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Now, on to today's episode.

One of the most important things that you can do is

listen to jazz music. And that seems so simple, but literally you are practicing when you listen

to jazz music. You will become a better jazz musician simply by putting on your headphones

or putting them on the speakers and

just listening to how this music actually sounds. So today I'm going to talk about 25 jazz

albums that every jazz musician absolutely needs to know, absolutely needs to listen to. So pay

attention here and let's do this thing.

Okay. listen to. So pay attention here and let's do this thing. All right. What's up everybody?

Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards.

I am a jazz coach.

I'm the director here at Learn Jazz Standards.

And we help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play.

So welcome to another episode of the podcast.

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