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All right, picture this. You're at your jazz gig.

Your bandmates are there. Everybody is set up. Everybody's ready to play. And right before you're

about to start, someone asks, well, what tune are we going to play first? And dead silence

comes over all the other bandmates. No one really knows which tune to play. It takes a while

to come up with one. You play the first tune and then dead silence again. What tune do we play next?

Or perhaps you do start coming out with tunes and calling tunes and even though it takes some time

to come across them, you notice that everything sounds the same, right? It gets boring for you,

gets boring for the audience, and in general, it just kind of lowers the quality of the gig and

the performance. Well, my friend, that is exactly why you need a killer set list for your jazz

gig that actually has variety, that actually is interesting to the audience and is interesting to you.

That's exactly what we're going to talk about in this podcast.

I'm going to go over some guidelines and give you a seven-song set list to consider.

Let's do this thing.

Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories stories and advice for becoming a better jazz

musician and now your host he's a jazz musician author and entrepreneur brent bartstra

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