I'll tell you one thing -- I'm no longer ashamed of my inability to "get into" jazz. I'm old enough now to realize that the problem is not the fact that I don't play any brass instruments, nor that I grew up surrounded by the sounds of rock and roll -- the reason that I dislike this music so much is because of all the soloing. To me, sitting down and listening to some asshole bleat, blat and bloop 4000 notes in no particular order on top of mediocre jazz chord sequences is no more a sign of 'cultured taste' than listening to a Joe Satriani album. Both styles of music are completely self-indulgent, violate nearly every rule of musical composition that I respect, and bore the living loving maid out of me.
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Xavier Brown
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Zachary Gutierrez
Sorry user. Jazz isn't discussed here anymore You can't even get discussions going with low tier bait anymore. The community died with /blindfold/.
Easton Ortiz
What is /blindfold/.?
Brandon Perry
It was a weekly thread where jazz fans around Sup Forums used to upload a themed jazz playlist with all the metadata stripped. People would listen over the week and then give opinions about the tracks, guess who the players were, etc. and then at the end of the thread the track info was revealed and someone uploaded a new playlist.
It was pretty fucking sweet and lasted close to a year but eventually stopped being a thing. It was kind of the last bastion of jazz discussion and nowadays /jazz/ threads rarely get more than ~10 replies.
Jack Young
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Kayden Gonzalez
You need the rest of the meme where they take the piss out of Modern Jazz Giants.
The joke isn't half as funny without taking into account how fucking disappointing that record is.
Hudson Anderson
I noticed that the shorter people's attention spans are, and the worse their ability to memorize music, the slimmer the chance they'll like jazz.
I'm not sure if it's an iq or genetics thing, but typically people with better memory are more appreciative of groove and soulfulness. I think that's why Jazz isn't as popular in US anymore, like it is in Europe.
Brody Collins
That's alright OP, most people in the world don't know a thing about music and just want someone singing over the same pop beat being recycled for the hundredth time.
Go back to your trap or emo or whatever else you listen to.
Alexander Collins
You could try indigo jam unit for more composition-centered Jazz.
Kayden Collins
RIP
I didn't have time to participate very often but the /blindfold/ threads were the best regular threads on Sup Forums ever