Um, okay, you want to do this question about, um, oh, let's talk about this for a second um because joe brosso brought up

billy child's lyric that record and if i know a lot of you are probably on this but maybe some of

you weren't i got to tell you and we haven't even really talked about it yet but i think that well

first of all a little backstory we presented a master class at Open Studio last Friday.

Adam moderated and presented Billy Childs, who is just a fantastic.

He's very unique, I would say, in the jazz world.

Because he really comes from a classical and a jazz background.

But actually, he comes from, you know, like an L.A. music background, a very eclectic music background

in terms of like rock and funk and fusion and R&B.

But I think classical and jazz are sort of the things that he's known most for.

But a lot of people up until not that long ago didn't necessarily know a lot about his

classical kind of compositions. And I shouldn't even say classical because he does, he's not a classical composer. He's not a jazz composer. He's just, he's a very individualistic writer that's able to, to funnel in, like, he loves Paul Hindemith and he loves, you know, monk, but he loves like Crosby, Stills and Nash. And he has all these different influences like many of us, but he's able to have this kind of singular voice. And, you know, he's arranged for some of the biggest artists since the 70s and written stuff. And now, now, over the last 10, 15, 20 years, he's really had some great opportunities to present, I think, what his vision of his music is.

And it's such a great amalgamation of these influences and of his experience. I mean, he played with Freddie Hubbard for years when he was young. And he used to be the guy that was like, you know, back when touring was like, oh, we're going to the West Coast. I'm going to the West Coast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A rhythm section. You pick ups, yeah. You pick up Billy Childs and I can't like

Dwayne Dolphin and just various L.A. cats, you know.

But anyway,

but I digress.

I regress.

No.

Oh, yeah.

So we did the master class.

And he did it,

we did a kind of composition style. it was just so cool man he was so he was

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