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Now, on to today's episode.

This is the Learned Jazz Standards podcast,

episode 99. 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 oh man that's right

this is episode 99 which means that next week is episode 100 which i'm super stoked about

i'm so excited about this we're going to be hitting the big one zero zero episode of the Learned

Jazz Standards podcast. I mean, this is incredible. By the way, my name is Brent. I'm the jazz

musician behind the website, learn jazz standards.com, which is a blog and a podcast, all

geared towards helping you become a better jazz musician. And, you know, this is a really big

deal for me coming up to episode 100 and going into our birthday month, actually in February, our birthday episode is 104. Uh, because, you know, this is really a big deal for me coming up to episode 100 and going into our birthday month, actually in February, our birthday episode is 104. Because, you know, I almost didn't start this podcast. You know, a couple years ago, you know, we had the blog that had been going on for a long time was doing it was successful in our YouTube channel that we had, you know, a long time ago posted a bunch of playalongs on there And that became really popular. But, you know, Justin, the guy that does all the tech for Learn Jazz standards and some planning and stuff, he said, man, you should start a podcast. And at first I was really like, you know, I don't know, I don't know if I want to do that. I don't take the time, all the effort and the energy that's going to take. But he convinced me to do I tried it and now we have, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of listeners

listening. energy that's going to take. But he convinced me to do it. I tried it. And now we have,

you know, thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of listeners listening to this show

every single week. And I want to thank you for listening and you made all this possible. And I'm

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