#1 Billboard Smooth Jazz Artist; #1 Allen Kepler's Smooth Jazz Network Top 100 and Nominee of Soultrack's Instrumentalist of the Year (2021) and the Central Standard Time Show's 2021 Artist of the Year, Big New York, aka, Bassist Extraordinaire, Christian de Mesones is hot off the charts with his single, "Hispanica" featuring keyboard legend Bob James.
Christian has been playing bass for over 40 years. He is a graduate of the Musician's Institute and toured all over the country playing Heavy Metal and Smooth Jazz!
Big New York talks about his amazing journey, the importance of relentlessness and intentionality!
SHOW NOTES
00:00 - Show Open & Introductions
01:34 - Looking Back / The Capital Jazz Fest
07:10 - Working With Bob James
13:07 - Back to The Record Store & The Musician's Institute
16:22 - The Brooklyn Heavy Metal Scene
18:21 - Smooth Jazz
19:39 - Artistic Expression
22:11 - You Only Live Twice
26:10 - The Complication of Smooth Jazz
27:40 - The Issue of Streaming
31:12 - Abundance & Blessings
32:30 - Hispanica
33:50 - More Music in Schools
37:00 - Advice for Novice EntreMusicians
39:13 - Playing Music later in life
47:32 - Punky Meadows
50:34 - SHOW CLOSING
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