Hi, you're listening to the Music That Matters podcast, where each week a KXP DJ brings you an exclusive mix of their favorite new music.

Today, that is me. I am Derek Mazzoni, the host of Wopop on Kexp, which you can be found in Seattle at 90.3 FM every Tuesday night from 6 to 9 p.m.

Worldwide at KXB.org or on the Kexp app on the mobile

device of your choice. So a couple of things that come up when people learn who I am and what I do.

The one big question that comes up is where do I find the music that I play?

Now, this doesn't really happen if you're playing hits or classics, but when I find out what I do and they know a little bit about my show, the question does come up.

How do you find your music?

There are many ways, but one that always helps is the APAP Winter Jazz Global Fest trifecta that I'm lucky enough to

attend to every January in New York City. Each year, the various crews that put these showcases

together does an outstanding job of getting emerging artists seen and heard by prospective

bookers, agents, and managers.

But this is important because they're in New York specifically to be discovered, quote unquote,

so that booking agents that need to fill their stages all over North America figure out what their calendar is,

and of course they want to find the most interesting thought-provoking

powerful artists they can so hence that's why they're there it's an amazing opportunity to be

discovered in that space now out of this synergy of apap the association of performing arts professionals

winter jazz was born it's an opportunity for jazz

or jazzy artists to also get booked and out of that Global Fest also came out where global

artists have an opportunity to get booked. So this was my experience. I got to New York City

on a blistery cold Wednesday afternoon,

settled into my Airbnb, and went to catch my first shows at Winter Jazz.

Now, jazz has gotten more international,

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