oh, you have your you've got your house voice. And what he was referring to is that, you know, for the last few years or whatever it's been my, as you know, my singing on these albums have been more mystery, you know, like, just a mystery and kind of soft and whispery, and that kind of vibe, but now like I'm seeing full voice so it'll be interesting to see where it goes to with what were you and I are doing and how I approach those songs vocally as well. It's definitely a whole new thing for us. No doubt, you know, which is cool. Which leads me into I would love to I would love to speak in a bride sensors orchestra there's a song that I'd love to share with the audience. It's just you know, it's just a good funny for me right because I'm normally the dark brooding one in the music's always dark and brooding but this song is not anyway, this song is called you're the boss by the Brian Setzer orchestra here on 91.5k and V jazz and more on the beside morning brew with beach and Nile show
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when the girl is a guest and I just gotta keep insisting Oh baby you shall do you swing just got to keep dead you got me inside out
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Romans
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downhome Romans and obey when it comes down to
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when the moon is shot and bright
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Yo
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Yo my girl to know when which way the wind is blowing? Oh sure I was the wind Yo Jake maybe you're a genius when it comes to
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Shannon Rado you're the boss you're the you're the boss
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baby You're a genius when it comes to cooking up some chill it's
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just got to keep going oh shows you swag
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you got me beat up all right no the boss the boss maybe you're the boss you know you know what I like it we say that I'm the boss. Tonight I'll be the boss and tomorrow I'll be the
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Lego
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Welcome back you're listening to beside morning brew with Bayesian Niles on 91.5k u and v jazz and more. That was your the boss performed by the Brian Setzer orchestra band that's pretty cool. I gotta be honest, I hadn't heard that song before it so thanks for bringing that to our attention.
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I know you're you're you know you're big band and orchestra guy you know I think you got a trophy for something wreck so I figured I I figured I'd surprise you because you know
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what's right. You're full of surprises. Yeah. Picking up where we left off in terms of having different influences musically to help us express with our likes our musically. It's important to go down lots of different routes. So we'd like to thank 91.5k u and v jazz and more for being our media partners and allowing us a platform to be able to share our creative experiences with you in our lifestyle, and allowing us to engage with our amazing audience.
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We'd also like to thank high note roasters,
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what would beside morning brew be without great coffee. And of course we'd like to thank our listeners. If you'd like to know more about what Niles and I are doing. You can visit Niles thomas.com or be John watson.com. You can keep track of us. Have a happy Thanksgiving. And we'll look forward to connecting with you in December.
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Good morning everyone.
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Enjoy your Sunday and morning brew.
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You been listening to besides morning brew with bees and Niles chillin on the corner of lifestyle app
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and music stream on 91.5k u
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and v jazz
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