Original Book Soundtrack · Instrumental Jazz

Keeping Your
Day Job
and Your
Day Dream

Kenneth Bryant II

The music your vision has been waiting for. Fourteen tracks composed for the grind, the calling, and everyone brave enough to hold both.

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May 16, 2026
Keeping My Day Job
Album Release
June 16, 2026
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Keeping Your Day Job and Your Day Dream — Album Cover
Lead Single · May 16

"Keeping My
Day Job"

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The lead single sets the tone — a smooth, purposeful instrumental that captures the daily rhythm of a dreamer who refuses to quit. It doesn't ask you to choose between the life you have and the one you were made for. It shows you how to hold both.

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14 Tracks. One Story.

01
Keeping My Day Job (Spoken Word)
feat. Ebony Bryant
02
Keeping My Day Job
feat. Jon-Jon Webb & Rick Watford
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03
I Hear It Too
feat. Jermaine Morgan & Bruce Robinson
04
Work Like a SuperHero
Intro
05
Work Like a SuperHero
feat. Issac West — bass & Hamilton Hardin — saxophone
06
Stay the Course (Interlude #1)
07
Old Times New Memories
feat. Hamilton Hardin — trumpet & Brien Andrews — drums
08
OTNM Interlude
09
Stay the Course (Interlude #2)
10
4-U-Ebony
feat. Bruce Robinson — guitar
11
Some Day (Intro)
12
Some Day (Goodbye Dad)
feat. David Grimsley, Wendell Holmes & Terreon Gully
13
Stay the Course (Interlude #3)
14
Keeping My Daydream
feat. David Kim — guitar
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* All keyboards, organs, strings, brass, synth basses, and auxiliary sounds performed by Kenneth Bryant II. All drums by Maeyo Music unless otherwise indicated. Co-mixed by Kenneth Bryant II & Mayowa Ifah (Maeyo Music). Mastered by Aria Mastering. Produced by Kenneth Bryant II.

The Grind

This Album Almost
Didn't Exist

Around 2006, a hard drive failure wiped the entire original project. Every track. Every session. Gone. What followed wasn't just a restart — it was a rebuilding. From scratch. And life kept moving: marriage, ministry, two master's degrees, a growing career, children. The album never left. It stayed on the burner through all of it — because it was always meant to exist.

Industry renowned producer Jon Webb — KB2's brother and musical mentor, and the person KB2 attributes much of his producing development to — brought KB2 alongside him as a musician and co-producer on several professional sessions. Through that work, KB2 served as a musician, vocal producer, and co-producer, learning the craft from a real master who happened to be his brother. Some of those sessions made it out into the world. Some didn't. But every single one became a classroom. That's where KB2 learned to truly hear music. How to take what lives in the imagination and make it real in the speakers. How to analyze a sound, identify what's wrong, and fix it with precision.

By the time this album came back together, KB2 wasn't just recovering a project. He was a different producer. Twenty years in the making — and worth every minute of the grind.

The Story Behind the Sound

A Soundtrack
for the Grind

In 2019, Kenneth Bryant II published Keeping Your Day Job and Your Day Dream — a book for the builders, the believers, the ones who refuse to let a paycheck kill a purpose.

Now the words have a score. This instrumental jazz album doesn't just illustrate the book — it inhabits it. Each track lives in the emotional space between responsibility and calling, between who you are at 9-to-5 and who you were made to be at midnight.

From the drive of Work Like a SuperHero to the tenderness of 4-U-Ebony, and the deeply personal farewell of Some Day (Goodbye Dad) — this is music that holds your whole story.

"You don't have to choose between the life you have and the life you were made for." Kenneth Bryant II — Keeping Your Day Job and Your Day Dream, 2019
The Original Book

Where It
All Began

Before the music, there was the message. Published in 2019, Keeping Your Day Job and Your Day Dream by Kenneth Bryant II M.Ed., M.A. is a story about pursuing your vision without abandoning your responsibility.

This album is its soundtrack. Every note was composed to accompany the journey the book describes — the tension, the hope, the grind, and the grace of keeping both alive.

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A conversation about the book, the album, and what it really means to keep your day job and your day dream.

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A father's birthday. A son's tribute. Music for everyone in between.

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