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Getting into jazz.
"IT'S ONLY A PHASE," my mother said. "He'll grow out of it; just see." That was fifty years ago now and I'd just turned sixteen. Up to that point I can remember only the 78s we had of the country classic, "Riders in the Sky", some pop tunes off the radio like Guy Mitchell's "Singin' the Blues" and someone else's "Red Sails in the Sunset". I think there might have been a Winifred Atwell 78 there as well but that was about it. When we moved to microgroove in the early 1950s I can remember a Victor Sylvester 10-inch LP and another by Charlie Kunz, the foxtrot European piano-player. Jazz, I was about to discover, was different.
At this distance, I'm not even sure ...
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