I felt like unless I went out there and couldn't make any good noises, we were going to be in a good shape.
My wonderful trio-Ryan Cross, Brandon Coleman, and Gene Coye-was playing, and I just saw the kinetic exchange between them and the audience. My band is so ridiculous that I kind of thought we'd probably won before I came onstage. I competed against a couple of very talented outfits, and we were fortunate enough to win. I recorded an EP, and it did very well for an EP-I had no label, no management, and no real anything, so I just did everything on my own-was called, Coming Home and had been sent in and noticed, and I became one of the finalists for that. When he passed, his widow, Tracy Niles, created the Chuck Niles award and competition, which was held at the Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival. Chuck Niles was a very beloved voice of jazz on KJazz out here on the West Coast, forever. JT: The Niles Award came at a time in my career when I really had the pedal to the metal, and I really wanted to step everything up to the next level of exposure. And during the concert break, a short SNL "backstage" skit featuring Rachel Dratch introduced MMJ to itself cloned in retro-goofy outfits which the band appeared in when it returned to the stage. DeMille cast of lady background singers-was a showstopper, and following Erykah's performance, it helped amp the show to an even higher energy level, as if that were possible. But "Holdin' On To Black Metal"-with its Cecil B. Friends showed up, such as Erykah Badu who, of course, sang on "Tyrone" among others, and Daniel Martin Moore and cellist Ben Sollee who sang on "Wonderful (The Way I Feel)." Also dropping by was Louisville's mayor Greg Fischer to announce the online winning song, "Steam Engine," which turned out to be one of the strongest performances of the night. However, this sum was way bigger than its parts in that the show, as a whole, delivered more than any previous concert by MMJ, except, possibly, its four-hour Bonaroo outing. Basically, the night was a distillation of Z, Evil Urges, and a complete reading of their newest album, Circuital, released the day of the concert.
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