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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the podcast where I'm answering your jazz and music related questions five days a week to help you become a better jazz musician to shorten the learning curve and have more fun than ever playing music. Today's question is a great question, and it comes from Jeff Ellermeyer.

Let's take a listen.

Who's the first person that we consider a jazz artist?

And happy New Year from Palm Springs, California.

Who, Jeff, I could use a little bit of Palm Springs right now, because it's a little cold over

here in New York.

What a good question. Who is the first jazz musician ever? Well, unfortunately, the answer to that

question isn't so clear. But I do love the intent of your question because the history of jazz music

is really important to understand and dive

into if you're interested in becoming a jazz musician or getting better at playing jazz

for whatever reasons you might be trying to do it it's a great idea to understand jazz from

its early days early jazz we call it dixieland to the swing era era, to the B-Bop era, to the post-bop era,

to the free jazz, to fusion, and to the modern jazz era. Just understanding all of this and

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