Bob James
Questlove Supreme
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How to Make a Living as a Jazz Artist
In the 80s and 90s, you would just have to buy all the sheet music or wear their fake books out. In my memory, there were fake books that kept getting bigger as a tool. We could look up any song and a similar kind of a fake book thing that we could do. But at that time, I'm reasonably sure that this song was so new that it wouldn't have been in a fake book anyway. Because it just came out.
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