Similar story: I went from punk into electronic music in my 20s, and during the 1990s ended up working in the US with a mall with an amazing record store. Their selection included a lot of music on the Ninja Tune label: 9 Lazy 9, Funki Porcini, Neotropic, etc. and I found myself really really digging their acid jazz stuff. That led me to start listening to some jazz, and as my father was a trumpeter, he had Kind of Blue which he listened to on a regular basis. Between that and Brubeck's Time Out, Time Further Out, etc. I really started getting into the sounds, but jazz for the most part was too "happy". But by that time I was heavy into Monk, Brubeck, Rich, etc. and loving it the more I heard it. It's why I personally ended up doing a darker, doomlike jazz.
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