THE MUSIC THAT SHAPED ME

JAZZ ROCK CLASSICAL HIP HOP AND R&B

Part 1 of 4 – JAZZ

So looking back as far as you can remember and recalling the music that shaped you, that influenced you, that brings you to the music that you listen to or play now, what and who were they?

Mine are a varied and different mix of likely and unlikely suspects.  Here I give you my major artist influences.  The one stipulation was that I wanted to have a video of my choices.  Of course this is by far not the full list. There are so many more I can’t include due to spacial constraints or availability of videos.

Because I’m such a musical person I could not in all honesty do this in one sitting so I decided to split this blog into 4 genres (jazz, 
Rock, Classical and Hip Hop/R&B).  There are other genres and sub genres mixed up in those but those are the main ones. The other genres will be posted later in separate blogs.

The videos and specific songs I’ve chosen are just examples of the music from each artist and what I could find really quick.
Please excuse the sound and video quality on some of these.

So here is Part 1, my JAZZ artist influences.

What’s yours?