What in the world could Josey Records, The Ben and Skin Show and a young career jazz musician living in Los Angeles possibly have in common?
— they had a vision. They wanted to start a band and make a record based on a simple feeling.
With the financial help of the Dallas Mavericks and Universal Music Group, artists such as Leon Bridges, Keite Young and the Grammy-nominated Black Pumas — among other hip-hop, soul, psych and jazz artists with a shared commitment to racial equity — collaborated on an album. Gerl’s contribution, a song called"Restoration," turned out so well that Gerl asked if he could use it on his solo record, leading to a record deal with Eastwood Music and sparking the potential collaboration.
“Luke and Skin had the concept already and I composed the music, put the band together and really saw the project as paying tribute to a particular era,” says Gerl. "We wanted to get a group of musicians together that understood ... they were younger guys, young lions, but understood that old sound and those old compositions and you know, kind of wanted to emulate that time period," Wade says."So it wasn't just the compositions and the players, we actually recorded on an old Wally Heider mixing board.
“My musical interests are very diverse, and I’ve been making different kinds of music over the years," he says."Deep Ellum is near my heart as I played my first gig at The Curtain Club when I was 13.”
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