♪ control is everything to me ♪ learn how abbvie could help you save. good morning. welcome to mosaic. i am ron swisher. it's always a privilege to host on behalf of our producer and cohost. today we have a legend in music in the bay area. if you go to glide 9:00 and 10:00 or 9:00 and 11:00 sundayif you go to scott at sunday, monday, tuesday, at 6:00 to 9:00, if you don't go to any of those venues you are missing a great

legend in our midst. he is at a number of other venues but that's where you will find him almost all the time for over 30 years. i say he has been in the bay area for over 50 at what he does. we are blessed to have john turk. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> what a blessing. great to have you, john. >> it's a pleasure. >> great, great. i saw you probably 40 something years ago. i know you are a young man. >> oh, no, no.

>> john turk and third street antiques. you would play at all the clubs and then i saw you later at glide. you have been around. tell us a little bit about your background. >> well i started playing in the oakland area around 1965, '66 with a guy named johnny ayer, organ er, flute ar player. he wanted to expand his band. he had saxophone, drums, him playing organ so he wanted to add an instrument. i guess he had heard about me. one night i sat with his band, and i guess i did okay. so he hired me. we were playing at this place called the showcase. this is many moons ago. he decided he didn't want to be a band,

so the three of us left got together and formed our own organ trio. i bought me an organ and we got busy. >> when did the trumpet come in? you are one of the few that can do trumpet and piano at the same time. >> actually, o and hefor bea beg late at caso would just sit in. he actually hired me as a trumpet player. he didn't hire me to play organ. then he started taking advantage of the fact that i could play organ. so he came in late. you know, we played the first maybe 10 or 15 minutes. i got pretty good

at the organ. i kept listening to my jimmy smith records, you know. >> when you call your answering service, i think that's jimmy smith. >> no, that'sthat's you. okay. >> that's me. so like i said when he decided to go solo, that's when the three of us left formed a band. and that was it. >> i know you have performed with a lot of great artists. we are going to talk about that in the next segment. we have a minute left in this segment so send us out with something. ♪ ♪

i hope you have been with us. we have been listening to john turk. john turk as i said is a legend in the bay area, grew up in vallejo, has been playing for all the greats we can name from etta jones to sly

stone, lou rauls, b.b. king. you can see him on a regular basis at glide at 9:00 and 11:00. tell us how did that begin? how did you begin all the great music with the spirituality of the glide? >> it was fate and a fluke. i was supposed to just be there for two weeks. because the choir director was playing with an r & b group over in south africa for a couple weeks. while he ey needed somebody to, you know, play keyboard. so a buddy of mine that played drums at glide already called and asked did i want to do the gig for a couple weeks. i said sure, so i played. reverend williams

didn't know i played trumpet. but i played and i played the trumpet, and he like that. i guess he liked it. i am still there. so when the director dorsey came back, they didn't fire me . i just stayed. and i stayed and stayed. >> people come from all over to celebrate with the programs there and all the work thdo. a lot le come also for that idmblehow di that manage to develop? >> they also had a chonof the b

saxophone players anywhere, charles mcneil. i had him come in because we that saxophone an trumpet. >> that was added. >> right. then we were getting ready to do another cd. i said why don't we add a trombone? that's when joe berman came in. so we ended up with three horns. and we've had them ever since. this has been 15, 20 years now. >> now, when it comes to the choir, and i had the privilege of being there and coming to the choir rehearsals, it seemed like you rehearsed throughout select i ow cecil has a t do wi

you selesongs. i see what soloists are there. and i try to set the mood for the preacher to preach. i think that's my primary job. first, you are going to wake the people up so you don't want to start with nothing slow. >> okay. >> then the next song, you can't keep hitting them like that, you know. you've got to wake them up and then calm them down and then fire them back up. i mean, that's my way of doing it. so far, it has worked. then something before

