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Joel Baer

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.

Sep 9, 2026

51:38
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.
51:59
Yeah.
52:00
Yeah, exactly.
52:01
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.
52:14
And also you were talking about the arrangements.
52:17
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.
52:38
Although we do that.

10 MINS LATER

62:38
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

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