Podcasts by 149 Sessions
Jen Allen and Noah Baerman, co-leaders of the jazz group Trio 149, get together to talk about music, philosophy, navigating through life, and all sorts of intersections among them.
Further podcasts by Jen Allen and Noah Baerman
Podcast on the topic Musikrezensionen
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Conversation with Ted Nash from 2021-07-15T04:00
The latest in 149 Sessions conversations with guest musicians is Jen and Noah's chat with Grammy-winning saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and visionary Ted Nash. In this conversation held...
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Conversation with Orrin Evans from 2021-04-30T09:00
Jen and Noah continue their conversations with guest musicians, this time Grammy-nominated bandleader, pianist, composer, record label head, and community organizer Orrin Evans. The three discus...
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Conversation with Caroline Davis from 2021-03-30T04:00
Jen and Noah invite another guest, this time award-winning saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis, for a wide-ranging conversation about creativity, motivation, math, cognition, social activism...
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Conversation with Remy Le Boeuf from 2021-03-10T04:00
Jen and Noah launch Season 2 with a conversation with Grammy-nominated saxophonist and big band composer Remy Le Boeuf, discussing his musical origins, approach to composing, illustrious family,...
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Defining Success from 2020-09-09T04:00
Can you evaluate whether you are successful without first clarifying what metrics you're using to define success and working out the sincerity and relevance of that decision? Well, we'...
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Public Vulnerability from 2020-08-19T04:00
Vulnerability is already a tricky subject, and here Jen and Noah explore the subtopic of being vulnerable in public by putting oneself "out there" as musicians or otherwise, including ...
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Experiencing Music Part 2 from 2020-08-06T08:00
In Part 2 of this two-part discussion, Jen and Noah continue to explore what it is to experience music, particularly the physical experience therein and the elusive question of why we connect to...
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Experiencing Music from 2020-07-15T04:00
In Part 1 of a two-part discussion, Jen and Noah earnestly take on the questionable task of unpacking what it means to experience music, exploring emotional, spiritual, and visceral aspects and ...
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Being Uncomfortable from 2020-07-01T04:00
Being uncomfortable. You dislike it, we dislike it, it's pretty much human nature. Yet forward motion internally, in relationships, and in society demands that we learn to sit with the unco...
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Making Plans from 2020-05-20T04:00
We all know intellectually that we can't predict the future and that any plans we make should be taken with a grain of salt given that uncertainty - that was true pre-pandemic and is all th...
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Letting Go from 2020-05-06T04:00
Jen and Noah have their first socially distanced podcast discussion, an appropriate time to explore the idea of "letting go," including their own paths to loosening the impulse to clin...
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Why We Make Music from 2020-03-18T04:00
While this episode was recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak, this seems like a particularly opportune moment to think about what drives us to make music (hint: it's not the massive fi...
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Target Audience from 2020-03-04T04:00
The idea of "target audience" brings up visions of algorithm-driven marketing campaigns and whatnot, which we suppose is part of the world we now inhabit. As artists, though, it speaks...
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Comparing Ouselves to Others from 2020-02-05T04:00
Stereotypically, comparing ourselves to others is a self-defeating mental exercise that we should avoid to the degree possible. And yet, a) we all do it to some extent and b) not all of this com...
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The Quest for Acceptance from 2020-01-15T04:00
In some ways the craving to be accepted is an indulgence of the ego that can hold us back from our most sincere pursuits, while in other ways it is a natural mechanism for social and professiona...
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Inspiration Comes, Inspiration Goes from 2019-12-04T04:00
Inspiration is central to both the reality and the mythology of being a creative artist. Sometimes we are flooded with it and sometimes the well feels as if it has run dry. Each of these extreme...
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The Substance Beyond the Music from 2019-11-20T01:00
Instrumental music allows for a high degree of abstraction, so unlike most music based around lyrics, a typical jazz composer has the freedom to just dig into the sounds without concern for the ...
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Our Musical Origins from 2019-11-05T16:00
Jen and Noah talk about the people and experiences at the roots of their musical beginnings, from Jen's high school band teacher to Stevie Wonder.
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Our Musical Origins from 2019-11-05T16:00
Jen and Noah talk about the people and experiences at the roots of their musical beginnings, from Jen's high school band teacher to Stevie Wonder.
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Our Musical Origins from 2019-11-05T16:00
Jen and Noah talk about the people and experiences at the roots of their musical beginnings, from Jen's high school band teacher to Stevie Wonder.
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