To ask if you like jazz?

[BlueJuniper94]

Aibu to ask if you like jazz?

And to ask some follow up questions, such as:

How old are you and when did you start enjoying jazz?

What kind of jazz do you enjoy?

What do you enjoy about it? How do you experience it? What kinda headspace does it fill?

And any other information you would like to add that you feel may in some way be relevant. Many thanks in advance.

(Fwiw I'm not a jazz enjoyer, just driving home listening to R3, trying to "get it" and somewhat frustrated I can't... I think I'd like to)

Try Miles Davis, Kind of Blue album.
So many different kinds of jazz. Lots I don't like. But I love that. Might think of some more.

My dad used to play Ella Fitzgerald when I was a kid growing up and I loved the sound of her voice. Then occasionally he'd play Louis Armstrong and I adored his voice too. I've listened to them both ever since. There's loads of jazz I can't stand – too smooth or too experimental turns me right off – but loads I love too, including some of the newer fusion stuff, like Ezra collective. It's as varied as rock music, so listen to a few different styles to discover something you like.

I love 'some' jazz, but it has so many sub-genres, you can disappear down a rabbit hole exploring it.

I do like jazz though hardcore jazz lovers would possibly say I don't as I like the lighter stuff such as pps have mentioned. I'm not a huge fan of the freestyle screechy type. An ex loved jazz and played in a band so we used to listen to it a lot. I do like to go to jazz clubs, they have a very chilled vibe.

It depends. More mainstream stuff like Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, yes.

Freeform experimental nonsense with a random clarinet solo shrieking out of nowhere and you can’t tell what time signature or key it’s supposed to be in, no.

Jamie Cullum does a weekly jazz show on Radio 2. You’d be able to find it on BBC Sounds and see what you think.

Like others - there's a bit of 'it depends' about it, as there are many different sounds that come under 'jazz'.

Like many genres of music really, there is the more commercial sound and then the very pure, or even extreme sound.
I'd say the same about rock music, and definitely Country music.

I like jazz from the 1940s, 50s and 60s, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, John Coltrane Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday etc. My dad used to listen to it when I was a child and I've sort of inherited that from him. Don't listen to it a lot and don't know much about it but when I'm in the right frame of mind I can really get into it.

I loathe "smooth" Jazz FM style nightclub crooner jazz: I have to turn it off when it comes on the radio, and I find some of the really out there freestyle avant garde forms impenetrable.

Hmm recently yes, I’ve been enjoying jazz. Namely Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux and Liane Carroll. I’m trying to get more into it, I didn’t grow up in a jazzy household and there’s an overwhelming amount to know where to start!

Am pretty much over the Standards (I’m a musician so probably over-exposed!). I LOVE singing jazz though and scatting!

Hate it - sounds like all the notes that were left over from proper songs just jammed together !

Ooh an Emma Nissen.

Currently listening to Sonny Rollins love Jazz. I'm 52, my grandmother would play jazz on her sterogram on a Sunday afternoon.

Another "it depends" person. I like "bright" and "soft" (my words) jazz - i.e. not melancholy, and I prefer it with words generally. So I like some jazz.

I'm getting more into classical music having had to rein in my radio 4 consumption due to the world being manifestly depressing.

Jazz is a broad label. For me, as a rough guide, I can't bear tooting clarinets and trumpets. The sort of thing that Kenny Ball et al used to play - I think it's New Orleans or Dixieland jazz. Awful. Also, the electric guitar and violin are instruments that shouldn't be allowed anywhere near jazz music. Stuff like Django Reinhardt, Jim Hall and Stephane Grappelli. Not my cup of tea.

I like piano, double bass, drums, tenor and alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone, vibes and marimba but not necessarily all at the same time! I'm also a sucker for a female singer like Diana Krall and Stacey Kent.

I like “Japanese cafe jazz”.

Alas, sometimes I’ll put on some innocuous Jazz FM and then find myself wanting to pull out my appendix an hour later, but it resolves when I turn off the weirdo jazz that it’s somehow morphed into.

So do I, but I don’t know what the terminology is, so can’t be precise. It’s not my favourite genre, though. The sort of jazz I hate is the aimless, endless, formless twiddling of The Dudley Moore Trio and similar. What’s that called? Sorry if that’s heresy but I just detest that kind of jazz.

The random type jazz makes me really anxious- my brain can’t cope.

Cory Weeds is a great saxophonist. He has a few tunes on YouTube.

I’m 56 and yes I like some jazz. Tends to be specific artists rather than genres because I don’t know enough to know what I like. Love Bill Evans who was a favourite of my late Dh. Love a good bit of Pat Metheny. A couple of my top favourite tracks are Honeysuckle Rose and Bunch of Keys played by Fats Waller, because I picked up a random greatest hits album long ago and fell for him big time, plus Harry James’ version of I’ve Heard That Song Before because I adored the Woody Allen* film Hannah and her Sisters and it’s on the soundtrack.

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Theres so much crossover I find it hard to work out what jazz is, as opposed to soul, minimalist classical etc. I’m prepared to believe there is a definition though.

I love it. Not every single jazz piece but lots of it.
I was introduced to it by my clarinet teacher and we just had lots of fun playing jazz pieces together (I didn't want to do the exams). We played lots of classical music too and I love classical music but I really enjoy the creativity of Jazz

The Jazz that used to be in the Homeland intro - cos Carrie listened to jazz & I think it was a metaphor of some kind to her very jumbled (yet brilliant) thinking - I can’t stand that type of jazz. It’s just noise, no pattern, and I find it incredibly irritating. But I do love Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue album. I like ‘relaxed’ jazz, not the smooth stuff, more chilled out relaxed music. But it’s not my go to music most of the time. I don’t like the randomness of Jazz a lot of the time. Doesn’t make sense to me.

Its the only music I can’t stand.
It makes my ears want to bleed.

Jazz, as ‘adored’ by jazz enthusiasts, is shit.

Music that starts as jazz and breaks into mainstream blues or pop is OK. But it’s no longer jazz then.

It's the only genre of music I don't like. I find it quite irritating.

I love Barry Adamson’s jazz stuff (ex Magazine, Bad Seeds etc) as well as the old greats

If you like Kind Of Blue try pianist Bill Evans (Everybody digs Bill Evans from 1959 is a great start) He played in that Miles band. Also John Coltrane : Coltrane and Giant Steps are good entry points before moving onto A Love Supreme . Nina Simone can do no wrong and an essential but I don`t really see her as a jazz performer as her range is so wide- Blues, jazz, classical, pop, stage songs.