I'm Adam Manus.

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Sponsored by Open Studio. That's right. So today we're going to talk about something that I didn't even

totally know existed in the jazz world. Yeah, this was kind of a hairbrain idea. I was trying to think of a nice list of seven

of people that we might not hit upon a lot.

I mean, looking at our list here, we actually do hit upon these musicians quite a bit.

But it was seven of our favorite jazz influencers.

I almost named the seven of our favorite jazz, quote, artists.

The idea was this is a list of musicians who maybe aren't, you know,

a virtuoso on their instrument, art Tatum or someone like that, but have influenced the genre

of jazz with either their arrangements or their vision or their band leading, something like

that that really change sort of the flow of the music, maybe their cultural influence. So, you know, I have some suggestions here. Maybe their Instagram follower account. Well, we're not going to. This is pre that, right? No, definitely. I'm a little confused because I'm looking at the list for the first time, to be honest with you, because we like keep things spontaneous here.

That's right.

That's right. But you're saying that these aren't, I'm looking at a list of pretty much seven virtuosos. I know. I know. Well, that's the thing. Yeah. So it's like a hybrid. These are people who are who are beyond the playing. Beyond the bandstand. Beyond the bandstand.

That's a great, that's a great thing.

They really push.

Influencers beyond the bandstand.

Yeah, I'm actually going gonna change one of these here

oh okay i like it well no this is good i think i think i got it out so these are our seven favorite

jazz influencers yep beyond the bandstand beyond the bandstand yeah sounds good you want me to kick it off

you kick it off okay number one uh off. Okay, number one, Duke Ellington.

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