Who was your first

Pharoah Sanders "Live at the East" in 1974. Still a great record, never made it to CD. Many many fans have never heard it.

John Klemmer-Straight From the Heart-late 80's

Oscar Peterson. I saw him playing in a studio with his trio on educational TV. After that it was Stan Getz etc.

Vince Guiraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas." I was six. Thirty some odd years later, I listened to a discussion on the making of "Kind of Blue" and was impressed. I've slowly built a collection from there.

Interesting thread. Back when all I listened to was mind bending rock like Hendrix, King Crimson and Procul Harum I bought Miles Davis Bitches Brew for the cover art. Man was I disappointed; it sounded like incomprehensible, unmusical noise. A short while later by a lucky coincidence I heard the McCoy Tyner album Trident and several by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. I've been hooked ever since. 30 years later Bitches Brew sounds out-of-this-world marvelous but hey, that's not really jazz, it's that more mainstream, stepchild fusion music, haha.