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Buzz Knight
Taking a Walk I'm Buzz Knight and welcome to the Taking a Walk podcast. Now there's a sound that lives somewhere between a Sunday morning church service and a late night Brooklyn bar. Between the sacred and the celebratory, between gospel, fire and jazz. Cool. It's not a sound you can easily categorize. And that is exactly the point. The man behind it grew up as the only black kid at a school during the week and then spent his Sundays inside a church in Akron, Ohio, where his family and sang and called the spirit down. Those two worlds, the outsider and the anointed, shaped everything. He went on to anchor the house band on the Late show with Stephen Colbert for nearly a decade, tour arenas with Oar Co, found the jazz funk collective Hunter Tones, and share stages with Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Gary Clark Jr. And yet, through all of it, he never stopped being that kid in the church pew, watching music do something to people that words simply couldn't. His debut album called Night Service Live at Lunaco is proof that some things are worth waiting for. Today we're gonna be taking a walk with trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader and one of the most joyful presences in music today, John Lampley, next on Taking a Walk.
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John Lampley
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Lynn Hoffman
walk John Lampley welcome to the Taking a Walk podcast. It's an honor to have you here.
John Lampley
Oh, it's an honor to be here, Buzz. Thank you so much for having me.
Lynn Hoffman
So your time growing up as this kid in school, Sundays church in Akron, pretty extraordinary cultural tightrope that you were walking as a kid. How did navigating in those worlds shape you as a musician, but also as a person?
John Lampley
I mean, I think that having kind of this unique experience of being a kid growing up in a family where all of my cousins and aunts and uncles uncles and my moms sang or played an instrument at church, being surrounded by gospel music, but then kind of going to school and being in school band, which was an entirely different tradition, those things shaped me in many ways. My family was, you know, rooted in faith. So as a human being, that was kind of like very grounding for me from a young age. And I think that had a lot to do with, you know, how I've grown up, not just musically but as a person, but it was also really interesting because the older I got, you know, I was a little kid, I was only allowed to listen to gospel music. You know, there was nothing else. But the older I got, you know, I'd start going to my friends houses and, you know, they were listening to alternative rock and hip hop. And so it's like I started to hear these new sounds as I got older. And that was kind of coming through the lens of this church kid who knew the sound of gospel music. And I feel like once I really started to, you know, play and try to figure out how to improvise on the instrument, it was like all of these sounds were kind of just coming out inside of me. But I also think just growing up in Akron, Ohio, and Ohio in general, there were so many phenomenal gospel musicians that I got to hear at my own church on Sundays or visiting other churches in the region. And you know, a lot of people will ask, oh well, like as a trumpet player, as an artist, who are your, you know, biggest influences? And for me, you know, before I go to list the names that everybody knows, like the Stevie Wonders or the Otis Reddings, I feel like my earliest, you know, biggest influences were, you know, Eugene Wilson, who was the choir director and would sing every Sunday. Or James Thomas, who was, you know, one of the men who sang on the praise team. Like, these were the voices that I was hearing from an early age and watching them not only sing, you know, the way that they sang, but kind of command an audience and be able to control the tone of a room. I think before I ever knew that I wanted to do this for a living, I saw that, and deep inside of myself, I was like, you know what? I want to be able to do that someday, if that makes sense.
Lynn Hoffman
It makes total sense. And so that leads me to the trumpet and the fact probably that when you first picked up the trumpet, since so much of your influences were steeped in your. In your faith, it wasn't really like you were in awe necessarily of the lineage of great trumpet players. Is that right?
