♪♪ ♪ You said you wanted to see Paris.

♪ ♪ So I took you to the movie.

♪ ♪ "Bon Amie," or something French like that ♪ ♪ And then you said you were embarrassed ♪ ♪ 'Cause I never bought you jewelry ♪ ♪ Television shopping fixed all that ♪ ♪ Funny thing.

♪ ♪ Because I haven't seen you lately ♪ ♪ When I called your house, ♪ ♪ It wasnt you who told me ♪ ♪ I heard it all from your dad.

♪ ♪ I used up all my money on you, baby.

♪ ♪ And I want it back ♪ ♪ I said I want it back.

♪ ♪ I used up all my money trying to please you.

♪ ♪ And I want it back.

♪ ♪ You remember late last winter ♪ ♪ You said that had nothing to wear.

♪ ♪ Those fak fur pajamas looked real nice.

♪ ♪ I couldn't take you to ♪ ♪ Miami, but took you to the ocean, ♪ ♪ and we had some blue Hawaii on the beach ♪ ♪ On the beach.

♪ ♪ Let me think.

♪ ♪ If I add up all you owe me, ♪ ♪ and include my time, I might make it through the summer.

♪ ♪ And I guess that ain't too bad.

♪ ♪ I used up all my money on you, baby.

♪ ♪ And I want you back.

♪ ♪ I said I, want it back ♪ ♪ I used all my money trying to please you.

♪ ♪ Now I want it back.

♪ ♪ And I guess that ain't too bad.

♪ ♪ I used all my money on you, baby.

♪ ♪ And I want it back ♪ ♪ I said I want it back.

♪ ♪ I used up all my money trying to please you.

♪ ♪ Now I want it back.

♪ ♪ I want it all back.

♪ ♪ I said I want it all back.

♪ ♪ Get me my money.

♪ ♪ All back.

♪ ♪ I want my money all back.

♪ ♪ Nah nah, nah nah, nah nah.

♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [Wordless Vocals] [Wordless Vocals] ♪♪ ♪ Time dont wait for no one.

♪ ♪ So my heart, my time, I refuse to waste.

♪ ♪ You thought you knew the score.

♪ ♪ But there's just so much more.

♪ ♪ When you're caught in the race.

♪ ♪ What is love without a flame?

♪ ♪ What's a rose without a name?

♪ ♪ What is pleasure without pain?

♪ ♪ It ain't nothing more than an empty space.

♪ ♪ So give me ♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Give me everything on at all.

♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Nothing less than everything.

♪ ♪ That's all.

♪ ♪ He thought he knew what ♪ ♪ Love was till he fell i the arms of another extreme.

♪ ♪ But who's to say change can't be made?

♪ ♪ It's your world and tomorrow is not guaranteed.

♪ ♪ Can't drive a car without the keys.

♪ ♪ Give me the bow because a bites just a tease ♪ ♪ It's like sweet sweet candy round lemon drops.

♪ ♪ What good's the bottom without some on top?

♪ ♪ So give me everything or nothing ♪ ♪ Give me everything or nothing at all.

♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Nothing less than everything ♪ ♪ Thats all ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Nothing less than everything.

♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Nothing less than everything.

♪ ♪ Give me, ♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Give me everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Nothing less than everything.

♪ ♪ Give me everything or nothing.

♪ ♪ Everything or nothing at all ♪ ♪ Everything or nothing ♪ ♪ Nothing less than everything.

♪ [Worldess vocals] ♪ Give me, ♪ ♪ Everything.

♪ ♪ Or nothing.

♪ ♪ At all.

♪ ♪ Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

♪ ♪ Ooooh, ooh, ♪ [Wordless vocals] ♪♪ [Wordless vocals] ♪ Na na na na na na na na na ♪ All right.

So that, of course, was the theme from Halo, by Martin O'Donnell.

And, that was actually arranged by my trombone counterpart over here, Mr.

Jonathan Zimny.

So he arranged that one.

