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John Pizzarelli

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first: 2015-05-29
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“This has definitely got miles on. I have a case made by a gentleman named Jeff Hoffy, just out of Chicago. And I just always take a picture of it. I say, here's the guitar going on, you know. And it always survives. That's the one thing that's changed to most is they finally can make a case that will protect these guitars. This one I've just thrown around so much. It's not the case, it's the guitar player. So here is I got rhythm.”
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“Made my bill mole from Springfield, Missouri This is like my favorite one he's made. There's a new one that I'm playing now.”
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“Just the idea of sanding off the rough edges and knowing, oh, I see, you know, where all the economy in it was. You don't have to do too much.”
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“Called All of Me on RCA, which was a big deal for me. I really thought that I had my handle on it. I mean, I really thought I was. I really felt confident about it, but I realized. Actually, when I made my first, I didn't really sing well. I don't think that singing got any better. I really took a while to get good at it. Whereas I thought at the very beginning, I thought, well, it's really good. And then I go back and listen to it. I go, boy, oh boy, I'm lucky to still be standing here, you know. So it was interesting that Tristan. I really thought I knew a lot at the beginning, but I didn't really know that much. I really learned a lot as I went along and I realized how much the performing aspect of it was.”
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“I think the thing is The thing that I know You know, I think that I thought I knew everything when I was starting out. Like when I made my first record.”
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“It's really interesting. I mean, I'm very, I love that because of who I am, I can go backstage at most places at jazz concerts anyway. But I mean. It's nice. I like to make myself available because it's important to keep it all going.”
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“Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes it's just a bunch of people, the Tilla Center's, it was wild. It was just this long line of people. And I was just amazed at that people were that patient about it. But I say, listen, I'm not going to go anywhere. So if you're patient, I'm patient. I know it's important to them. I would love to go to a Pat Mathaney concert and see Pat Mathaney afterwards. You know, I would say, for sure. You know, that kind of thing.”
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“They've been here for a long time. Is this their first time? It's really, I do my own little thing. I mean, I don't write down what it is, but it's interesting to see who's coming.”
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“It started, it's been whenever we could get the records there, we do it. I mean, I've been saying, you know, for the most part, that's the way to meet the people who are coming to hear you. And then, you know, you'll meet like at the Tilla Center, you meet people say, you know, 20 years ago it was me, and now I'm bringing my kids. Or, you know, I've decided, I knew my parents would like this, so I brought them here and they were like, yeah, we couldn't believe how good this was. It's really sweet. So I like to see what's going on. Who's coming to these concerts? How old are they? How young are they?”
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“Yeah, you know, but I mean, you can get good headphones, but like nobody sits in their room, it seems to me, and puts on their stereo and goes, okay, music. I went to Radio Shack. I had 12 inch speakers, bookshelf speakers. They were so great to listen to. It's just the way people listen. What do they listen on? Do they download immediately to a device? They're rarely buying actual product anymore. So that's the weird thing too, is that I am lucky because my people who come to my gigs want to get something at the end. They'll buy the CD so you'll sign it and take it home. Oh, I got something, you know.”
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“I think there's the fact that Funny, my friend the other day set up his stereo in his room because his son moved out finally, you know, one of those things. And he said, you know what? Bookshelf speakers, and I had my CD player and an amplifier and turned it on, and I was like, oh my God, music in the room, you know, everybody listens to what headphones. It's so weird how people listen, you know, and they don't.”
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“I feel that that's always, you know, you can practice all you want in the room and you're going to go, I sound so good today, you know, playing in my living room. But the second you get in front of somebody and your hand starts to sweat a little bit and you drop your pick and everybody's looking at you. I think that it's just about trying to find ways to get out there and play, find groups to play with, or if you're a guitarist or piano player, solo gigs, whatever. You know, it's very difficult to play a solo gig for four hours. So, you know, you've got to build a repertoire and that's all those things are things that I did anyway. I thought they were very useful. And by the time I was ready to step into my own thing, I felt a little more comfortable because I had been doing it already for a long time.”
