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# Jazz Office Hours
- URL: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/jazz-office-hours/
- Published: 2022-07-07T13:00:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-10T22:22:00.000Z
- Description: Episode 1 with Cory Weeds and I as co-hosts out today
- Author: Will Chernoff
- Tags: Free Weekly

Today, Cory Weeds and I released episode 1 of our new podcast, [**Jazz Office Hours**](https://www.jazzofficehours.com/?ref=rhythmchanges.ca). 

I hinted at this day's arrival in [Reflections on one year of podcasting](https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/one-year-podcasting/), where you hear how how bad I've been at producing episodes.

Thank you to those who submitted questions; I actually have enough on-hand for at least the next two episodes already.

Here's what is guiding me while I produce Jazz Office Hours from here on. It's one question in particular, which is a bit of a red herring but sure helps me focus:

## Who are the 'competitors' for Jazz Office Hours?

Well, there are **jazz education shows**, and then there are **music business shows**.

### Jazz education shows: examples

- [**Open Studio**](https://www.youtube.com/c/OpenStudioJazz?ref=rhythmchanges.ca). The St. Louis-based outlet's co-hosted show **focuses on learning to play the music itself** much more than the professional side.
- [**Nick Finzer**](https://www.youtube.com/c/NickFinzer?ref=rhythmchanges.ca). Nick is on the trombone faculty at North Texas. He does it solo and his **most successful content is about playing trombone**.
- [**Jazz Composers Present**](https://www.youtube.com/c/JazzComposersPresent?ref=rhythmchanges.ca). This Canadian outlet is **interview-driven and offers composition tips**, as the name suggests.

### Music business shows: examples

- [**Jesse Cannon**](https://www.youtube.com/c/Musformation?ref=rhythmchanges.ca). Probably the most relevant business channel on YouTube today. If you ever see a young artist using a service called Koji, that's Jesse's main sponsor.
- [**Damian Keyes**](https://www.youtube.com/c/DamianKeyes?ref=rhythmchanges.ca). His channel was once an up-and-coming, generous advice show, but it's been a bit sad to see it get optimized to death for clicks & upsells to his membership.
- [**Burstimo**](https://www.youtube.com/c/Burstimo?ref=rhythmchanges.ca). An in-depth, co-hosted channel that brings you behind the curtain of the pop music industry's elite.

So, for the jazz education channels, I highlighted the different ways that **the established shows primarily cover the *musical* education side.**

And what I want to tell you about the out-and-out music business shows is **their advice isn't relevant unless you make pop music**. Sure, they cover basic stuff like how to use a digital distributor – but beyond that, it's very clear that they're speaking to *not us*, so to speak.

### Escaping competition by integrating the two types

Therefore, the goal of Jazz Office Hours is to cut through the middle of these two types of shows:

1. Cory and I can tape a podcast that consistently sounds good, and have fun doing it
2. From our jazz backgrounds, we'll discuss **the professional side of music, with a learner's / educational mindset**
3. This will entertain and inform certain listeners who weren't a good match for either of the established two types of shows

We'd be drifting a bit if we started to talk a lot about learning to play jazz or about the 101-level digital music topics that all music business channels cover (and that universities probably pass off as a whole course syllabus). You can already find that content elsewhere.

Competition is a red herring. Being "the only" – no matter how niche – is what you want to [strive for](https://www.amazon.ca/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296?ref=rhythmchanges.ca), because if we all do that, then there's room for everyone.