This is a perfect record.

I could really just end this post there to be honest. This was was a gift from friends and is on regular rotation in our house.

I played piano and clarinet growing up. I wanted to play saxophone in the school band but there weren't many spots. I had quite old fashioned and conservative music teachers and I lost interest in playing instruments towards the end of highschool. I tried to teach myself things I was listening to but found it hard with my tiny hands which doesn't help. I don't know why they thought clarinet would be good for me haha.

Skip forward to my early uni days. A lot of my friends were studying music or involved in bands. Some were heavily involved in the jazz scene. I'd go to shows or they would play me jazz records but nothing clicked. Over the years I thought Jazz was not for me. That it was one of the few genres I couldn't enjoy despite liking a lot of music.

Many years later a culmination of multiple events - more curiosity about different music, being exposed to different types of jazz and this gift just blew all the misconceptions I had about Jazz.

I'm reading the Neneh Cherry memoir currently and it opens with her listening to this album whilst cooking. She talks about how music makes her life bigger, richer, and deeper. I couldn't agree more, and this is what listening to jazz has done for me.

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