How a Hobbyist Musician Created a Pro Jazz Album (feat. Christian Schrader)

"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 t...

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