Shortly after Charlie Puth took the stage for the first of his four-night residency at Los Angeles’ freshly-opened Blue Note, he shared his intentions with those in attendance and the thousands watching on a TikTok livestream. “We’re going to play these songs in the original way that I concocted them in my head,” he said. “Whenever I write anything, it comes from a jazz perspective, because I love jazz so much.” (He accented those last words with chameleonic jazz chords to drive the point.) “You can only put so much into a pop song, but you can trick the listener into appreciating jazz-isms in your pop music, which is
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