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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. Hey, everybody. My name is Brent, and you're listening to the LJS podcast episode number five, where today I've got two incredibly special guests joining me on the show today.

We've got bassist Wallace Stelzer and drummer Diego Maldonado.

Both of these guys are two of my favorite jazz musicians to play with in New York City, and I'm so happy to have them on the show.

We have a great discussion in store for you, so you're going to want to hear all this.

We're going to be talking about an assortment of things, such as how to play well with others, playing in a jazz group and doing that well. We've got some gig

etiquette tips for you, some practice tips for you. So you're going to want to stick around for this.

And all the music today on the show is by Wallace Stelzer and his band International Pat Down

from his album First Flight. So if you want to check out that music and you like the music, you want to buy the album,

go to cdbaby.com and just type in International Pat Down and you'll find that album there.

And we also have an incredibly, incredibly awesome treat for you at the end of the show today.

We have an exclusive track from Diego Maldonado's new EP

that's coming up.

And you're gonna wanna hear that we,

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