What happened to Jazz programming?
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Man, some of you folks sure have a myopic view of what Jazz is all about.
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Like any genre of music, jazz is a huge umbrella: big band, small group, dixieland, swing, bop, smooth, modal, fusion, hornband rock...
My personal opinion (and I'll probably get fragged for this) is that we have intellectualized jazz to a level that the majority of people can't understand what we are doing.
We are an interesting bunch of people. We don't like it when people don't understand our music and don't buy it, but we denigrate people who play simpler jazz that people do buy.
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To me, there's a difference between not caring for a particular genre of anything and not knowing that it's there. One is personal taste, the other is a lack of perspective.
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@flugelgirl My grandpa listened to Guy Lombardo when we were kids, and we all loved it. I still give that a listen every so often.
My first adult experience with jazz was when I bought a Coltrane album and then a Miles Davis album. I feel like I kinda started at the top.
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Neal085, your reply brought up my first experience to "jazz". My father had a Earl Grant (Hammond B-3 organist) and I just loved that sound. I listened to that album over and over again, not knowing what it was I was listening to, but that I really loved that kind of music.
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I also remember an interview I heard of Jaco Pastorius that commented he remembered vividly listening to his Father's album of Charlie Parker playing Donna Lee. The speakers being very distorted he said sounded more like a bass lead than a sax lead. And as they say, the rest is history:
