It's LA guys. As an LA jazz musician I've talked about this before. There's probably a hundred thousand or more experienced, educated jazz players around here. The ones who are actually making a living are not doing it by playing in clubs. They're in the studios. There's a great little dinner place up in Studio City where top people play just to get their act together while recording their latest album. I don't know how much they make but I've been told not much considering who they are. It's just a paid rehearsal to help gauge crowd reaction just like Jay Leno does every month at the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach. Ordinary average good players like me and my friends can't compete with that and all that leaves are the small local places that pay squat because they don't have to. They're hit up daily by people wanting to play.

Bob

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