Bruce Dickinson

I was first exposed to jazz through my sister and Yoshi Ikeba of Yoshi’s Restaurant & Jazz Club. My sister Julie worked as a manager at Tower Records in Berkeley and was living in a shared house in the Elmwood area of Berkeley with jazz collector extraordinaire Berry (Berrigan’s Records on Claremont Ave.). She also was assistant manager for the Berkeley Jazz festival from 1977- 1982 working with Gregg Perloff before he rose to fame at Bill Graham Presents. I met many musicians while working for my sister Julie at the Berkeley Jazz Festival in the late 1970’s. Al Jarreau, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Joe Pass, Ron Carter, Bobby Hutcherson, Cal Tjader, Dexter Gordon (his return from Europe to the USA, Billy Harper (Black Saint), Michael Franks, Betty Carter, John McLaughlin and Peter Apfelbaum. The best show I ever attended was really hard to say. Too many great shows/artists. The first jazz record I bought was Miles Davis, “Kinda Blue”