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“Well, they've probably studied since high school what kind of music they like because they can do that now. Much discover what you're into at such an earlier age, I think. So I think the thing is to get out and play, is to find places to play where you can spend a couple hours in a room. Because the more you play in front of people,”
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“I like to, you know, I'm always working on the next thing, so I'm sometimes looking at music or listening to what I just recorded and seeing what needs to be done on those things. So there's a lot of business that gets done during the day sometimes. And sometimes I just sit in a room and I can watch Sports Center until the cows come home. Really? That'll be about that.”
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“Let's see. That's a very good question. I do try to read a, I read a cooking book was the last book I read by the woman who owns Prune. Her name's Gabrielle Hamilton. Okay. So I like to, and I read about how she got into cooking because I really am interested in”
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“And that was the idea. That's what jazz records are. You know, if you took all of me, you wouldn't do somebody else's record of all of me, or it had to be you or something. You would, you know, you would say, here's my version of it.”
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“We actually try to homage things in and out inside little hints that we know. The hard thing for me was not singing like the Beatles sang. Right.”
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“The happy ending for me was when I worked with Paul McCartney the first day he walked into the studio. They said, Paul McCartney jump at Sarelli. And he said, you made a Beatles CD. And I said, yes, I did. And he said, it's very good.”
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“I have no idea. But, you know, it has lasted. It's the most love-hated record that I have out there. Really? But, you know, the...”
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“It's like enough already, yeah. Right. Well, you know, and the thing is that you're trying to get the people who listen to Neil Young or who are interested in that and who go do the same thing that they did with the Ronstadt record for you. It's like they go, oh, well, that was sort of interesting that you put a jazz song, say with, I feel fine, we put a little thing up front of the sidewinder, which is a Lee Morgan cut. Right. Then they go, oh, well, maybe they're going to discover something else. I was really felt that way about the Beatle record. I thought the Beatle record, because we were mixing in Woody Herman into the Woody Herman band. We were putting the Basy band sound. We had orchestra things. I really thought we were presenting to Beatles in a completely new way.”
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“And people go nuts, you know, it was written in the 30s. That's the other thing, too, that's important about, I think, the presentation that you got to, you know, if you lead them in the right directions, it doesn't matter what songs you're doing and when they were written. But if you let them know where you're headed, I think that's the most important thing. I think if you tell them, here's where we're going. Trust me. And eventually they'll say, oh, well, that harvest moon thing was really good. Oh, that's a Neil Young song. Well, that was all right. Sort of like that one. So that's good. You know, you got to let them know because there are dyed in the wool. A songbook people, you know, I don't like anything written after 1964. Okay, well, try this one. And, you know, and you hope that you can lead them in the right direction.”
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“Has been pushing. And there's books of, well, I made the thing last year, so I just put it out, and it's been fun to tour around, you know. So it's like, well, that'll work. That'll play for a while.”
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“And you set them up, and all of a sudden, people, oh, that's great. I just shake my head. I go, well, okay, thank God for that. It's been around.”
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“Maybe it's just the idea that there's enough Oddball materials, I call it, the weird, you know, the outside of the lines things, as well as the hits that people go, oh, I love Skylark. I love I thought about you. And then you say, well, what's this I got out of bed on the right side? What's this other one that you slew foot? Where's that from?”
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“Where was this record years ago? I did a record of Rogers, Richard Rogers that wasn't as popular as this. It's just amazing.”
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“Right. Actually, you know what's surprising is this Johnny Mercer thing. I literally went into Birdland last year and recorded 20 Johnny Mercer songs, Don Sebesky Arrangements, Four Horns, Rhythm Section. And I put it out myself. I just said I needed something to get me to the next record. But I said, this is a good little piece of business. And song after song absolutely kills. I mean, I was sort of like...”
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“So you would play them live and you'd say, okay, that one didn't seem to go over so well, but everybody seemed to like the lush life and the Tom Waits thing. So we keep that one in. So you'd start like when you really start to go places and think you're going to pick these five from that record. Sometimes some people don't like one in particular. I try to do all of them and then see what happens. So it does change from time to time, and then you keep the good ones in, and then you can hope that you're going to add other ones along the way.”
