"The Black Man Talking Emotions Podcast" Starring Dom L'Amour
"The Black Man Talking Emotions Podcast" Starring Dom L'Amour
The JB Jazz Jam Experience
Ever wondered what musicians do when they're freed from the constraints of playing songs exactly as recorded? Step into the electric atmosphere of Atl's JB Jazz Jam with host Dom L’Amour as he pulls back the curtain on this monthly musical playground.
The wedding band singer who must perform "Fly Me to the Moon" exactly like Sinatra night after night finally gets to break the mold, experiment, and create something uniquely his own. This episode captures the raw energy, spontaneity, and pure joy that erupts when talented musicians gather to play without boundaries or expectations.
Through a series of live recordings from the jam sessions, listeners experience stunning reinterpretations of classics like "Killing Me Softly," "Summertime," and "I've Got You Under My Skin." Each performance showcases not just technical skill but the conversational nature of jazz—musicians responding to each other in real-time, creating something that could only happen in that specific moment with those specific players.
Beyond the music itself, JB (the namesake of the jam) delivers a powerful mini-lecture on the African American origins of virtually all American musical forms—illustrating how spirituals born in slavery evolved into blues, jazz, gospel, and eventually rock and roll. This historical context reminds us that these jam sessions aren't merely entertainment but part of a profound cultural tradition with deep historical significance.
The episode concludes with something special—a preview of Dom's upcoming album featuring an original composition called "I Will Keep My Smile," a song about self-empowerment and choosing positivity even during life's challenges. It's a fitting conclusion that shows how artists honor tradition while creating new works that speak to contemporary experiences.
Join us for this musical journey and discover why these creative spaces are so vital for artists. Subscribe now, share with friends who appreciate good music, and visit domlamour.com to learn more about Dom's diverse musical projects.
Featuring:Dom L’Amour on vocals, Bovell on vocals, Johnathan Blanchard aka JB on vocals, Leslie Jones on sax, Scott Box on Sax, Madiac Max on Keys, Zach Smith on Drums, Britton Wright on bass, Born Foster on trumpet , Jerry on Guitar
Opening and Closing Theme song: Produced by Dom L'Amour
Transition Music from Mad Chops Vol. 1 and Mad Chops Vol. 2 by Mad Keys and from Piano Soul Vol.1(Loop Pack) by The Modern Producers Team
Killing Me Softly by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel and covered by Dom L’Amour with Leslie Jones on Sax.
Wade in The Water A spiritual covered by Johnathan (JB) Blanchard.
Summertime from the musical “Porgy and Bess” music by George Gershwin and The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward. Covered by Dom L’Amour with Jerry on guitar.
So What by Miles Davis Covered by Born Foster.
Nature Boy written by eden ahbez as a tribute to Bill Pester. Covered by Bovell.
Girl From Impanema by music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes, with English lyrics written later by Norman Gimbel. covered by
ladies and gentlemen and anyone else who is here, my name is dom lamore and you are listening to the black man talking emotions podcast. Thank you so much for checking us out. I wanted to do something different this week. I'll try to keep it different. You know I don't want to always be the same way and I'm enjoying the summer. I just got back from Savannah and I've been able to hang with some friends. I got some more friends coming in town. I should be in California really soon to see some family and I have really been enjoying putting together these different type of episodes where I get to bring you more into my life.
Speaker 1:So my day to day has been pretty busy and I've been keeping up with the house, of course, and taking care of the dog and making sure that everything's in place here, but then also going out to sing at different spots, like 10 ATL and chairs upstairs and doing my wedding gigs every weekend and the chairs upstairs and doing my wedding gigs every weekend. So something else that I do is I host a jam session in Atlanta called the JB Jazz Jam. It's something that I haven't really put on. The podcast is some of that content. So I wanted to go ahead and share what it kind of feels like to come to the JB Jazz Jam and some of the incredible artists that I get to work with and some of the music that we make together, and so we're going to go through Journey a couple of performances. I've been doing this for almost six months now, every month first Friday of the month. It's really really a thrill and it's exciting to get on stage and I don't view it as like practice, but you get to work on what you've practiced. If that makes sense, I'll be singing at home or putting together ideas for shows, and it's a great workshop for that in front of an audience, whenever I want to sing a song but you know, in most situations, especially with the wedding band, if I sing, fly me to the moon, I have to sing it the way Frank Sinatra sang it. They don't allow me to have fun or do something different or create something unique. And with the jam I get to take time to sing those songs that I love, but differently Make it a bossa nova, do a samba, do something different and sing it higher, sing it lower. You know, it's always fun to see what you can do in the moment and with these jams I get that opportunity with a lot of other incredible artists to really just play, to get on stage to see what I'm capable of doing, so that when I go and do my wedding gigs or I go perform other gigs that I put together, I'm able to bring that to it. I'm able to bring that creativity, that exciting improv that you only get when you are on the spot singing stuff that you enjoy.
