# Okay, I'm ready to call myself a classic jazz buff

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 31, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-im-ready-to-call-myself-a-classic-jazz-buff/569650 "2011-01-31T14:48:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-im-ready-to-call-myself-a-classic-jazz-buff/569650/1 "2011-01-31T14:48:01Z")

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Got the iPod on shuffle this morning. Song came up that I don’t recall ever having heard before, thought “sounds like Duke Ellington” – checked, yup, Duke Ellington. “Work Song.”

Damn I’m good.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-im-ready-to-call-myself-a-classic-jazz-buff/569650/2 "2011-01-31T14:55:16Z")

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Very cool; good on ya.

I enjoy stuff like that - just the other day a friend popped in a song by an artist I had never heard - Walking with Mario by Jessie Cook, I think. I was listening and remarked how the nylon string flamenco-ish work was cool, but it sounded like he was using a flatpick for some parts so I wanted to see how he did it. I found him on Youtube and sure enough, he uses a nylon acoustic-electric, playing it flamenco style with his fingers, then grabbing a pick and flatpicking single note lines. A definite “damn, I’m good” moment 😉