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When Jim Ketch founded the Carolina Jazz Festival 40 years ago as a small Music Department event, the goal was to give his students a chance to rub shoulders with professional musicians. In the decades that followed, the festival morphed into a much larger event, inspiring not just Carolina students but high schoolers from across the state. This year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Carolina Jazz Festival from Feb. 15 to 18. In this week's episode, we talk about the history of the Carolina Jazz Festival and the upcoming 40th anniversary of the event with Ketch, a music professor and the director of jazz studies at Carolina.