Speaker 1:So here are a couple of tunes. You're going to get some artists like Bovel. You're going to get JB from JB's Record Lounge singing a couple of tunes. You're going to get me. You're going to get my guy, scott Box, born Foster. We got a whole bunch of great artists on this and I really hope you enjoy the vibes and this kind of change of pace. You just get to hear some music today. You get to hear some people doing what we do, and that's what it's all about. So much love to y'all and thank y'all for hanging with me and I hope you enjoy the show.
Speaker 2:I heard he said a good song.
Speaker 3:I heard he had a spot, and so I came To see him and listen for a while. I prayed that he Would finish, but he just kept right all night, strumming my pain with my fingers, saving my life with his words Killing me softly With his song, killing me softly. With the song telling my whole life. With his words he led me softly.
Speaker 2:With his song of love he sang as if he knew me.
Speaker 3:In all that darkness, man.
Speaker 2:I felt he looked right through me Stole my heart. I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on Strumming my vein with his finger Singing my life with this song killing me softly with his song killing me softly with his song, telling my whole life His words killing me softly no-transcript.
Speaker 4:I specialize in American music, and what I mean by that is that's what I'm gonna be trying the music that was. Well, let's just make this short when a slave African was kidnapped and brought to this country's prisons of war. Tell the history they were very young and they knew about as much as a teenager would know, or someone that was young enough and able-bodied enough to make the trip in the bowels of a ship. When they arrived here, they used what they remembered to create coded language. Their language was to become what was known as the spiritual coming out of the field. Songs, and now the spiritual came, all forms of what we know as american music, and I mean music that was created on this land after colonization. Your blues, your country and your gospel come from these spirituals.
Speaker 4:And eventually that blues began to travel, and as it traveled west into New Orleans, it got a little bit more sophisticated. They had some horns. They called it jazz. That jazz worked its way up the river and it became electrified. The blues, jazz, the blues, the jazz eventually found itself all over the Midwest, and by this time radio stations and record labels got together and they decided that they were going to market the blues to a wider, larger audience, so they changed the name. Market the blues to a wider, larger audience, so they changed the name of the blues to rock and roll.
Speaker 4:How many are for me, with people like um the late great mr elvis, president, king of the king of rock and roll? How many you are familiar with who is known as the father of rock and roll, none other than mr ike turn Turner, mm-hmm, east, st Louis? Yeah, before Elvis and before Ike, back in 1922, a young lady by the name of Trixie Smith, who was a singer and also a schoolteacher here in Atlanta, georgia, was the first person to sing the song with the phrase rock and roll in it Mm-hmm. She was signed to a record label called Black Swan Records. Black Swan Records was operated by WC Handy and WB Du Bois.
Speaker 4:I'm doing spiritual for y'all, that's all right.
Speaker 3:That's all right. More of the story. Make them laugh. He's blue-de-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Rain in the water, rain in the water, children, rain in the water. Then I'm gonna dribble in water. Come on and say rain in the water. I'm gonna wait in the water till the rain. Rain in the water, then I'm gonna dribble in water. I said, I said let's go, all dressed in white. I said I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. I said let's go. Thank you, waitin' at the waitin' at the waitin' at the water, I'm layin' out on the road, on the road, on the road, thank you. I'm gonna be a lonely, lonely, lonely. I'm gonna live in that lonely, lonely. Hey, baby in the water, I'm gonna wave in the water. Water, water, lady, lady, I'm gonna live in that. Lonely, lonely, lonely. I'm going to the water. Come on, come on.
Speaker 4:Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Sometimes I feel, Mama, where did you go? Motherless child, I said long way from the one, two, three. Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone. Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone.
Speaker 3:Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone, all alone, waiting for someone to be Thank you. I said let's go to the water. No, no, let's go to the trouble of the water. Let's go to the trouble of the water. Let's go to do that. Thank you, down.
