Backroads
32nd Street Jazz
Season 10 Episode 6 | 26m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Blending 60s bop, 70s funk, and 80s pop into jazz classics, originals, and genre mashups.
32nd Street Jazz began with a shared love of 1960s hard bop and post-bop jazz, ‘70s funk/fusion, ‘80s pop rock, and show tunes. Their sound is a mix of jazz classics, originals, and signature mashups that break down the divisions between genres.
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Backroads is a local public television program presented by Lakeland PBS
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Backroads
32nd Street Jazz
Season 10 Episode 6 | 26m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
32nd Street Jazz began with a shared love of 1960s hard bop and post-bop jazz, ‘70s funk/fusion, ‘80s pop rock, and show tunes. Their sound is a mix of jazz classics, originals, and signature mashups that break down the divisions between genres.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWe met at, a community band at South High School in Minneapolis, which is on 32nd Street, and that's where our name came from.
We were all playing in the big band, and just got the idea to do something else on the side, and it turned into this.
So it's been pretty fun.
Writing instrumental music, the story that you're telling is kind of nebulous.
But I keep a list on my phone of the song title ideas that I've had over time.
And then when I'm starting to write a piece of music, I'll look at the list and see if one of the titles fits it.
And then that also kind of steers the direction it goes.
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