I sometimes reflect upon whether the majority of our members who are domiciled in America ever wonder how those in other countries came to be involved in the jazz music phenomenon indigenous to the USA. I can only relate this question to my own experience. Such thoughts crystallised when I read with great interest the report in the February 2008 Journal written by Dieter Salemann of his indoctrination in post-war Berlin. My own initiation in jazz goes back a bit further.

In the 20s and 30s my parents both played the piano and encouraged me to have lessons, an offer which I resolutely refused, now much to my regret. Our instrument was a pianola (player piano) and I was encouraged to pump the ...

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