Episode 58 "That Journey..." (Tony Simmons)

“It was instant… It connected me to something aspirational…“ says Tony Simmons as he reflects on the time his grade school music teacher first put a flutophone in his hand. “I knew it was the first step on that journey...” “That journey” included gigging as a jazz trumpeter, learning to fly an airplane, practicing entertainment law and eventually becoming the Executive Director of Minnesota’s High School for Recording Arts and co-founding Another Level Records.  “…Music was much more than something to do…" he says, "It was a sense of being…. And that continues to this day. There is no dot at the end of that sentence…” 

Join us as Tony takes us on a twisting, turning fascinating ride through a fascinating life. Oh by the way, he may also have witnessed the birth of Hip-Hop. Yup.

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Music by:

“Season 2, Episode 3” - Glass Animals

“John McLaughlin” - Miles Davis

“Astronomy (8th Star)” - Black Star

“Return To Forever” - Chick Corea