innes said:*I can't stand Jazz, and I would think that Jazz is one type of music
that you either love or hate, which isn't good. *
The only reason people hate jazz is because they don't understand it.
People don't want to spend the time to decode the the music, so they
dismiss it and go to 3 chords repeated over and over wich is easier to
listen to because you don't have to understand it, it's just there, a
repeating loop full of nothing.
Plus, there are so many forms of Jazz. You can't put a blanket statement
over all of them and dismiss them all at once. You have to hear every
era, every artist, and every form of jazz before you can say you hate
it.
Here is a short list of items you should listen to before saying you
hate jazz:
Giant Steps, John Coltrane
Kind of Blue (the whole album), Miles Davis
A kiss to Build a Dream on (and others), Louis Armstrong
Strange Fruit, Billy Holiday
5th House and Syeeda's Song Flute, both by Coltrane
any Roland Kirk,
Epistrophy, Thelonious Monk
There are sooo many others, and I didn't list any contemporary artists.
Please look into a couple of these, and don't just listen once, listen a
couple of times, then put them away, and after a while, you'll want to
listen again and you'll hear things you missed and you'll start to love
them all. Well, that's enough of my ranting.
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