John Lampley
Absolutely correct. When I first picked up the trumpet, you know, I'll never forget it. As soon as I could, you know, play a couple of scales, you know, you get. You like fifth grade band, sixth grade band, they're teaching you scales. As soon as my mom could hear that, like, I could make my way through a couple scales on my own, she was like, all right, you're taking your trumpet to church. You just go in the corner and start playing with the musicians. You know, didn't tell anybody anything. Just showed up one Sunday and started playing. And I didn't know anything about, you know, Louis Armstrong or Freddie Hubbard or Roy Hargrove or Lee Morgan. I knew that my mom wanted me to show up at church and play trumpet. And so I was learning all of these songs by ear. Nobody was really teaching me any of the music. It would just be listening to the organ player, listening to the bass player, and kind of like finding my way through. Honestly, it wasn't until I got to college and. And my freshman year of college at Ohio State started hanging with some musicians that were like, hey, you should actually check out, you know, this jazz lineage. Because up until then, it was like, you know, I wasn't listening to jazz. My family didn't listen to jazz. My dad listened to, like, R and B, soul music. But when I got to college and I actually started studying with an incredible trumpet player from New Orleans named Kenyatta Beasley, he was the one that was like, look, if you want to play this instrument, these are the guys that you have to check out. You have to check out Louis Armstrong, you have to check out Freddie Hubbard. And when I started listening to them, it was mind blowing because, you know, for me as somebody who was in love with the sounds of gospel, the sounds of soul music, to hear guys playing the instrument that way was absolutely mind blowing. And eventually I was led to who I would argue is my biggest hero on the instrument, Roy Hargrove. And Roy Hargrove, I think, spoke to me when I heard him play, because I could tell immediately that he was also. Also coming from this gospel tradition. But he was so rooted in the lineage of jazz. And I just wanted to do what he was doing, both on the trumpet, but also, I love that he. He didn't just play jazz. He was. You know, his music kind of had this R and B flavor to it. He was featured on, you know, d' Angelo Records, John Mayer Records, and I was like, man, like, I want to be like that guy when I grow up, but. But, yeah, it took me a little longer to get steeped into the real lineage of the trumpet. And I think that early on, that led to some insecurity. You know, there were people that were listening to, you know, and Freddie Hubbard and transcribing solos when they're 14 or 15 years old or hearing stories of Wynton Marcel is like, you know, being able to play all this stuff at the age of 16, I'm like, man, like, I just found out who Lee Morgan was, and I'm like, 19, 20 years old. But eventually, I think it just kind of encouraged me to get to the point where, you know, those musicians in that tradition respected what I was doing. So I really kind of dove into that lineage when I was in college, if that makes sense.
Lynn Hoffman
You've been part of the Late Show House Band since, I think, day one, right, 2015, playing alongside John Batiste and now Louis Cato night after night. As I said before we started the interview, I said, I. I see you every day, you know, and here you are. What does that kind of sustained high wire performance teach you that you can't learn anywhere else?
John Lampley
I think being a part of the band at the Late show for the past 10 years has been an incredible experience. It's really hard to describe. It's like every day we're playing different music every day. You have to internalize music very quickly. It's been this massive study in performance, not just with what we're doing, but watching Stephen every night and his team put that show together and how he presents it both to the audience in the room, but also to the audience on tv. But I think the thing that I've learned, that I would say I could not have learned or anybody could really not learn anywhere else is how to internalize music incredibly quickly. And notice that I'm not saying memorize, because I think memorizing music and internalizing music are two very different things. I think it's like one day we will have to learn a specific song to walk on Michelle Obama, and the next day we'll have to learn a set of music that we're playing with James Taylor. And it's like you only have so much space in the docket. So the key is being able to internalize and learn that music kind of as quickly and as deeply as possible. And I think the longer that I was over there, the better I got at that. And we kind of all talk about this in the band. How much quicker now we can learn music because of our experience there. I think that that's. That's kind of the thing that is. That happened over there that I don't think would happen anywhere else. But also, I mean, there's. There's so many non music things that we've learned over there. I think one of the big things that I've learned over there is how to listen both, you know, within the bandstand, in an environment where there's cameras, where there's an audience, but also, again, watching Stephen interview hundreds of hundreds of people over the years, and just watching the way that he's listening. You know, there's an agenda that he's there to promote, but also, if somebody says something, he'll grab that and that will lead to a conversation. And it's just like that type of listening is a very deep thing and applicable to, you know, our world as musicians. So I think I've learned a lot of that as well.
Lynn Hoffman
So you're at an interesting crossroads here with the show soon coming to an end, unfortunately, and you've got new music out as well. That's obviously something that I want you to talk about and how proud you are of it. Talk about the new work and talk about this crossroads moment.
