
Joel Baer
Chicago-based jazz drummer and co-leader of the Blueshift Big Band, which recorded the Persona 30th Anniversary Jazz Album with Atlus and iam8bit.
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Sep 9, 2026
Persona 30th Anniversary Jazz Album Interview Feat. Blue Shift Big Band - SMTN Link 404
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Spencer PressleyHOST
And then that's been the extra funny thing with something like persona is even though this is like a JRPG series and has been for 30 years with it, it is one of those things of like, what other RPG series do you know with multiple, uh, rhythm game spinoffs that barely even scratched the surface of the discography.

Joel BaerGUEST
Um, you know, to your, you, you mentioned earlier that like you appreciated that we weren't doing kind of like lounge jazz versions of, of not just persona tunes, but also the video game tunes at large.

Joel BaerGUEST
And I think for blue shifts, one of the things that, that we wanted to do was we wanted big band to be a kind of ensemble, not like a, an era of music, you know, it's not, it's not hearkening back to the 1930s or forties all the time.
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Spencer PressleyHOST
I Kind of moving a little bit off of the Persona album with it and getting into a bit more about you guys personally for it, what was your guys' sort of history with Persona as a series, whether it have been the music, playing the games, and feel free to, like, if there's any kind of, like, ties into either other similar genres that you were able to kind of bring with you into the process of helping make the album or just into your creative process overall