We only have a couple of tunes left for you, but, just want to say thanks again to KUVO for having us here.

And I just want to I'll go ahead and introduce the rest of the band, just t make sure I didn't miss anybody.

So again, sorry.

On vocals, Lauren Romaine Zimny who's going to be featured on this next tune.

Ike Spivak, David Bernot, Seth Merlin, Jonathan Zimny, Zach Ritchie on the drums.

Tucker Scmidt on the bass, Jake Alvarez on guitar, and Sonya Walker on keys.

And again, I'm Zach Demos.

Thanks so much for joining us today.

We are Nostal>Jazz.

And, hope you recognize something.

That's one of these tunes.

And we're going to continue on.

So we do actually cover a little of everything we've done video games, TV.

This is from a film, from an animated movie.

One of my favorites as a kid This is from Cats Don't Dance.

This is, tune called Tell Me Lies.

This was originally sung by Natalie Cole.

Actually, so this is one of my favorite tunes.

And Lauren's going to sing i for us, so once again, thanks.

We are Nostal>Jazz.

♪ I never believed that there was a rainbow ♪ ♪ with a pot of gold at the end.

♪ ♪ I'm much too smart for fairy tales like that.

♪ ♪ Yet here I am again.

♪ ♪ I thought this time.

♪ ♪ This time we're gonna make it.

♪ ♪ Why I thought so, ♪ ♪ I really don't know.

♪ ♪ Maybe something in his eyes ♪ ♪ just told me so.

♪ ♪ Something ♪ ♪ in his eyes.

♪ ♪ Tell me lies ♪ ♪ and I'll come running ♪ ♪ I must have ♪ ♪ lost, ♪ ♪ my mind.

♪ ♪ I can close my eyes ♪ ♪ and tell you, ♪ ♪ just exactly what's coming.

♪ ♪ Life's gonna turn ♪ ♪ just a little unkind.

♪ ♪ Seems like everyones sailing ♪ ♪ Way out on the sea.

♪ ♪ And I'm stuck here.

♪ ♪ On the shore.

♪ ♪ Suns always shining, ♪ ♪ But it's never for me.

♪ ♪ Why should I try anymore?

♪ ♪ Tell me lies, tell me lies.

♪ ♪ I'll just keep right on coming.

♪ ♪ This time I've got, ♪ ♪ to believe, ♪ ♪ in the dream.

♪ ♪ This time I've got, ♪ ♪ To believe ♪ ♪ in his dream.

♪ So one quick note about this last tune.

Once again, thanks again for having us.

This tune is a little hard to explain.

Is from a game that no one else has played but me.

Probably.

This is based on a, Ronald McDonald.

Video game.

So.

And this is, I actually just recently found out that this tune does have a title.

We've just been calling it McDonald's.

And it's like a cityscape type of a level that you hear this in.

And, the, the tune is actually called Magical Town.

So I finally found that on some weird forums.

But anyway, this is this is our last tune for you.

This is going to feature, Jake Alvarez again on guitar, Ike Spivak on ewi, and, David.

Yes.

No.

Yeah, sure.

David.

Why not?

Yeah.

But once again, yeah.

So this is McDonald's.

And, once again, we are Nostal>Jazz.

Thanks again for listening.

♪♪ Joining me here at the KUVO Studios are few members from Nostalgia>Jazz We've got David Bernot at the sax, Jonathan Zimny at trombone.

Jake Alvarez at guitar, Sonya Walker at piano, and Zach Demos at trombone.

Now, y'all just finished playing a set here with some pretty big sound as a ten piece band, you debuted your music to the world in July of 2022, but personally, I have to imagine that before y'all held instruments, maybe you were holding gaming controllers or watching your favorite shows together at the edge of your seat racing or in an immersing RPG.

Tell me how this all started.

Well, so I've been listening.

What we do isn't, totally original because I've been listening to video game tributes and stuff since I was in high school.

Middle school, high school.

