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Who was your first

What was the first jazz artist that got you hooked on jazz? I was in a high end audio store and the salesperson put on Dianna Krall All or nothing at all on a pair of B&W's and ever since then I was hooked. And that is what led me down this never ending audio addiction.
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newbee
4,751 posts
 
Not sure whether it was Bill Evan's (Trio) Debbie, or Oscar Peterson's (Trio) We Get Requests. In either event it was a great place to start and has anchored a lot of my jazz preferences.
rello
311 posts
 
More Jazz Fusion than JAZZ but for me it was Pat Metheny and Jean Luc Ponty back in high school.
oem
91 posts
 
I think it was 1960.I heard Maynard Ferguson's rendition of My Funny Valentine.He hit notes that very few others could. After listening to Maynard play I wanted to go back and listen to anyone else that recorded this masterpiece.That was just about everyone and i've been hooked on Jazz ever since
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ejlif
1,366 posts
 
Miles Davis' in a silent way. A friend put it on a tape for me. I probably played that tape 100 times.
casey33
260 posts
 
Charlie Parker.The Yardbird the best then,the best now.
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