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“There was one, there was a Beatles song on there called I Feel Fine. And then we did a Tom Wait song into a Ellington song. We did Drunk on the Moon. Into Lush Life and Out Back to Drunk on the Moon”
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“Yeah, I mean, I think, well, you know, when you're promoting a record in particular, like if we promote a record that was one called Double Exposure, where we ended up doing songs like Harvest, Harvest Moon, Free Man of Paris”
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“If dreams come true, yeah. There's a lot of songs on that one. That's one of those CD things. We need 20 more minutes. If dreams come true, it's the arrangement that he did with Peggy Lee. So there are a couple like that that I picked out and then a couple of new ones too. So, you know, that's the thing. You got so many choices with George. You know, he was just great.”
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“I don't know what that means. Well, and the whole thing about the sound of that, the way the piano and the vibraphone and the guitar played together was a very unique sound, and lullaby a bird lamb being his big hit. I chose, be careful it's my heart, because that was from a record we had in the house of the shearing group, so we homaged that. And then the other one was...”
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“Said, you know, there's he has the list of songs that Sinatra has never recorded. There's no record of wonderful. There's no, the more I see you. So he's like, why did not those songs? Where were they?”
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“Well, he didn't like, he's not a Gordon Jenkins fan, and Gordon Jenkins wrote all that music for that. And so he was sort of like, I haven't go. I want to hear more of the Jerome Kern. Because Jonathan still...”
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“Yeah, probably last week. You can find these people now. They see they are the ones. Heard those records and are doing this. And we try to cross it, you know, and the same thing how you can even get to, believe it or not, you can get to Joni Mitchell from Annie Ross because Lambert Hendrickson Ross was a direct influence on Joni Mitchell. So these things all cross-pollinate. And that's why it's so fun about the show is that it was what you're talking about. How Linda Ronstadt got you to Sarah Vaughan is the same way how Ella Fitzgerald got you to Jane Monheit.”
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“But it's the beauty of the record. It's the other thing is that Linda Ronstadt knew that Nelson Riddle was important and she had to make records with him. And so the fact that those three records got you to those 16 is the why the thing works. You know, it's the other thing about our radio program, Radio Deluxe, is that You can play Sinatra and you can play Nat Cole, Louis Armstrong, and Elephant Fitzgerald and say, now these people, you can go to Kurt Alling or Tierney Sutton or Stacy Kent or Curtis Steigers. You just had...”
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“I did an entire summer with him in 1980. And it was, you know, I knew seven songs for a four-hour gig. And he would just pound melodies out at me and go, you don't know this, you know, under his breath, and I'm wearing Tuckses. Oh, I know, yeah. And I'm just trying to find chords. It was ear training every night. Every night.”
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“The things that we run into, you know, these things happen, you know, the gigs with Bucky at the Pierre when I was first 20 years old.”
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“The person in the place said, Go play, you know, you can play it. Okay, so he stepped over the ropes as he stepped over the ropes and got up. There was this thing. It said step away from the piano. And the lights are flashing. Get away from the piano. And they said, don't worry, it goes away. He said, okay, so he sat down at the piano and he went. And he started to play this beautiful stride version of they can't take that away from me. And we always laugh because then we were hoping the voice would say, Do you know I got rhythm? It was just so great”
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“Probably more than that. Where we went to the thing, the Smithsonian, and they said, that's Gershwin's piano. And why don't you play it? And so Ray stepped over the ropes.”
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“There's several different versions, and I would add these things, would read things, find things that were funny of interest that made interest to me that I could throw into a show that would, I just love that part of the thing because I think people go, well, I not only just heard the songs, I didn't hear you say, here's another great song. You know, this is a great song. Here's another great song. Didn't want to sound like that. I wanted to say, you know what's interesting about this song is this, you know?”
