When I was a kid, listened to a lot of my parents broadway musical albums and tin pan alley stuff. Listened to a lot of rock of course, particularly the Stones and didn't know it at the time but that's when I started to like the Blues. Gravitated to a lot of Blues, particularly in the 80s, which eventually led to Jazz. I started listening to some Duke, more classical trad stuff and then one day I decided to get bolder and picked up the RVG of Moanin. It was like my brain exploded. Had never heard anything like that more and started exploring, broadening my horizons, found the old BN Forum and here we are