From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

In the last 16 years since he's last been here, Tyler Perry is directed.

Let's see, about 20 films or so, created 14 TV series, the majority of which were enormous popular successes.

In the midst of that, for a good chunk of it, he was directing, starring, and producing in stage plays.

In the Instagram, he's also won the TV Academy Governors Award, the Gene Herschel

Humanitarian Award. His new film, as writer-director-producer, he took a break and did not star on this one

is The Jazz Man's Blues coming up on Netflix. Tyler, always a pleasure to talk to the laziest

man in show business. How are you, sir? I'm good, Elvis. Did you say it's been 16 years since we've done this?

Since we, yeah, yeah, that's how long it's been since you've done this show.

Let me say, because a mutual friend asked me what I thought of this movie, and I said her,

it's interesting because I think a Jazzman Blues is both a departure for you and kind of

return to what you do best. And I can explain that

because it's a very different kind of drama for you. But it's also, I think what it's about

finally for you and what a lot of your stage plays are about, or about the power and often the

redemptive power of music. Oh, wow. I'm glad you found that perspective in it. Yes.

I think that jazz, just me growing up in New Orleans, it was always a part of my life. So when I started writing this script and the first

characters showed up and told me his name was Bayou, the first thing I heard behind that was jazz. So I'm

glad that you find that in it. But again, it says somebody who's seen your stage

work, when we talked about this before, music is always a part of that. You could feel as a

performer and director how music moved people and making music so much the core of this. I mean,

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