My guest today is Justin Stanton. Justin is an amazing trumpeter, keyboard player, composer, and producer. Justin primarily performs, records and tours with Snarky Puppy, Huntertones, and Banda Magda. Although you can find him collaborating with his "puppies", Mike “Maz” Maher, Chris Bullock or Robert ‘Sput’ Searight on their original projects. Justin humbly shares his growth as he built inner confidence and deep gratitude for the challenges inherent in the music business. He has traveled the world, been to every continent, except Antarctica and shares how blown away he was by a recent trip to Morocco. During this festival, Justin experienced a different kind of music collaboration, which meant letting go of preconceived notions and staying open, curious and engaged. Justin’s long awaited solo debut album “Secret Place” was released on May 3rd, 2019 and the next night Justin had a celebratory live performance of his album at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC. I invite you to purchase this creative, soulful record!!!  Check out the links below to do so, see a music video of his song “What Do You Want?” as well as a cool partially-animated music video of the song he wrote “Bad Kids to the Back” for Snarky Puppy’s newest album "Immigrance". I encourage you to experience Justin’s awesome talent live!! Enjoy the podcast. Links: FB: justinmstanton IG: @justinstanton TW: @ _justinstanton Video: For a song Justin wrote for Snarky Puppy’s newest album "Immigrance" called “Bad Kids in the Back”  Video: "What Do You Want?", featuring Melanie Watson, from Justin's latest album Snarky Puppy Ground Up Music