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As the second installment of A Place For Jazz's fall concert series, pianist extraordinaire Otmaro Ruiz brought his amazing quartet to the First Unitarian…

"That's a good question."The first record that I actually listened to was 'Abbey Road' because my parents had it. And the second was probably 'American…

NAME: Lori Friday BAND AFFILIATION: Super 400 INSTRUMENT: Bass Guitar1. THE FIRST ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS ... "Hot Rocks," the Rolling Stones. The…

"Well, my dad was a huge country music fan, and he always had quite an album collection of country music. So I didn't have to buy albums by Merle Haggard and…

"The first album I ever bought? Hmmm, it was probably a B.B. King album. Either a B.B. King or a Muddy Waters album."You know, when albums first came out,…

"It was the Everly Brothers. It was called 'The Best of the Everly Brothers,' and I still have it."It's a great record."Arlo Guthrie will team up with…

"I got a couple of them. I got 'Pearl,' the Janis Joplin record, and I bought 'Bringing It All Back Home.' That was after I heard 'Nashville Skyline,' which my…

"It was 'You Wear It Well' by Rod Stewart. I had just gotten a job in a hardware store, which had a record store downstairs. I took my wages from the hardware…

"Yeah, it was Elvis.I can't remember what the title of the album was, but I know that you'd recognize it if you saw it. It was the one that had kind of…

“You see, I grew up during the depression, and we had strict orders that if you bought a record, make sure the whole family likes it or else don’t bring it…

"When I was growing up, we had some 45s and 78s around the house of Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers, and I used to play them all the…

"Oh, I've been listening to records since before I can even remember. I know that one early album I bought was a Nat Cole album, but I don't really have a…