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      <image:caption>Canadian jazz-guitarist Ed Bickert. What a life full of music can be. Photo: cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/remembering-canadian-jazz-great-ed-bickert-1.5111657</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>David Liebman, jazz saxophonist and educator. Photo: https://www.dacapo-records.dk/en/artists/david-liebman</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From top-left, clockwise: Jimi Hendrix, Ben Monder, Tosin Abasi, &amp; Allan Holdsworth. Some personal heroes of mine.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>About to purchase my first “real” guitar in 2005 - Gibson SG Standard Photo credit: My Dad</image:caption>
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