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Podcast: Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Episode: How a Hobbyist Musician Created a Pro Jazz Album (feat. Christian Schrader)
Description: "Music and the opportunity for music is all around us. And you can find inspiration in conversation or just the rhythm of something happening around you. And so I would just take these snippets, get home, and say, what can I do with this? And I would start to sing a melody around those words and think about what the story could be that surrounds those words."That was Christian Schrader, a self-described hobbyist musician who recently created a pro jazz album. He described this as one of the biggest musical accomplishments of his entire...