John Lampley
Yeah. So it is, you know, very surreal that this thing that has been kind of the centerpiece of my musical world is coming to an end. But it's also, you know, given me a lot of time to focus on some of my own music. I've been very, you know, fortunate to have a career where I've been at the Late Show. I've been playing with this band oar for 15 years. I've gotten to do some work with Lake Street Dive. I've been able to be a part of a lot of really amazing bands and artist projects. Co founded a kind of jazz funk project called 100 Tones. But specifically, over the last three years I've been focusing on writing my own music, not just as a trumpet player, but also as a singer. And I think that I'm really, really, really proud of this album, Notes to Self, because I am kind of exploring different ways to make sounds to try to amalgamate all of these sounds that I'm hearing in my head, all the different music that I like to listen to, but also just it's my first stab at really, you know, putting myself out there as a songwriter. And, you know, I've let a lot of my friends listen to the music that I look up to as songwriters and against very vulnerable things like an instrumentalist primarily. And everybody's like, man, like a, like you sound pretty good as a singer and B, like we didn't know you were, you know, writing songs like this. And that makes me really happy that the people that I respect as artists, you know, are saying that this work is cool and that it's meaningful. But at the end of the day, I'm proud of this because I think it's a very honest reflection of where I'm at and in the next phase of my career. I kind of want my own artistry to be a bigger part of it. So I'm really, I'm looking forward to people hearing it and kind of deciding what they think of the music.
Lynn Hoffman
Music sounds unbelievable and appreciate that.
John Lampley
We'll be right back with more of the Taking a Walk podcast.
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Welcome back to the Taking a Walk podcast.
Lynn Hoffman
You've been in rooms with some of the greatest musicians alive.
John Lampley
Not.
Lynn Hoffman
Not just your bandmates who are unbelievable musicians, but people like Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon and Billy Joel. Is there a moment from one of those collaborations that literally stopped you in your tracks and reminded you how remarkable life is?
John Lampley
I mean, there are many, there are many, but the one that I will give is Stevie Wonder, I think, has been a north star of mine from very early on. Like I said, you know, grew up listening to gospel music. My dad listened to a lot of R B and soul. And I picked up a CD when I was probably in 9th or 10th grade and it was just like a greatest hits type CD of Stevie Wonders. And I remember just feeling how, how can all of this music come out of one human being? And then the older I got, the deeper I got into his discography and just his music is brilliant to me because it's, it's virtuosic without sacrificing humanity. And also as a songwriter, I think he found a way to speak to universal, universal issues of, of love, of, you know, protest, of the experience of you know, unity in a way that everybody loved.
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John Lampley
And I've always loved his music. And in 2016, he was interviewed on the show, and he got up from the interview and came over to the band stand and sat at the piano, and we got to play his song. Don't you worry about a thing with him. And to be somebody that has revered Stevie my whole life, and to have him just sitting there right next to me on the piano while we're playing one of his songs, it's like, it was exactly what you said. One of these moments that it's just like, oh, my God, I'm so grateful, and. And I can't believe that this is my life, you know, And I've genuinely. Just every day, I try to take a second and practice gratitude, because I feel like I've had a lot of moments like that at various junctures, you know, like you said, like, getting to do that with Paul Simon or somebody like Thundercat or literally the other day, sing background vocals with James Taylor, and I'm like, man, I'm a kid from Talmage, Ohio. You know what I mean? I. There's no way that I feel like this is what I could have imagined my life being. So I'm extremely grateful for that experience, all of those experiences. But, yeah, the Stevie Wonder one. Took me, like, a full two weeks to even realize that that had even happened, you know? Surreal.
Lynn Hoffman
Did you go back and watch it?
John Lampley
Oh, yeah. I like that night. Even watching it, it's like you're. It's like the type of thing where you watch it and you're like, there's no way that's me.
Buzz Knight
You.
John Lampley
That's like somebody else on stage with Stevie Wonder. But it's. It's. It's very, very surreal to have those moments, you know, it just. I don't know, it's. I feel like. I mean, at this point, that was almost 10 years ago, and it still really hasn't. When I say it out loud, it's like, yeah, man, you got to play with Stevie. It's like what, you know, just hasn't really sunk in.
Lynn Hoffman
Still.
John Lampley
Still, it's wild.
Lynn Hoffman
And describe what it's been like being inside that theater.
