Doreen Ketchins
speaker
125 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Doreen Ketchins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yep. I mean, I don't want to get haunted for the rest of my life, you know. That's what he'd do. He used to always tell me, you know, you got to play no matter what. So that's what I'm doing. And it's working. It's working. I get strength from just... thinking about the times he's been in the audience, you know, and giving me a nod, you know, one way or the other.
They call the rising sun. It's been the run of many a line. And now I know who I want.
We had drummer problems. And the drummer didn't show up, and he was tired of it, you know, and we were on the street. He said he wasn't that good anyway. I bet you I could play just as good as him and play the tuba. And so he sat behind the drums, and he took one stick in his left hand, and he just started to do it. I mean, just like that, and it was there.
He can't play rolls and stuff like that, so he does the inflections, you know what I mean? So... If you're just listening to the drummer, you know, there's a lot of space in there. But if you're listening to the group, then he fills in all of these spaces that you would normally hear the drummer do. It's just amazing, you know.
But Necessity is the mother of invention, and he invented the tuba drummer.
People have asked me about that growl a lot. So I did it actually. I did some videos on it on YouTube during the pandemic when I was going absolutely crazy because I couldn't go out and play. But there are two ways of doing a growl. There's one with the throat, you know, like that, like you're gargling. And there's another one with a tongue, like a Spanish R, you know.
And both of them basically sound the same when I do them. But you pick one, you know, and I picked the Spanish R because I thought the transition to and from was smoother. And that's how I do it. I just, that's how I do it. That's it.
I mean, just like with anything else, you know, if you're a parent, you want to be a better parent than your parent, even though you had a great parent, you know. But I just don't want to fall into a rut. People are growing up listening to what I'm doing, what I did, and, you know, I want to be above that. It's flattering.
In some senses, you know, it's insulting because people steal your licks and everything else and they don't acknowledge it, you know. But it's still, you know, you want to stay ahead of the game. You want to be the best. Louis Armstrong is like a big influence on me. And I have listened to what I thought up until the other day, actually.
I thought I listened to everything that was out there about Louis Armstrong. But there's always something new, you know. But I can hear the same song over that I've heard for hundreds of times and find something new inside of it.
Yeah, that is like asking about a child, you know what I mean? Because there's some that strike me in certain ways and others that strike me in others, you know? I mean, when you say that, you know, La Vie en Rose comes to mind, and probably because my daughter hates it. Oh, really? Why? She says. Yeah.
And then, you know, she fell in love and stuff like that, and she, like, understood it, you know, and stuff like that. La Vie en Rose comes to mind because, you know, he had a way of doing things, you know, sort of like Nat King Cole. You know, you can hear Nat King Cole singing French and Spanish.
He ain't the best French and Spanish, you know, but it's great, you know, because he had that respect, you know, for it. And you can hear Louis do all kinds of different kinds of music, you know, and still know it's Louis. First note, you know, I mean... So I just aspire to just be great. And in order to be great, you've got to keep aspiring to be great, you know.
Ahhhhhhh!
When you speak, angels sing from above. Every day what seems too tight into love songs. Give your heart and soul to me and life will always believe.
Yeah, I didn't realize it at all. I was just doing what I do. I was just learning songs and playing songs. And somebody asked me when I was... And I was singing, you know, they said, how do you do that with those words? And I'm like, what are you talking about? And, you know, just Louis spoke like my dad, you know. And so without realizing it, you know, instead of saying word, I say void.
You know, stuff like that, you know, because that's what, you know, I grew up with. You know, you change with society. You know, you go to college and you say, well, that boy, you know, like, what the heck are you talking about? You know what I mean? So, but, you know, it always comes back when I do that.
And a lot of the melodies, you know, the way he interpreted the melodies and stuff, I really, really, really liked it, you know, and it appealed to me. So, you know, sometimes, you know, I start off like I learned a melody.
right from him you know I'll do exactly what he does but as you know as I play it as I develop you know with the song it becomes me you know I change a few things you know because he played a trumpet and I play a clarinet you know and he was a much older man I was a much younger woman and just other things that come into play that you don't expect but they do because it's human nature you know so yeah
I didn't realize it, but once I realized it, I embraced it and just rolled with it, you know, and I'm still rolling with it.
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