Hey there, vinyl fans. Before we get in today's episode, I just want to make an announcement that we are now on Facebook. The Vinyl Guide is now on Facebook.

Open up your browsers, Facebook.com slash vinyl guide. There you'll see lots of videos and links and stories and dialogue that goes along with this episode, plus a whole lot more. I'm posting all sorts of stuff

I just can't get around to talking about. So anyway, make sure you go to Facebook.com slash

vinyl guide, like the page, follow the feed, and participate where you can. With that said,

on with the show. Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. Welcome to The Vinyl Guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself. Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. Well, hello there, everyone. This is Nate, the Vinyl Guide, here with yet another episode where we're going to talk about vinyl and records

and all sorts of stuff in between, telling some stories about some of the music that we have

now, some of the music that we love, and perhaps even opening one another up into some music

that we haven't heard before. Now, before we get in today's topic, I want to quickly give a shout out to everyone

who's been listening and forwarding the URL and the podcast to all their friends. Our

subscribership keeps going up. I really appreciate the energy that you guys put into it and all the

notes that you guys send. Much, much, much appreciated. A quick reminder, you could always

send me an email, Nate, N-A-T-E-A-T-E-A-T-E at thevinylgide.com

or tag me or follow me in Instagram at Vinyl Guide.

Now today's episode is about an unlikely hero, an incredible tale of two musicians who met and made some recordings that only by sheer luck are we still able to enjoy today.

Now, in order to tell the story properly, I'm going to have to lay the foundation of various parts of the story, a little bit of background information, I guess. I'll try to sum up a brief history of jazz,

just so we're all on the same page. However, look, please note, I'm going to be making some huge leaps and generalizations. Quite frankly, Ken Burns, he put out a remarkable 19-hour video documentary on the history of jazz.

And people still bug him for not going into enough detail.

Look, that's typical jazz fan, though.

I rarely meet casual jazz fan.

They're typically in depth.

They are in it for life. They don't do things halfway.

It's both attractive and scary, I guess. Look, but I got to start somewhere.

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