David Benoit

[laughs] Oh, cool

... and David Benoit.

Uh-huh.

And, um, you know, there's just been, there was so many times that I got to be around him and, and, um, uh, and learn from him.

Compositionally, the phrasing as to how she sings, the control, the, like, it's just...

And this, this orchestra music that's on Vespertine, on Homogenic, um, that, it's just some of the best writing I've ever heard, and it's, and it, it, it's like, um, def- for me, like, it's a big defining p- I mean, the reasons why I like to work with orchestras and, and write with that, um, with a symphony as an instrument, it's like, you know, it's just such a cool, incredible, dynamic, colorful instrument as a whole to play with.

But growing up, I was, I would go see Dave, uh, David Benoit do shows with San Francisco Symphony and things like that, and I would just be like, "Whoa, this is just like, this combination of...

That texture is so incredible," and all of that.

year, I don't think people understand how prolific the last album was and all the amazing people that we had on it.

We had Eric Clapton, Sting, Dave Grusin, Art Garfunkel, Jimmy Webb, Graham Nash, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, David Pak, Jerry Beckley, and Dewey Bunnell of the band America, David Benoit, Marilyn Martin, Leah Kunkel, and many more.

We literally called everybody within a six-month time frame, said, you guys available? And they're like, yeah.

And some were like, no, but we'll do it in our hotel room on the road.

But what it's been able to do for the downtown community, you don't realize it when you're doing it day in, day out.

But when you take a step back and look at kind of our roster, I mean, last week we had David Benoit come and play for our members of 46 people.

and he loved it he had a great time and so just to see these icons coming through our little town and enjoying themselves and it's kind of bringing back I know I shared a little bit with you off air of some of the artists we're going to be working with next year in Los Angeles and a lot of these big artists that play these arenas thank you very much and sold out theaters of thousands of people forget how much they like to play for an audience of 40 people that are just stoked for them to be there and so we're excited to curate that

how much of it is they want to play on that instrument