{"id":26794,"date":"2017-02-02T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/?p=26794"},"modified":"2017-02-03T12:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T10:22:01","slug":"trump-conceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/trump-conceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Conception\u2019s Janno Trump: Old Enough and Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>The Trump Conception is one of <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">the most talented jazz collectives in Estonia right now, and is just beginning to branch out internationally on the back of the ten-piece band\u2019s debut album, called One, which radiates no-nonsense, good-time vibes and is a must-listen. 26 year-old bandleader Janno Trump sat down with the Baltic Guide to talk through the new release, the Estonian jazz scene, and that famous (unrelated) namesake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">First of all, Trump cleared the elephant in the room &#8211; sharing a surname with the controversial new President of the United States. \u201cWe considered changing the name, but we\u2019ve already released the album, so I don\u2019t know&#8230; There are so many aspects to this, and right now I don\u2019t want to change the name, but we\u2019ve got two festival gigs coming up in Latvia and Lithuania in the summer, and I can imagine how it looks to someone who doesn\u2019t know the band and doesn\u2019t live in Estonia. A friend told me there\u2019s no bad publicity, and maybe that\u2019s right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Trump Conception --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2655612140491202\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4856289373\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI just felt something &#8211; my own thing &#8211; was missing,\u201d Trump says, explaining why he formed The Trump Conception in 2015 with a group of his friends. \u201cThere\u2019s only one chance. At that point I\u2019d written some tunes, but I didn\u2019t know what lineup would play them. There was one particular tune that I really liked, and which made me think the big band was the right way to put it out there. All of a sudden there were seven or eight tracks, and it grew from there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The band was picked from various sources by Trump. \u201cWith some of the guys, we used to play together at the Georg Otsa School, and then with others, I had the opportunity to play in bands with them. When it came to recording these tunes, I knew exactly who I wanted to call. I know their pros, cons and so on so well that I\u2019m not going to write something that doesn\u2019t play to their strengths. For all of us, our musical journeys have met at some point in life, and that gives us an understanding of where we\u2019re coming from musically.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe recording was in separate sessions &#8211; we recorded the rhythm section in Latvia, drums, bass guitar, electric guitar and piano, then step-by-step we recorded horns, and percussion. There were so many sessions because there\u2019s really so much to record, and there\u2019s also a lot of work to do after the sessions. It takes a long time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>However, Trump did not want <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">a pristine product, but an example of his band as a living, breathing collective. \u201cEverybody wants to get his or her album to be as clear as possible, but there\u2019s a danger that if it\u2019s too clean, it\u2019s boring. You can\u2019t repair everything. I know there are some mistakes on that recording, but I didn\u2019t want to repair everything, because it\u2019s good when the listener wonders from time-to-time if that was a mistake or intended.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">There were several key inspirations for the positive, sunny sound of the album. \u201cJaco Pastorius, a bass player, made some phenomenal recordings, and I think he\u2019s number one for me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Pat Metheny, a guitar player, another jazz guy, and Richard Bona, a bass player, they\u2019re all major influences for me. In Estonia, my own teachers in the Otsa School have been influential for me. Raul Vaigla is a fantastic bass player, for example.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAll the songs on the album, I think you can recognise them in the gigs, but each time we play instrumental solos, we do so in a different way. Because it\u2019s a big band, I can\u2019t think that everything is improvised, otherwise it would be chaos. You have to write something down, figure out some main melodies and harmonies, and then you can work around that.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">For Trump, 2017 is about getting out there and gigging to spread the word. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a live session coming up in the [recently renovated] Estonian Raadiomaja [Radio House]; I\u2019ve heard really good words about the place, the new technology there should be brilliant. I\u2019ve also been working on those festival gigs for three or four months now, trying to push the group out beyond just Estonia.\u201d Nonetheless, Trump is proud of his peers in the young Estonian jazz scene. \u201cThere are so many names [to look out for]. If you look at the Music Academy, it\u2019s full of talent. I\u2019ve had the pleasure to play with Maarja Aarma [a singer, part of Gretagrund as well as a solo artist], and [saxophonist] Alexander Paal just gave some amazing concerts with his quartet. Holger Marjamaa, the piano player&#8230; I can\u2019t say everyone, the list is too long.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>26 is a young age<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> for a jazz player, and exceptionally young for a band leader. Being the authority figure isn\u2019t a concern for Trump, though. \u201cActually I don\u2019t think about it. You can\u2019t lead a band and think about that. It doesn\u2019t matter how old you are &#8211; it\u2019s your band and your business!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">One, by The Trump Conception, is out now in record stores and on Spotify. Janno Trump plays in the band for wartime-style vocal group The Swingin\u2019 Sisters at Tallinn\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ee\/maps\/place\/Aia+3,+10111+Tallinn\/@59.4371098,24.7490462,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x46929361a4eec607:0x7b2474b9d58cde1!8m2!3d59.4371098!4d24.7512349?hl=et\"> Chicago 1933 (Aia 3, Tallinn Old Town)<\/a> on Friday 3rd February and Sunday 19th February at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ee\/maps\/place\/Tatari+4,+10141+Tallinn\/@59.4320554,24.7439102,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4692949ef057b983:0xab1db25502dc24ae!8m2!3d59.4320554!4d24.7460989?hl=et\">Philly Joe\u2019s Jazz Club (Tatari 4, Tallinn).<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">TEXT STUART GARLICK, PHOTOS ANDREI CHERTKOV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Conception is one of the most talented jazz collectives in Estonia right now, and is just beginning to &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-person-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}