Hi, folks, Adam Mattis here, and today on the You'll Hear at podcast, it's a very special episode.

We are taking a little break from new episodes

this week and we're airing some best ofs. And today's best of is on culture. It's on the culture

of jazz and the community of jazz. And we hope you enjoy it. We've been having fun with these

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today's episode on culture.

Peter, should you worry about the jazz police?

No. And do we think that anyone should worry about the jazz police?

No.

Okay. So we could end it there, but let's just, let's just unpack, as they like to say,

this concept a little bit. First of all, the Jazz Police, as I know it, can appear at any time.

They're like the FBI and the CIA and the KGB all wrapped into one.

They're always undercover.

They're always undercover. But once they rear their ugly heads, you'll be able to identify that.

Yeah.

But, I mean, basically, the jazz police are people that say jazz is this.

Jazz has to be played in this in X way.

And this isn't jazz if it sounds like why.

And I think, you know, for me, it really just goes against the creative and boundless

and fenceless nature of the music to even be thinking in those ways. I totally agree. If you are

always worried about what, you know, some kind of nameless, faceless entity that decides what

isn't anything, you're never going to make good music. What you want to do is take in

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