John Lampley
I think that there are places that hold the weight of, you know, so much history, whether it be, you know, for some people, maybe it's like a baseball stadium like Fenway, or, you know, a venue like Madison Square Garden. And the Ed Sullivan Theater is certainly one of those venues. You know, this is a theater that kind of carries this deep, rich tradition of late night television, not just as we know it now, but, like, literally. You think about somebody like Ed Sullivan who had some of the legendary entertainers on this show, and then, you know, Letterman who carried on that tradition, and then Stephen, who's carried on that tradition. And, you know, you think about the epic moment of the Beatles with the women screaming, and you're like, this is the theater that I play in every single day. And when we're in there doing the show, it's like you can feel the ghosts, for lack of a better word, of that history in there when we're making music and when we're creating. And I think that it's something that I really try not to take for granted. You know, it's getting to be a part of kind of the lineage of entertainment in American history, really world history. And when I think about the show ending, that's one of the things that makes me the saddest. You know, it's like, you know, obviously it's going to be sad to not do the show with Stephen and this incredible band and this incredible team, but it's like thinking about that theater being empty is just very surreal when you think about all of the things that have happened there. So I think I'm just very grateful to have spent the amount of time creating in that theater. And, yeah, it's. It's also really weird that a place like that becomes familiar, you know? You know, I like, kind of like just we rehearse there every other day, and it's like, I'm just hanging out. Sometimes you got to be like, no, man, this isn't normal. Like, this is like the Ed Sullivan Theater, named after Ed Sullivan, who, like, your parents and your grandparents, like, grew up on. And you've gotten to hang out in here for the last 10 years. So it's. Again, I just. I've tried really hard not to take that for granted. And especially in these last couple of months that we're there, it's like every day I just. Every day before I go downstage, I try to, like, touch the wall, and it's just a reminder that it's like, yeah, man, like, you are in here and this is real. And, like, do not take that for granted.
Lynn Hoffman
And the Ed Sullivan Story, which I didn't know to the depth that I did from watching the. The recent documentary on how he was such a champion of. Of, you know, just endless array of artists.
John Lampley
Yes.
Lynn Hoffman
You know, black artists. And just really, he broke the mold, really, when it comes down to it, which he A lot of people don't think of Ed Sullivan that way, right?
John Lampley
I mean, it's funny because, you know, the tech. When you watch the Emmys, the technical term for a lot of these shows is like a variety show show. And when you think about the Ed Sullivan show, it was like actually a variety show. You know, there were bands, but there were dancers, there were actors that would do all different sorts of things. And, you know, imagine if you're. If you're, you know, you get home, you're tuning in to the Ed Sullivan show. You knew to. You came to expect something that would blow your mind and you'd learn something new. And I. And I think that that's a really wonderful tradition. And again, I give a lot of credit to Stephen, who has, you know, taken on that mantle and in his own way, really explored a wide array of topics across comedy, but also across, you know, interviewing the various guests and featuring different types of artists on the show. But, yeah, Ed Sullivan truly was a pioneer in that way.
Lynn Hoffman
So since we do call this podcast Taking a Walk, in closing, John Lampley, is there someone that you would like to take a walk with? If you could suspend belief, living or dead, who would you take a walk with, and where would you take that walk with him?
John Lampley
Oh, wow, what a wonderful question. I feel like we could do a whole separate podcast on that alone, right? If I could take a walk with somebody, I would take a walk with Louis Armstrong, who I believe is the greatest, not just trumpet player. I think he is the greatest entertainer of all time. And obviously I'm a trumpet player, so I'm biased. But I would take a walk with him around Prospect park, which, for those who don't know, is kind of the Brooklyn version of Central park, if you will. And being a Brooklynite the entire time that I've been in New York, it's kind of become a place that's very comforting to me. And I'd love to walk with Pops around that park and just, you know, ask him for advice, not just on trumpet, but on, you know, being an artist. But also, I think I just ask him still. I love to hear him tell stories, you know, just over a incredibly prolific and wide ranging career. I would love to just kind of hear him talk about what he experienced and, you know, in that voice that we have all come to love. So I think that would be the person I would love to take a walk with on, you know, a nice sunny day in Brooklyn, New York.
Lynn Hoffman
That'd be pretty amazing. And I'm gonna throw a plug in for the great Louis Armstrong Museum and the house there, which is an incredible take, especially with all the great audio as you walk through there, but you feel like Pops is actually, actually there. But I'd love to be a fly on the wall with that. John Lampley Congrats on Notes to Self. You have an open invite to come back anytime on the Taking a Walk podcast. Thank you for all the joy that you continue to give us and thanks for being on Taking a Walk.
