I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the '80s and '90s.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
I was exposed to jazz early on.
And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.
I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.
When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.
I was totally into jazz in my teens.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.