Dylan remembered Jon Brookes coming up to them at a gig and saying that he liked their music.

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He recorded music he liked with performers he liked, and he kept an ear out for the generation that was coming up behind him.

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He liked trad jazz -- aka Dixieland, the dominant style of dance music in Britain at the time -- until he discovered the saxophonist Charlie Parker.

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"I liked doing music that I wasn't so familiar with, " he says.

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