I loved concert band when I was growing up and got into Guaraldi, G. Washington and Spyro Gyra. Then for whatever reason, my mom bought a Quiet Riot, Kiss Paul Stanley solo album and an Iron Maiden single ( the Tull cover, Cross Eyed Mary) and it was all heavy metal throughout my teens (Black Sabbath was one of my favs). But when I turned twenty, I got a job in a bookstore and they played a lot of jazz, and one of the first disks I heard was Guaraldi's Impressions of a Black Orpheus and then Coltrane's Sound and then I was hooked. Since then, its been about 90% jazz w/ classical and rock mixed in (huge 311 fan) and some other stuff. But man, I love jazz and I'm pretty sure its not a fad -_-