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Why I was almost (and maybe should have been) thrown out of a jazz band during a wedding.

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Adam Nathan
Jan 15, 2023
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With the exception of the last song on the last day we ever played together - which we'll come to - my experience of being in a jazz band was a parade of humiliations.

My musical problem - one of my musical problems - is that I can only remember four bars at any one time. Once I learn the next four bars of that same song or any other, the musical buffer…

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