the preacher preaches that really will touch you. >> so you have to always be in tune with that spirit as you go along. >> oh . to ern whatthe song is going to be. >> yes, because you are trying to bring the people in. i mean, they're already in the building. but you want to bring them into the spirit of what's goonis the way. >> touches the soul, touches the spirit. i read a lot about you in the world where as they say, the second of music and spirit of music, some like to keep that divorced. but you have learned to combine the two. any way you have done that so successfully, clues to how you do that? people have such a difficult time sometimes seeing

the two together. >> i never think about it. to me i am doing what i am supposed to do, which is play the music. >> you are called to do that. >> i feel just like a plumber would if he was going to fix your plumbing. >> gotta do what you are called to do. >> yeah, caed to somebody's plu religion they are. i am a musician. i am doing what i am supposed to do. >> we are to hear these sounds. this is my first time in my years of mosaic that we've had a musician segment

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welcome back to mosaic. you have probably heard some great sounds if you have been with us. i read more on john turk. his mom and dad were great at music and introduced him at the age of five. he has been playing since five and mastering instruments. he even has his young son playing drums who is quite good. he is named miles after someone we know too. tell us about your

family's influence. >> i actually first started mo church. >> okay. >> she didn't play by ear. she played, you know, by reading music. she showed few things, scales and stuff and how to read music. then i had a crazy cousin, cousin leroy. leroy played piano. but he played boogy woogy. he showed me how . anyway, i got into it. once i heard that boogy woogy, i was gone. that was it. it was all over for me.

>> what was your dad's influence? >> my dad, he is the one that loved music so much, he would buy the records. my momma didn't buy records. he would get them records cole and i would just listen for hours. >> great. >> yeah. >> how did you get with people like b.b. king, lou rauls, esther phillips? >> there were two clubs, the showcase and the sportsman. >> okay. >> he would have say bobby in one club and lou raul at the other. >> unbelievable. >> by us playing the showcase at the time, i got to play with everybody that was big, you

know. they called it the chitlin circuit. from vallejo, i thought i was in heaven. i mean, i got to play with and talk with the greatest r & b entertainers in the world. it doesn't get etta james, lou raul, arthur, ernie andrews. >> charles musclewhite. >> yeah. i played on regular with him years ago. it's great for me. >> the travel, i think i you sa difficult things about being a musician is the that? >> no. i like to go to bed in my own bed, you know. at the time i had two kids. i never

will forget i played they regal theater in chicago and i got to meet some of the members of the band with lloyd price. >> another legend. >> yeah. so some of those musicians had been on the road with lloyd price for years. >> i think he is still living. >> i am not sure. >> i think is. thly see kids once a year, twice a year, if they were coming through the town. >> that's difficult. >> i didn't want to do that. >> no. >> and ride on a bus. >> you had mentioned earlier that you first have to check the solos before you select certain songs. one of the solos is your wife.

>> yeah. >> cheryl, right. >> right. >> you have been married 20 years? >> should have been. but ten. i am not saying this because she's my wife but she can really sing. >> she's great. we heard you at the annual conference at the united methodist church last month. >> right. >> we heard her as well as the choir and of course your band and all that you bring. we are really quite blessed. >> thank you. >> when i see you at scott's, which i did not long ago, i always ask for certain songs. my funny that one time, you still got that on your repertoire? >> yeah, i can play a little bit. ♪ ♪

you might be wondering who is the young man in the center. this is miles, son of john and cheryl. he plays drums and has played at glide. i told him to come and join us in this last segment. john, play "stand." that's one of the standards there at glide. ♪ ♪

>> if you come to glide on sundays, you will hear this kind of great music and great soloist and great ministry there. next time you are in town, we are going to have young miles bring his drums. we'll somehow get him up here. i want you to close out with one of my favorites, a song for you. donnie hathaway and leon russell wrote it but donnie hathaway is really the one who kind of owns that song. so i want to thank you, john, for being here and bringing your

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