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# Ardeshir: "The music doesn't owe us anything."
- URL: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/ardeshir-saxophone-ep-120/
- Published: 2025-09-06T21:00:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-07T05:22:27.000Z
- Description: Staying hungry to learn from mentors and friends, confronting the raw truth by recording yourself, & 2010s come-up stories
- Author: Chris Fraser
- Tags: Podcast

On the Rhythm Changes Podcast, **Ardeshir Pourkeramati** talks about meeting your heroes, staying hungry to learn more from mentors and friends in the music, practicing, confronting the raw truth of your playing by recording yourself, stories from coming up in the 2010s scene, and studying at the University of Oregon and the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music.

Ardeshir [plays tonight (Saturday, Sep. 6) at Frankie's](https://frankiesjazzclub.turntabletickets.com/shows/7538/?date=2025-09-06&ref=rhythmchanges.ca) as part of the "Sonny-fest" billed as Vancouver Celebrates Sonny Rollins, where he'll play the music of *Saxophone Colossus*. 

#### Listen to the show wherever you find podcasts, or tap here for links to some places:

- [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/6x3SwjLdXwgoSKESNnhg2R?ref=rhythmchanges.ca)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMETxIhjjlS-ZrqYtTdqVdSSsbyUrr8ae&ref=rhythmchanges.ca)
- [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/rhythm-changes/id1567149723?uo=4&ref=rhythmchanges.ca)
- [Overcast](https://overcast.fm/itunes1567149723/rhythm-changes?ref=rhythmchanges.ca)
- [Amazon Music](https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/55d41ac4-706c-4351-bee9-a61806859424/rhythm-changes?ref=rhythmchanges.ca)
- [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/do9gd8r2?ref=rhythmchanges.ca)
- [Podcast Addict](https://www.podcastaddict.com/podcast/3566176?ref=rhythmchanges.ca)
- [Castbox](https://castbox.fm/channel/id4948733?country=ca&ref=rhythmchanges.ca)