Maxwell Chandler

I love jazz because... I was first exposed to jazz.....I was very young walking by a tobacconist's in Berlin. Monk's Four in One song was playing. I heard it coming through open window. It immediately transfixed me. I stood there staring in the direction the music was coming from, occasionally people stopping to see what i was looking at. The next song came on was Coltrane's version Summertime. Both these pieces very different from one another but unlike anything I had ever heard before. It began a lifelong love affair. I met [musician name]...too many to name, pals w/many sustained partially due to my discretion. The best show I ever attended was...Pharoah Sanders solo at Grace Cathedral. B,J Papa's final gig at Original Enrico's in North Beach (back when Maitre D had podium with cat who also "worked" there. He would walk home at end of night with same cat sleepily perched on his shoulder) when he insisted I sit next to him on piano bench for few songs and if not join in playing then sing which I shyly did. The first jazz record I bought was. Thelonious Monk Genuis of Modern Music Vol 2 My advice to new listeners...big ears, explore everything. Now w/all online things easy to do for free. Or whatever else you have in mind. If one feels as if eternally a student or explorer then you are doing something right.