Speaker 2:It's summer, darling, and the living's easy. Fish is jumping and the cotton is high. Your daddy's rich and your ma is good looking. So, hush little baby, don't you cry. One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing, you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky, but in that morning there's nothing gonna harm you. With daddy and mommy Standing by, I say summertime.
Speaker 3:And the living is easy. Fish are jumping. The cotton is so high. Your daddy's rich baby.
Speaker 2:Your mommy's good looking, so hush pretty baby.
Speaker 3:Don't you cry One of these mornings?
Speaker 2:You're gonna rise up singing, you're gonna spread your wings, then you'll take to the sky. And when you find a man, he's gonna look up and down, but you know Daddy and Mommy is always gonna be around.
Speaker 3:Yes, baby Summertime Summertime, summertime, summertime Da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da La, la, la, la la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la la.
Speaker 2:Oh, your daddy and mommy's always gonna be fine. They always gonna be fine, daddy and mommy's always fine.
Speaker 3:Da da da da Si do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. Summertime, summertime, summertime, baby Summertime yeah, give it up to them y'all.
Speaker 2:Come on y'all. Yeah, free stuff, it's always fun. I'm Jerry. Give it up to Jerry y'all. This is always fun. What's your name? I'm Jerry, give it up to Jerry, y'all. Woo, yeah, yeah, ready. There you go, let's go.
Speaker 3:Thank you, thank you, I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a break. Yeah, hey, whoa, where you at. Thank you, guitar solo. Thank you, I like that. Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you. So come on, come on, baby, thank you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 3:There was a boy, a very strange Chanting. They say One day, very far, very far Over land, very far Over land and sea, I'll let the sun Shine, a little shy and sad about, but very wise would he. And then one day, a magic day he passed, and while we smoke, a Many fools and kings, this, he said to me the greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return. Thank you, oh. Let them see A little child Inside of my Bare eyes. Oh, let them see. And then, one day, magic played fast, by the way, while we spoke of anything, only this he said to me the greatest thing you'll ever learn, just to let me be loved and be loved again. He loves me, he cares. Thank you, thank you and you and you, and you, and you and you and you. There was a boy, a very strange and dangerous boy, they say he wanted to marry before a very far woman left him.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. The magic day passed right away, and while he spoke of many things, of fools and kings, of this, he said to me the greatest thing You'll ever lose Is just to love, just to love, Just to love, just to love, just to love, just to love, just to love, just to, just to love, Just to, just to, just to love, just to love, just to love. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I think it's perfect. It's a little comfy. That's pretty fun. One more time, Thank you. That's good. That's good. Thank you, I'll keep going. When she walks she's like a summer. That's sweet, so smooth and sweet, so gentle. And when she passes each one she passes, goes. But I watch her so sadly. How can I tell her I love?
Speaker 3:her. Yes, I would give my heart gladly. But each day she walks to the sea. She looks straight at it, not at me. Tall, tall, young, lovely little girl From west to heaven for a walk in. When she passes. I smile but she does not see. Thank you ¶¶. ¶¶. Talk to your lovely girl from west in Leather Goose. When she passes I smile, but she does not see when she passes she's like a summer night Sweet, so smooth and sweet so gentle.
Speaker 2:And when she passes, all I say is baby, like a summer that swings so smooth and sways so gently. And when she passes, all I say is baby.
Speaker 3:But I watch her so sadly.
Speaker 2:How can I tell her I love her? How?
Speaker 3:can I tell her I love her? Yes, I would give my heart gladly, but each day when she walks to the sea, she looks straight ahead, not at me.
Speaker 2:Don't tell ya she's so sweet, I'm so free. When she passes, I smile, but she does not see. She does not see, she does not see, she does not feel happy with me.
Speaker 3:She does not see, she does not want to. She does not see, she does not want to. She does not see, she does want me.
Speaker 2:But I want her All.
Speaker 3:I see, is her. She does not want me, she doesn't see me, she won't see me, she can't see me. She's stuck with me. She don't want me, she goes all for me. I don't know what to say. She don't see me, she don't love me, she won't come to me, she don't believe in me, she can't see me no-transcript.
Speaker 2:I've got you deep in the heart of me, so deep in my heart that you're really a part of me. I've got you under my skin. I tried so not to get there. I said to myself this affair won't go so well, but how can I try to resist when, baby, you know so well, I got you under my skin? I'd sacrifice anything for what might For the sake of having an ear. In spite of a warming voice Comes in the night and repeats and repeats in my ear. Don't you know you're a fool. You never can win. Use your mentality. Wake up to reality. Anytime that I do this, the thought of you makes me stop before I begin. I got you under my skin. Guitar solo. Thank you, it's a jam. Right, let me hear you. Now Come on.
