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I got drawn JI: Could you discuss some of your sources of that point, I said, “I think I need to take this into the R&B thing with the Jackson 5. Then inspiration and background? music stuff a little bit more seriously.” I start- as a bass player, you start gravitating towards ed playing the bass and learning the songs. funky bands. War was an incredible band at MM: I’m from a musical family. My father Luckily, the bass player that I was emulating – that time, and Sly and the Family Stone, and a plays the piano. His cousin played piano with or who I thought I was emulating – was little later Kool and the Gang and Tower of Miles Davis. Wynton Kelly was his name. My Michael’s brother Germaine. He is the guy Power were all important bands. father’s father played the piano, and my fa- who plays the bass when they’re on the stage. ther’s sisters all sang. So music was part of my I realize now that I was emulating James JI: War, led by Eric Burdon, was an out- life. To be honest, it wasn’t anything special. I Jamerson - the famous Motown session bass growth of his previous band, The Animals thought that’s what everybody did. You had player. He was playing on all the records. So I who had hits with “Don’t Let Me Be Misun- choir rehearsals at your house on Wednesdays, got a really good solid foundation from those derstood,” and “House of the Rising Sun.” and you heard your dad practicing all week. Jackson 5 records. All the kids my age were You went to church and listened to that music. crazy about them. I guess every generation has MM: Exactly. That was Eric Burdon’s group. Then you went down to the church basement the kid group that they love. My generation In the ‘70’s, they were just coming up with and performed for your family on Sunday af- just happened to be fortunate enough to have grooves. The grooves had a little bit of a New Orleans flavor to them. The bass line usually stayed in the same place creating a trance. One of those songs was “Slippin’ Into Darkness.” “I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to The bass just played three notes over and over again. And that thing just got in your bones take her [Roberta Flack’s] offer to play man. I think I have some theme bass lines that I walk around the street hearing in my head - and that’s one of them. So every once in a in the road band … But I ran into her while, I pull them out and decide to try to do a cover. on the street in New York. She was rid- JI: Janelle Monáe—her song “Tightrope”? ing her bike. She said, ‘You haven’t re- MM: Well, that’s on the other side because that song was out, like that song was a hit a turned my phone calls. Are you going couple of years ago. But it’s so cool. It re- minded me of the songs I loved because it has a bass line that’s really cool. It sounded like a to go on the road or not?’ I couldn’t boogie-woogie, New Orleans kind of feeling. So I called Dr. John, whose voice kind of con- say no to her face—so I took the gig. It tains New Orleans in it – to have him collabo- rate with me on this song. We had a lot of fun. was one of the best things I ever did.” JI: Ivan Lins’ compositions provide a com- pletely different flavor on your CD. ternoons. That’s what I thought everybody did. their kid group be a bunch of geniuses. Mi- So music wasn’t really that special—it was chael Jackson stayed inspirational for his MM: That guy writes such beautiful songs. I just part of my life. But when I heard the Jack- whole life - and up until a few years ago when recorded with him a few times. I first heard son 5, when I was ten years old, and they told he passed. He was an inspiration to me. I was “Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song”) on a me the kid singing was my age—that kind of at a bass clinic a few years ago and they said Quincy Jones album - he did a beautiful ver- blew my mind. These guys were so talented we don’t have a drummer, we just want you to sion, with wordless vocals. I wanted to do it and the music was so incredible. Not only play the bass for the kids and talk about the and, of course, I wanted to give it a spin be- were they talented, but they came at the end of bass.