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    OZ NOY INTERVIEW

    Dec 15, 2021 6 minutes

    How did you decide on the choice of standards for the new album?

    During the start of the pandemic in Spring 2020 when NYC just started to get out of lockdown I was really eager to play. I live on the upper west side in NYC next to two parks (Central Park and Riverside Park) so I called two of my friends Ugonna Okegwo (acoustic bassist) and Ray Marchica (drummer) that live in my neighbourhood and asked if they’d be into playing in the park. We started to play in Riverside Park during the day about three times a week from end of May till end of Oct (when it got cold). By the end Ray came up with the idea of us recording and documenting this band cause we play so much and started to actually sound like a band. We ended up going to a studio for two days and recording some of the standards that we played all summer in

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