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“I think it was, I always like that version of it. I mean, actually, I was a fan of, it started with the early Cosby records, and then it went to the George Carlin records, and then I used to watch Carson all the time. And I used to love these monologues and these little stories that saturated the programs. And I like the idea of trying to set up songs or, you know, of do this little, these bits that settled people in a little bit, gave them an idea of what was going on and maybe it was a joke or maybe it was just a fact that was well presented that made people go, oh, well, then I really want to hear what's going on now. Now I can hear, oh, that's what that was, or that's where that came from. How was that song written? That's an interesting thing. So the more I hung around people like Jonathan Schwartz, who's on the radio here in New York, I would try and pay attention or I would give them a call and say, you know, you kept talking about that.”
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“My background music. You know, that's the thing. We talk about it. It's one of those things where we haven't made a dime on it. We do it all at home. And every time we say, you know, we have to do this show again. We got to set up the stuff, you know, because we're just knuckleheads. But people tell us these stories. We were talking about it just today where somebody will say, you know, I take my, I go visit my mother in this home. And then on Sunday nights I leave or they, you know, I say goodbye and I coincides with you being on the radio here in Illinois. And that two-hour drive back is Radio Deluxe. And I just think, oh, so changes my attitude after what I had to do, you know. And we just get these letters and go, well, we call it the broke back radio program. We can't quit it. It's just crazy.”
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“About 40 stations, and it's on what they call, is it MixCloud? MixCloud.com. You can punch in Radio Deluxe and hear the show. And there's several past shows there too. So it just was something where they wanted to bottle what it was that my wife and I were doing. We started doing it at Feinstein's in our nightclub act. You know, she'd say, hello, I'd say hello. People would laugh and say, that's great. So we, they. And they've talked to some people, and then next thing you know, I'm behind a mic going from Hayatob Lexington Avenue, you're in the deluxe living room. It's Rado Deluxe. How are you doing, Jessica? And she'd talk and then say, well, you know, that reminds me of that Frank Sinatra record. Let's play it now. And so...”
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“Right. And sometimes some would say, Can I borrow your chart about, yeah, sure, I'll let my friend borrow to play with a college band or something like that. But mostly it's all work for hire. So like when you make a record, you want to spend, you really want to make sure you get greater range because they're going to follow you around for 25 years.”
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“Or is it a one off? John Clayton has sold some of those charts, like nice and easy. I know that he's made some of them available, which is fine. He's made them available to people to buy. So I think one or two of those charts he's put out there. My things I get mostly like the Don Sebeski things are things that work for hire, I get them. I keep them. So you own them?”
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“You know, that's the thing. So, you know, when you get 2,300 people in a room to hear Sinatra music and you have the best guys in New York, that's how you make your career. I've spent a lot of money putting those, getting those arrangements together. I have so many arrangements written by Don Sebeski or John Clayton, really good arranged, solid arrangements. So when you go play with the Boston Pops or you got to play with the New York, that's where your investment is. So people go, wow, that was really great. I wonder if he can do a Gershwin show because that Rogers show was fantastic. Let's get him back next year. You know, you spend investment.”
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“Absolutely. Hence why those sales were so good. I mean, I think there's like Sinatra and Basanova are, you know, they're gold, as they say. It's gold, Jerry. But that's the thing. I've had a couple of, and then that coal records work very well for me so. But now. It's a different ballgame, and it's mostly about getting out to perform. That's the one thing they can't change is going to download.”
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“Yeah, they will say, well, does he have a new album out? We can come back if he has a new album out. And so it really isn't about, I mean, for me, I think the most records of one record might either Bossanova or the Sinatra record was up around between 40 and 50,000. That's a lot of records for me.”
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“Well, I think the one thing that works for me, since I'm not someone, record sales don't generate what I do, which is, you know, I make my records so that they're almost like calling cards. You can say, he's got a new record coming out, he'll come promote it at your club. And they end, having done this now for 25 years, they know what I'm going to do. My thing is about live performance.”
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“So it worked out just right, and the whole thing was fantastic. It was funny once we closed opening for Rosemary Clooney, we closed with sing, sing, sing with the big band. And as I walked up, she was applauding. She was like, ha, that was really terrific. You'll never offer me again. So, you know, she was almost kidding.”
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