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An upside of having this project taking much, much longer than ever anticipated is being able to revisit some of the subjects of the doc that you saw back in the beginning to see what has happened to them. Well this picture represents this upside about as good as one could want. The top picture is of what was called the "U. City Young Jazz Lions" at the very first U. City Jazz Festival in Heman Park in September of 2011, put on and organized by U. City musicians Rob and Mike Silverman. These 5 "kids" had been playing together for years already and were sitll in high school. From left to right we have Ben Arronberg-Piano (St. Louis University High School c/o 2012), Albert Marshall-Bass (UCHS c/o 2012), Sam Katz-Saxaphone (UCHS c/o 2012), Joey Ferber-Gituar (UCHS c/o 2012), & Zach Morrow-Drums (UCHS c/o 2013). On the bottom, we have the very same group of "kids" but just about 6 years later. This shot was taken after they and the rest of their jazz/hip-hop fusion collective "LOOPRAT" finished performing at "The 'Burbs - Music & Arts Fest" at the Chesterfield Ampitheater in August of 2017. Most of the rest of LOOPRAT are U. City graduates as well, Nate King (UCHS c/o 2012), William Berkowitz (UCHS c/o 2014), Alex Yentumi (UCHS c/o 2012), and we have another picture of the whole group and in action on stage at "The 'Burbs".