Jazz listening has dulled my taste for Rock...you?

The bulk of my collection is rock-always has been & always will be. One of my very good friends is a jazz aficionado & has turned me on to a lot of different jazz over the years & although I enjoy it, I listen to & enjoy rock as much as I did in the 60's.

So the answer to your question is no, jazz has not dulled anything.

Poor digital transfering, and the voicing priorities of many high end components can really hurt some pretty good (especially rock) recordings. Apart from that, the last few decades have produced thousands of releases that help to blur or reconfigure the descriptive verbage and alot of the arbitrary boundries that we try to impose on music. Miles Davis, Zappa, McLaughlin, Holdsworth, Torn, Fiuczynski, (and many others) have delivered the kind of visceral whomp that most would describe as rock without confining themselves to established rock idioms. Some stuff that might be thought of as rock is often way more challenging and sonically complex than most of what is in the BMG or Columbia House jazz catalogs. The old Duke Ellington truism about there only being two kinds of music seems to hold. Well informed or not, the listener will decide if the music is good or bad/(boring or interesting).

Yep, I'm a jazz mostly, new age and world music guy. Once in a while I "toss on a little rock action" but go right back to the "other stuff" in less than 5 minutes !!
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I appreciate and enjoy rock as well as jazz. Personally, I listened to mostly rock through highschool and college. Post college, I just couldn't relate to rock anymore, and picked up jazz. Wow, I can actually listen to a recording for more than 20 times and not be bored with it. As someone already mentioned, it was tough to pull away from the melody but once that's out of the way, jazz becomes immensely enjoyable and the possibilities seem endless. The levels of creativity, musicmanship, interaction, etc... take on new meanings for me. I'm in my late 20's now, and still enjoy an occasional rock album from my musical past, but for the most part, it's jazz. Call it growing up if you will.

Oh Elizabeth, this is just another phase you're going through, just like the piercings the Goth outfits, and the Donny Osmond posters. You have to admit now that you were never really 'in love with him!'

Actually the older I get the more I believe that if you don't enjoy all music you don't enjoy music. I refer to good quality, well played music, not just some crappy knock-off of any particular style. My tastes have broadened over the years to include many things I did not enjoy before.

I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Cab Calloway last night. I'm pretty sure it was the first time I ever had those two on the CDP in such close proximity. Before that I listened to ELO, so what does it all mean?!?

As long as the racoon and I are happy, I guess it doesn't matter.