I'm Glenn Richards and this is WUFT Amplified showcasing some amazing talent for your listening and viewing pleasure.

On this episode, we're going to meet The Jordan Mobley Jam Band with Jordan on drums, Jonathan Stewart on keyboard and a couple of familiar faces, Tati Sayavedra on bass, Ryan Gamberino on saxophone and Wilson Stern on guitar.

From their 2025 six-song EP, Release, This is “One” from The Jordan Mobley Jam Band, on WUFT Amplified.

[“One” by The Jordan Mobley Jam Band] This next song is called “Attitude.” It's about how you deal with things when they don't go your way.

So, hence the name.

And it's got some fun audience involvement when we do it live so I hope you guys enjoy.

[“Attitude” by The Jordan Mobley Jam Band] That's “Attitude” from The Jordan Mobley Jam Band on WUFT Amplified, “One” ahead of that, both from their six-song EP released in the fall of 2025, Release.

So, thank you for being here today.

Yeah thank you for having us.

Tell us about your journey to The Jordan Mobley Jam Band.

So I was born and raised in Gainesville.

My dad plays organ in church and I grew up around church musicians, so that has a lot of influence on me.

I did some moving around in the service.

I lived in New York and Seattle and some other places.

But it was always nice to kind of think of Gainesville as, you know, the place you can come back and be yourself.

That's really nice to me.

And what was neat about meeting these guys was that everybody gave off the same vibe, you know.

No one's here to be the best musician in the universe.

But everyone's here to make music, and we all have an equal amount of effort invested into this.

So that's really fortunate for all of us and I think you can hear it in our music, too.

So, it's been about a year now, a little over a year, with us playing some stuff and, yeah, we’re just having a good time doing it.

So that's kind of our whole vibe, improv, you know?

And we're just here to here to hang.

Okay, so I was going to ask, that was my next question, what's the difference between like improvisation and jamming?

If there is one?

That's kind of funny.

So I feel like, it's my opinion so all the jazz heads please don't kill me, but, in my opinion, the jamming aspect doesn't really have much of a form.

It's just a few people, maybe in the garage in the summer when it’s really hot, and they just get in there and hit things, or they play a power chord, which all has its place.

But improv, has to be over something.

It has something, it has to have some type of structure.

It's just a matter of how you choose to navigate the set structure.

So I think that's the main difference.

My $0.02.

So how - who does the writing?

It's a cumulative effort.

We just, kind of funny, we just did like a little mini shoot for a thing and, I'll say it then.

I'll say now, like, a lot of times I'll sit at a keyboard or I'll find someone with a bass and I'll get, like a spark of inspiration.

But the rest of the music is all like, collaborative.

For example, “One,” Ryan wrote the melody on that.

You'll hear something else he wrote the melody on.

Wilson, our guitar player, doctored up the melody for Tacoma.

Everything is just my ideas kind of pitched to them and we tweak them, depending on how we like it.

And no one's here, like, throwing out pejoratives saying like, oh, I don't like this.

Everyone is so welcoming and kind and good too, which is like the main aspect so that really helps.

All right.

Cool.

So anything you want to tell us about this next one?

It's not on the EP.

No it's not we actually just recorded it.

And, let’s see today's the seventh, so I just got engaged a little over or less than a month ago.

Thank you guys.

And yeah, so I used to live in New York, like I mentioned, and my fiancé now, which is weird to say, we had to do this long distance thing and I used to live in New York.

But that was also kind of a hard time because I was by myself, but I also like, came into, you know, my own, in my own sound and music.

So I wrote a song about it.

It's called “New York.” All right.

And here it is, “New York” from The Jordan Mobley Jam Band on WUFT Amplified.

[“New York” by The Jordan Mobley Jam Band] [“Tacoma” by The Jordan Mobley Jam Band] [“April” by The Jordan Mobley Jam Band] That’s “April” from The Jordan Mobley Jam Band on WUFT Amplified, and ahead of that was “Tacoma.” Both tracks from their 2025 EP entitled Release and “New York” started things off.

You said before that you had written that because you had lived in New York.

Did you also live in Tacoma?

I did.

Or was that written about your truck?

Yeah so Tacoma was written for the city of Tacoma, completely 180 of Gainesville.

It's - So in Washington state, there's a place called the Puget Sound.

And it's just this huge lake, but it's kind of an ocean, but not really.

But yeah, so I lived in Tacoma and they had these big bridges, lots of water.

Very, very like water lifestyle.

And I love that.

It was so refreshing to have a bad day at work and then drive home and see all the good things.

So I had to write a song about it.

Plus, you can believe me when I tell you Seattle has the best coffee in the United States, bar none.

I'll stand by that.

So, yeah, I love Tacoma.

It was a great place.

And I met some really good musicians, too, out there.

So yeah.

So was - You get your inspirations for your songs from real life?

I mean from - Yeah, yeah.

That is generally where I tend to go.

When I was a kid, I wasn't very verbal, but I liked the fact that I could play and be able to express myself.

It took some time, you know, practice and learning what instruments do, and how they can serve you because ultimately, we're supposed to serve music I feel.

But, yeah, I love writing about things that have happened to me.

It's a way of coping.

It's a way of being able to deal with the situation, or just being able to reminisce too.

That’s really ideal.

I know, like, a lot of love songs tend to have that theme where they write about a particular person and then every time that person hears that song, that was an immediate memory.

So I think it's a really big privilege to have music on our side and just be able to encapsulate time that way.

I think that's really neat.

So do you think about lyrics when you're writing instrumental music or is it just you don't have a singer so you don't write lyrics or how does that process work?

I have not necessarily written for singers.

Like I said, when I was young, I wasn't very verbal.

I just was a very quiet kid.

And my dad used to have me - He is a pastor and the only thing we could listen to was gospel music, like black gospel music, John P. Kee, Marvin Sapp, Fred Hammond, all that stuff, and jazz.

And I got really tired of hearing the same things over and over again so I would turn on smooth jazz 100.9 on WXJZ smooth jazz 100.9.

And I got a lot of my influence just from listening to the radio and, yeah, so I feel like being able to write things that aren't lyrical and still be able to get a point across is such a unique artform.

I give huge props to everybody in this band because I'm on drums, not necessarily a melodic instrument, but they're able to shred through solos and get their point across clearly.

And to be able to decipher that just takes time too and listening, which is like a huge part of practice.

So, yeah, that's kind of my point of view on that.

All right.

Where can folks learn more about you and the band and your plans and appearances?

Absolutely.

I do a lot of stuff on social media, @jmobleymusic0.

And, we've got some stuff coming up on the horizon.

Still new songs that I haven't even told the band about yet that we're going to end up recording and, yeah, we're all over town just looking to serve the people, with good sound.

So that's our goal here.

And have fun, ultimately.

I don't feel like any of these guys would be here if it wasn't fun.

And rightfully so.

But yeah, we have a great time.

Us on stage is awesome.

Huge shout out to everybody who's helped us along the way, and we're just happy to be here.

I know I am, at least.

I'm happy to have you here too.

Absolutely.

We have time to serve up one more, the title track to their 2025 six-song EP.

This is “Release” from The Jordan Mobley Jam Band on WUFT Amplified.

[“Release” by The Jordan Mobley Jam Band] That's “Release” from The Jordan Mobley Jam Band on WUFT Amplified.

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I'm Glenn Richards, thank you to The Jordan Mobley Jam Band for being here with us today.

Thank you for checking us out.

We’ll see you next time.