Buckle up for a wildly entertaining ride as we sit down with the legendary Benny Bloom—🎖️ Grammy Award-winning trumpet player, musical trailblazer, performer, and all-around incredible human. Benny takes us back to where it all started—playing the recorder as a kid—before sharing his journey to becoming one of jazz and funk’s finest, and playing with icons like Stevie Wonder ✨ and Wu-Tang Clan 🎤.

Best known for playing in the wildly successful funk band, Lettuce 🥬—a band that rewrites the rules of funk and blurs genre lines—Benny talks life, music, and his roots, including his Portuguese 🇵🇹 mother and his Jewish ✡️ father. We dive into his latest EP, Late Bloomer 🌸, and swap stories about wine 🍷, seafood 🦞, doing drugs in England 🇬🇧, Alabama, and even monkeys 🐒.

This episode is packed with laughs 😂, legendary tales 🎵, and off-the-wall fun facts. It’s a conversation as funky 🎷, vibrant 🌟, and freewheeling as Benny himself.

Pour yourself a glass, tune in, and let’s get into it! 🎧🍷

Cheers!

m&t