Who was your first

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"

Dave Brubeck was the first jazz I heard on my parents' stereo. It was the only jazz album they had as far as I know. I must have played the record (Time Out) 5 times the first day I heard it, and that many times a day for the next week. Guess I broke the '24hr rule.'

bill evans at the village vanguard
i must have listened to jazz for over a decade before i really thought of it as a genre. as a child i suppose i thought jazz was dixie land rags. i probably had to hear gracan moncur III or eric dolphy before i knew what i was listening to was jazz.i listened to music i found difficult and unlikeable to my tastes. now they are basically my tastes.i love jazz. i started by accident and effort with bill evans, sunday at the village vanguard. 6/25/61. i can't even get the date out of my head!