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Qaz Wert

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My Jazz Story

I have always loved jazz since I heard a big band playing over the radio at the age of six or seven. My first jazz album was “Soulville” featuring Ben Webster with the Oscar Peterson trio. I don’t have a favourite musician or band; there are or have been so many great ones. How could one pick a favourite from Ahmad Jamal, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Monty Alexander or Shorty Rogers, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis? (Apologies to the hundreds of jazz musicians omitted.) Mind you, I would have been fascinated to hear how Art Tatum would have fared with modal jazz…