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here was a period in which I was a sponge, absorbing a lot of music and formulating in my own head whether I really wanted to be a bass player. I was encountering all kinds of stuff: Afro-Cuban and straight-ahead jazz, of course, and then the funk music that was coming out at the time, which I was listening to with my homies. Most of these tracks were instrumental in

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