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Now, on to today's episode.

Listening to jazz is one of the best ways that you can

improve your jazz playing without even touching your instrument and actually retain material

so that it becomes exponentially easier to play when you actually do pick up your instrument.

So I want to talk about some plans for listening to jazz if your intention

is to retain and ingrain musical information. Let's do this thing.

Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, and

advice for becoming a better jazz musician. now your host he's a jazz musician

author and entrepreneur brent bartstra what's up everybody brent here from learn jazz standards

where we help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve

no matter what instrument you play really excited to be back here on the podcast

today. So thank you so much for listening. Do appreciate you. One of a important discussion with

you today. And that is around the idea of listening to jazz for the purposes of ingraining that

information so that it makes it exponentially more easy to play on your

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