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Now, on to today's episode.

I've got a really special episode planned for you today

and a real special treat, if you don't mind me saying so. My new book, Jazz Improvisation

Made Simple, is going to be available for Kindle, eBook, and physical paperback on Amazon

on March 8th. But as of today, actually as of yesterday, which was Sunday, February 16th,

2020, the e-book, just the e-book is available for pre-order. And so I thought I'd celebrate that as we

lead up to the launch on March 8th by reading two chapters of the book, really the

introduction in chapter one of the book.

So I'm totally going to be just like giving you a sneak preview inside of this book today,

just because I know you're going to get a lot out of it, and I'd love for you to see what's

inside of this.

So really excited to do this.

Let's jump right to it.

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