Who was your first

Ken Burn's Jazz documentary is the most recent and definitive accounting of the history of Jazz, is it not?

I am always amused at the writings of Ken Burns and Leonard Feather as well. Both are for the novice to learn about jazz, but no one has ever written a complete definitive accounting and if anyone does, no one will publish and if it is published, the lawyers will have a field day with it in court. About twenty years ago I started just such a project from an insider point of view. However family counsel as well as outside counsel, after they had read what was the rough draft, was advised not to proceed further.

So do read the Ken Burns and Leonard Feather documentary on jazz and be happy with that. It is in my opinion the best we have for now and I do respect them for their effort.

My parents have always had great taste in music and that certainly extended to the Jazz they listened to. I must have been four or five when "Song for My Father" came out and was placed on heavy rotation on the old Garrard. Joe Henderson's tenor solo on the title cut is still one of my absolute favorites.

Bill Evans. Eva Cassidy.

Frank Zappa's pieces "Twenty small cigars" and "Blessed Relief"...and then, Coltrane's "A Love Supreme"