I listen to retro remix review, and like the 1-UP had been around for a long time, so there's just a lot of, bands tha I had already been listening to.

So I always thought it was something I, it was always something I wanted to do.

I've just arranging tunes like, throughout college, without really having any ide if they were going to get played or not.

But, eventually, we actually got our gig before the band actually happened, after we booked a gig.

So nice.

Yeah.

That's funny.

I can go into detail of that if you want.

It's just funny because, s my brother was actually getting married, in December, like, I think New Year's Day.

So we're trying to look, we're scrambling for a place to have kind of like a bachelor party, sort of dinner.

And, the one of the the only place that was open or one of the few places that was open on New Year's Eve was Dazzle.

So of course, so I submitted an application to, you know, reserve a room for Dazzle for this dinner.

And then, I think a couple days later, Donald who was the owner at the time, called me and went over the detail of the of the dinner and stuff.

And then he we kind of went on a tangent about.

So what are you working on?

And that just it threw me because I was like, oh, I wasn't expecting anything about myself because I guess he had seen my music information in my email head or foot or whatever.

And so we started talking about music things and he was like trying to find, some new stuff to bring to Dazzle and I, I gave him some other ideas, and he didn't seem too interested.

And then I mentioned video games.

I had video game arrangements.

And he went that's what we're looking for.

So, that's pretty much what happened as far as booking the gig, we just he said you should play, as soo as you can get a group together.

And so I spent the next couple of months just scrambling to find people.

I went to John first, obviously.

And, John actually did most of the recruiting.

So, thanks.

Thanks to John for that.

You're welcome.

Yeah.

Well, y'all are like prominen players here in Denver, and I'm sure you guys have a shared love of video games and movies and TV themes.

I was listening to your set an some of my favorites came off.

I'm a big Zelda fan.

I love to win a game of Mario Kart.

And you know, the other.

Can you shout out some of those first, maybe themes, that really spoke to you or even the same bucket?

So you keep going back to you because they inspire you.

Yeah.

I mean, just a heavy love of, like, the Ocarina of Time soundtrack, a bunch of, like, there was a couple Sonic the Hedgehog things from, like, the first two, like Sega Saturn and Sega Genesis sorts of things.

Heavily mixed in with, like, again, our love for, like, you know, the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, The Seatbelts, all of that stuff.

And then it just kind of gre like everyone just kept bringing in all of these different things that they loved.

And it was just really coo to see the love for video game music and arranging and playing with all of your like friends just all collide all of a sudden was really beautiful Yeah, I'll kind of add to that.

We play a lot of like more of the mainstream kind of hits that video game hits like the, Sarias Song and Mario Kart 64, but we kind of try to do it in a different way.

Like Sarias Song is in 7/8 a lot of the time, right?

Yeah.

And just kind of try to bring that, out into the world and sho people how cool that stuff is.

And for me, I just, really like the, the epic stuff.

So that's kind of why I like, did the Halo theme, just like I my whole life, ever since I heard that was like, man this would be really cool with an Afro Afro-Cuban beat underneath.

But once I finally got to do it.

So thank you for making this band, Yeah.

It's great.

There's so much creativity, which I love.

And hearing from you guys speak in between.

Y'all bring charts like you're all part of that creativity.

And so when I'm thinking abou jazz, of course, like TV themes and like, blockbuster hit are a definite avenue into jazz.

But the video game stuff, not so much.

You don't hear it as much in mainstream.

I'm looking at your first edition EP.

You have the theme from The Odd Couple, which is a standard, but then you have lik some sounds that as a 90s kid, I was just thrown back to my childhood, like the Mario Kart 64 and the Aquatic Ambiance Donkey Kong, which we heard here today.

Clearl not a fan of Donkey Kong at all.

You know I really think that that music, even though it's so simple and like computer generated those eight bit masterpieces, like there's so much there, but then you're pulling it out, you're bringing in acoustic instruments.

Maybe it starts with a rewatch or a replay to be like, dang, that would sound amazing.

Can you bring us into that process?

