I might learn to play Jazz

I have a new friend that needs a keyboard player to accompany him while he plays the saxophone. He has two degrees in music and he'll be teaching me keyboard from scratch. I hope it works out I enjoy all types of music like experimental, electronic, folk, new age, etc. And when I asked him where jazz came from he said it came from Blues and Dixieland. When I was younger I used to listen to Dixieland all day on the radio, so needless to say I'm pretty excited about this.

Thanks for the reply, my internet was down during Hurricane Sandy so that's why it has taken me a while to reply.

Anyway, Thanks the replies

To Ken: So far I've been listening to Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, and Sun Ra among other popular ones.

To Al Stevens: Could you recommend a beginners booklet, I'm learning the chords at the moment and how to write them on paper. So any beginner stuff would be helpful. I have a friend with two music degrees teaching me on his spare time, but I haven't seen him in a while so I would like to learn on my own as well.

Ken said:

Cecil Taylor is, too.

One of my favorite piano performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2XH1rGBq8E

youtube: "HOROWITZ TRANSCRIPTION of MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (1947)"
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Yours are pretty good as well, thanks for sharing them.