Excerpted from Jazz on the Air

"60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley talks about his love for jazz.

Radio Days

A longtime correspondent on CBS' "60 Minutes," journalist Ed Bradley is a household name. But fans of jazz and public radio know he has a double life. For the past five years, Bradley has hosted NPR's Peabody Award-winning "Jazz From Lincoln Center," a mix of live Jazz at Lincoln Center concert recordings, historic clips, interviews, and narration.

What was your first contact with jazz?

BRADLEY: It was indirect, as a child. ... My father was in the vending machine business, and I used to spend my summers with him in Detroit going around to the different places where he had jukeboxes, changing records. There were always jazz singles on the jukebox. But it was always my father's music, not my music. I was more involved in rhythm and blues, those '50s groups like the Ravens, the Orioles, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. And then I heard an album in either '55 or '56 -- Erroll Garner's Concert by the Sea. For me, that was my Rosetta Stone, because when I heard that, something clicked, and I got it. When I heard "Teach Me Tonight" -- and I knew it as a vocal -- I could see what he did with that melody and how he played around it, on top of it, through it, and all of a sudden I understood better than I ever had before what jazz was. I got it in my heart. ...