Dancing About Architecture with Dylan Jack
The percussionist, composer, educator, and organizer join us in advance of the release of the Dylan Jack Quartet's latest, WInter Panes.
• Has released six recordings as a leader or co-leader and one film score (an original version of the 1922 film Nosferatu)
• Director and curator for the Not So Silent Film series in Providence, RI which focuses on improvising along with public domain silent films
• Teaches at Groton Hill Music Center in Groton, MA and Emerson College in Boston, MA
• Website | Instagram | Bandcamp
Dylan Jack Quartet's Winter Panes was selected as one of my 'Four for Fall' albums for Autumn 2024. The left-of-center "holiday" album includes covers of James Brown's "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto", a take on Vince Guraldi's "Skating" from A Charlie Brown Christmas, "Marley and Marley," the Statler & Waldorf show-stopper from A Muppet Christmas Carol and "Ocho Kandelikas," a Sephardic Hanukkah piece.
Bandleader Dylan Jack joined us in advance of the November 15 release date.
Lawrence Peryer: What is your first memory of music?
Dylan Jack: Playing a plastic guitar outside of my house, and someone trying to pay me to play something for them but I was too shy to play for them. My anxiety is still the same!
Lawrence: You want someone to understand you. What song or album do you give them?
Dylan: Last Exit - Self-Titled (1986).
Lawrence: What instrument(s) can you play?
Dylan: Drum-set and vibraphone.
Lawrence: What is a skill you wish you possessed?
Dylan: Time management and the ability to play upright bass.
Lawrence: What song, album, or artist never gets old for you?
Dylan: The band Type O Negative.
Lawrence: What music do you and your significant other disagree about?
Dylan: Death Metal.
Lawrence: What is a creative work or artist, outside of music, that you love or admire?
Dylan: Pumpkin carving and woodworking.
Lawrence: Who is your musical hero?
Dylan: Marv Dahlgren.
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“Marv was like the Steven Hawking of the percussion world. He had limitless imagination and could see the future. He opened the door to a new way of playing to a generation of drummers that absolutely raised the bar for what was humanly possible to play.”
Lawrence: What person, dead or alive, would you like to share a meal with?
Dylan: John Coltrane. Sweet potato as a post-concert snack.
Lawrence: Chess or checkers?
Dylan: Checkers.
Lawrence: There's a band playing in heaven tonight. Who is in it?
Dylan: John Coltrane Quartet (Coltrane, Jones, Garrison and Tyner).
Lawrence: What is your theme song?
Dylan: "Cold Souls" by Drab Majesty.
Lawrence: What was your first paycheck related to music?
Dylan: $250.
Lawrence: What was your first concert?
Dylan: Limp Bizkit.
Lawrence: When you were 15 your favorite artist, song, or album was:
Dylan: The band was Mudvayne, the album was L.D. 50 and the song was probably "Death Blooms".
Lawrence: What are some of the places you have saved on your phone's weather app?
Dylan: I don't have any places saved on my phone.
Lawrence: What is the last concert you saw?
Dylan: Zappa Plays Zappa in Medford, MA.
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