It allows you to be so playful, it seems like.

Sure.

Yeah, you go first because you your chart I think is more like further away from the original source material.

I think you did more with it than I, you know.

But yeah.

So I do tie arranged, Aquatic Ambiance from Donkey Kong 64 and, or Donkey Kong Country and, yeah, I kind of I had played it actually with a small group of mine, kind of a silly little band w called, Seahorses Forever.

And, and, you know, we jus kind of played as a lead sheet.

And so I was like, well, I've already played this tune before, and we're doing this video game jazz thing.

So that was the first chart I had brought in to the rehearsals.

And, yeah, I mean, I just I wanted it to be kind of like spacey modern jazz and have like, some kind of, like, long winded piano solo.

And Sonia did such a great job playing on that and, and.

Yeah.

So, I just kind of ran with that and wanted the wordless vocal and thing just to kind of.

I feel like it's so cool that we have so many band members in this group.

And so I really try to play as much with all the different instrument combinations that we have.

And can you shout out the other five that aren't sitting with us today?

Right now?

Yeah, yeah, we have, I could be back on, saxophone and ewi and, we have Seth Merlin on the trumpet and Tucker Scmidt on the bas and Zach Ritchie on the drums.

And then our vocalist, Lauryn Zimny Romaine.

Solid.

Yeah, I know it's such a heavy.

It feels like a super group, honestly, in my personal opinion.

So it really does.

And y'all work really well together.

You can see you're havin a lot of fun playing the music.

I just want to shout out, you guys, because I'm o the show called influenced here, which is all about the way that jazz blends with other genres and pop culture worlds to bring new and exciting sounds to jazz and more importantly, some newcomers, people that are maybe, like, not aware they're listening to jazz.

And I'm sure there are a lot of people playing video games that don't necessarily realize those jazz roots.

Do you guys find that you have some newcomers when you're out playing?

People that are just maybe in love with the scene and that are like, oh, wait a minute.

This is like really cool, really jazz oriented.

So actually one of the last times we played Dazzle, coincidentally, was like at the same time as, like, I like Comic Con convention that was happening, like right next door.

So we were just like, look it out.

Or at least I was like looking at the audience.

And it was just like, oh, wow, you got all thes like characters, like dressed up and all these like, different things.

So it's like, kind of cool to see people who you wouldn' see it, like Dazzle for like a, like a show where you're like swinging but it's just like, wow, like, welcome to this hang and we're happy to have you here.

It's it's really cool really positive and uplifting.

You know.

That's so heartwarming.

And you guys are bringing that energy to dazzle.

Coming up on the third.

And I saw some kind of hats and is that kind of normal for you to bring the video game on to the stage like that or.

Yeah, you know, we've never we've never really had like a formal discussion on like a look.

So I guess we're still I guess we're still trying to figure that out.

But yeah, like we just take whatever I have, like plushies and stuff that I bring to the shows and they hang out with us on stage.

So, we're trying to add to the ambiance.

We actually just started doing, visuals as well.

We have like a slide show, that my other good friend, Kevin Ruby, is kind of our tech guy and has did a slide show at the last, show that we could see visuals o all the stuff that you're seeing Your under selling, it's more on the slide show.

He's got, Clips and yeah, it's like.

It's like an interactive map.

Yeah.

That's.

Yeah, it's.

Thank you.

Yeah.

It's way cooler in a slide show.

[Abi] That sounds awesome.

So some of the video games that you see.

Yeah.

Kind of add some context because again the McDonald song, a game no-one has played.

So we put some gameplay u so you can kind of get the vibe as we'r playing the songs.

Pretty cool.

I mean the music definitely creates these worlds, so that's got to be a cool element.

Thank You so much for joining us here at KUV and bringing your amazing sound.

It was so fun reliving my childhood, and I know that our KUVO listeners are going to be so about it as well.

Yes.

Thank you Abi, we really appreciate this opportunity.

Thank you.

Thank you guys, Nostal>Jazz