Josh Groban

He's amazing.

One of one experience.

I, um, great, great musical arranger, Vince Mendoza gave us that beautiful arrangement.

And there was always a moment in the song for an instrumental.

And I had great trumpet players that I'd kind of reached out to get feelers.

I talked to Wynton Marsalis and Terrence Blanchard, my heroes to say, Hey, I'm doing this song.

Would you, would you be interested?

And they both said, send me in.

And then I said to myself, you know, my favorite trumpet player is also my favorite person.

And my dad is turning 80 this summer.

He hasn't played the trumpet

anyway in any way professionally since the 60s right and i asked him i said if i i know you played moon river as a kid if i got you to rehearse you had two weeks notice do you think you could get the lip and do you think you could do it and he says well let me see and he unzipped his his trumpet you know case it had dizzy gillespie for president on it and it was dusty hadn't been open since like the 70s and you know every time i'd call the house i'd say mom how's he doing i'd be here okay

You know, in the background, he's rehearsing.

And I said, how's it going, dad?

He said, good, good.

You know, I actually think I might be able to do this.

So Greg Wells, our producer, set it up.

I said, look, this is going to be my dad.

I want this to be special and we need to have some patience.

He hasn't played in a while.