BLUE NOTE A story of modern jazz;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRCWHWQoIIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNAjQBOP-lUA few Blue Note jazz artists couldn't read music; of course all the most famous could read music. Jazz artists who couldn't read music didn't go around with a sign on their chest stating that fact, but it was a fact, and how they could jam; they played with the most famous Blue Note artists and also made albums of their own.
Jazz is primarily expressing what you feel in the jazz idiom of that time. The cities were so much different in the 60's; I thought the South Side of Chicago was paradise; South Shore drive, the lake; Chicago was the hippest city in the world, so much live entertainment; violence seemed to be restricted mostly to the West Side, and although gangs existed, the South Side was jazz land, not gang land.
I always lived in the city, never far from the action; within walking distance of live entertainment, I loved it. BLUE NOTE JAZZ has the feel and movement of the city; Chicago, St. Louis, New York, but not LA; it had a different feel and movement; notice how different West Coast jazz is from BLUE NOTE Jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aeVlQtsaFE&list=PLKMUFgFPQJ9xkZMmJODD29vJUoWlCa_1GIt's only been since this thread that I diverged. It was when I realized that I was making a job of trying to find new jazz that it happened; but good music is not isolated to jazz; music without a category can sound good.
Enjoy the music