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Now, on to today's episode.

This is the Learned Jazz Standards podcast, episode

121. Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, and advice

for becoming a better jazz musician. And now your host, he's a jazz musician, author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.

All right. What's up? My name is Brent. I am the jazz musician behind the website,

learn jazz standards.com, which is a blog, a podcast, and videos all geared towards helping

you become a better jazz musician. Hey, I want to thank you if you're a regular listener.

I appreciate you listening week after week. And for those of you who are listening for the first

time, a special warm welcome, you're in the right place if you want to become a better jazz musician.

And you want to join all of us in our journeys to working on that, to becoming better musicians

in general, but understanding

jazz and how it works.

And I'm going to help you do that today.

I have an episode planned for you.

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