John Lampley
Buzz. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.
Lynn Hoffman
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Episode: Jon Lampley – Inspiring Stories Behind Music, Growth, and Legendary Collaborations
Date: March 20, 2026 | Host: Buzz Knight
Guest: Jon Lampley (trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader – Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Huntertones, O.A.R.)
In this episode, Buzz Knight sits down with Jon Lampley, a dynamic trumpeter and vocalist known for his effervescent spirit and genre-blending artistry. Lampley delves into the influences that shaped his musical identity—growing up as a gospel kid in Akron, Ohio, his decade-long role in the Late Show House Band, founding the jazz-funk collective Huntertones, and collaborating with legends like Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon. The conversation explores creativity amid transition, the discipline of live TV, and the power of authenticity in music.
[05:21 – 08:18]
Childhood split between church and school: Jon describes growing up as “the only black kid at school during the week and Sundays in church surrounded by a musical family.”
The robust Akron, Ohio, gospel community was more influential than mainstream artists in Jon’s early years.
Quote:
“Before I go to list the names that everybody knows…my earliest, you know, biggest influences were Eugene Wilson…or James Thomas, who was…on the praise team. These were the voices I was hearing from an early age.”
— Jon Lampley [07:20]
Exposure to new genres came later via friends’ houses—alternative rock, hip-hop; these mixed with gospel foundation to forge his sound.
The ability to move between cultural worlds—outsider and anointed—would define his outlook as both person and musician.
[08:18 – 11:55]
“Eventually I was led to…Roy Hargrove…I could tell immediately that he was also coming from this gospel tradition, but he was so rooted in the lineage of jazz. And…I wanted to be like that guy when I grow up.”
— Jon Lampley [10:30]
[11:55 – 14:48]
“Notice that I’m not saying memorize…memorizing music and internalizing music are two very different things.”
— Jon Lampley [12:52]
[14:48 – 17:11]
“I’m really, really, really proud of this album…my first stab at really putting myself out there as a songwriter. It’s a very honest reflection of where I’m at and in the next phase of my career.”
— Jon Lampley [16:14]
[21:41 – 24:55]
Jon recounts sharing stages with legends: Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Thundercat, James Taylor.
The Stevie Wonder moment stands out—playing “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing” while Wonder sits at the piano with him.
“To be somebody that has revered Stevie my whole life…and to have him just sitting there…while we’re playing one of his songs…it’s just like, oh my god, I’m so grateful, and I can’t believe this is my life.”
— Jon Lampley [23:14]
He practices gratitude for these surreal opportunities, recalling specific sessions that took days to process.
[24:57 – 27:37]
[29:03 – 30:42]
“I’d love to walk with Pops around that park and…ask him for advice, not just on trumpet, but on being an artist, and hear him tell stories…in that voice that we have all come to love.”
— Jon Lampley [29:49]
On early influences:
“My earliest, you know, biggest influences were Eugene Wilson…or James Thomas…These were the voices that I was hearing from an early age.” [07:20]
On discovering his trumpet lineage late:
“There were people that were…transcribing solos when they were 14 or 15…I just found out who Lee Morgan was…and I’m like 19, 20 years old.” [11:15]
On performance discipline:
“Memorizing music and internalizing music are two very different things.” [12:52]
On witnessing music legends:
“I can’t believe that this is my life…just every day, I try to take a second and practice gratitude, because I feel like I’ve had a lot of moments like that at various junctures.” [23:18]
On Ed Sullivan Theater:
“You can feel the ghosts, for lack of a better word, of that history in there when we’re making music and when we’re creating.” [25:25]
This episode is a warm, candid journey through Jon Lampley’s dynamic musical world—a world shaped by gospel roots, a willingness to be vulnerable, and the joy of both giving and receiving musical inspiration. Lampley’s stories offer insight into balancing discipline and gratitude, the evolving role of an artist, and cherishing every surreal, stage-shared moment. For anyone passionate about music’s living history—or seeking inspiration to carve their own unique path—this episode is a must-listen.
Host: Buzz Knight
Guest: Jon Lampley
For more: Check out Jon Lampley’s “Notes to Self” and visit the Louis Armstrong Museum in Queens, NY.
Ad sections, show plugs, and outro omitted as per request.