Speaker 3:Come on, thank you. Come on, max, thank you. I say. I've got you under my skin, I've got you deep in the heart of me so deep in my heart that you're really a part of me. I've got you under my skin, my skin, my skin. I said I'm trying so not to be a hit. I said to myself this stuff can never go well, but how do I try to use this? But, baby, you know so well, I got you under my skin.
Speaker 2:I sacrifice anything for one night for the sake of having a meal in spite of the warm and moist of midnight, and every day we be lying.
Speaker 3:Don't you know you never came away. Use your mentality, Wake up to reality. Everybody's having an idea. The thought of you makes me stop. Oh, I mean it. I've got you under my. I've got you under my. I've got you under my skin.
Speaker 1:I really appreciate y'all if you made it to this part of the show. That means you've been hanging with us throughout the whole time. You've been enjoying it, or at least just trying to get through it and say that you did it and thank you for that. I appreciate it. With that being said, I always like to reward people who actually, you know, check me out and listen to what I'm doing and and pay attention to the content. So here is a sneak preview of the next album.
Speaker 1:This song is something I performed live at the dixie tavern up in whatever part of atlanta it's up north. I have been told so much about this venue and how it's kind of broken. Different artists and my boy, mattyx, put together a little show. He wanted me to sing some tunes and I had been working on this song for a while. This song has multiple places that it's going to end up. I'm writing the musical right now and that's where I came up with the idea for the song, for the musical. And then, of course, it's on my album as well, because I feel like it is the best representation of the stuff that I want to make now, the content I want to make now, the topics I want to cover now. This song captures all of it. It's about looking within, it's about taking control of your life, it's about loving yourself and it's about smiling when, even when you don't know if you want to smile, you just I'm gonna. I'm gonna smile because I control me and if I want to walk through this fire and take it, I'm gonna do it with a smile on my face. So this song, I will keep my smile, performed at the dixie tavern with maniac max on the keys.
Speaker 1:I hope you enjoy and, once again, thank you so much for listening. If you have made it to this part, you can follow me on all streaming platforms and you can check me out for more information at domlamorecom, where you can get anything and everything. Domlamore, please subscribe to the podcast, share the podcast and give us a good rating five stars, please and thank you. Much love to you all. Be safe this summer and next week. I'm going to hit you off with a poem and we're going to have another interview after that. I did say that was going to be an interview this week. We had a couple of things with scheduling that I had to rearrange and I just hope you enjoyed what I was able to give you, on short notice, so much love to you all y'all be safe we gotta keep doing.
Speaker 1:That sounds good I want to try out a new song on y'all that I'm writing for my new album. Right now I'm putting together a project called Dami. My name is Dominique French. I was named after a black man who was from America, so it isn't really a French name.
Speaker 2:But Dominique Wilkins yeah, my mama was a huge basketball fan.
Speaker 1:She named me Dominique, she planned to name my little brother Ryan Shaquille, and she planned to name my little brother John Scottie, but they had different fathers to me and the dude said no, so that's how it goes. But she.
Speaker 2:No, that's a true story.
Speaker 1:That wasn't a, that wasn't a pleasure, but I wrote this song because I feel like we as a culture is in a weird place and you're going to the wrong song. I'm going to keep my smile.
Speaker 2:The way this song goes is very simple, folks.
Speaker 1:I feel like we always caught up in the wrong things. You hear songs about cheating on your significant other or being cool because you're hooking up with other people's lovers and you're cheating and horrible and shooting and killing. So, I wanted to sing a song about something relatable, something that I feel like all of us can relate to, and I hope y'all enjoy this call. I will keep my smile. Thank you, hey.
Speaker 2:How you feel. Do you want something real? Today was just so hard and all I want to do is go to bed. But I will fly, no cry, my team will lift me high. It always works. Forget the work and people who seem to know so much. I won't keep my smile.
Speaker 3:For a while.
Speaker 2:I'm so grateful and I'm able to live my way, my way my way, my way, my way, my way, my way. I'm so grateful, babe, thank you. Thank you, I won't keep my smile. Don't lose your smile.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna keep my smile, thank you.
