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

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll!

Now Lizabeth, not all Jazz is involving! Or Rock, Soul, Blues, etc. I just got a CD of Linkin Park and it is an eye opener, maybe not my exact taste but shows some promise. It will clear out your ear canals fo sure!

Happy Listeing.

Short answer: No.

I liked the one word definitions of Froggerz40. I still find that good rock energizes me. The sound of an electric guitar almost always brings a smile to my face. I've mused many times that it's going to be weird listening to this stuff when I'm 80, but I expect (hope) that I still find it energizing.

I also don't believe that rock died in the early 70's, and that nothing good has been produced since. Somebody mentioned Linkin Park - one of a kind artistic virtuousity? Of course not, but a whole lotta fun. Tool, Dream Theater, Jane's Addiction, Joe Satriani, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead - much of my favorite music, and I listen to it regularly. My listening habits have certainly changed since I was 20, so I probably don't listen to these CDs with the same intensity or repetitiveness I did their peers when I was 20, but I also have broader tastes and more music to choose from these days.

I also haven't, and hope that I never do, lose my taste for a well done pop tune. Simple, yes, but simple is vastly underrated in my opinion. Sure, there is a lot of drone-on sameness to the pop scene, but I love finding great pop tunes.

Then there is the matter of definition. There are a lot of "jazz" bands that are not the jazz that seems to fit the definitions being used here. Obviously, there's a whole spectrum. Anyway, a lot of my favorite music that I've 'found' in the past few years is in this area - Galactic, Soulive, Ronny Jordan as examples.

I do like and listen to, or attend concerts of, jazz artists regularly. I saw Stefon Harris last month and it was really engaging. On my worst days, jazz strikes me the way R&R Jeff described it above. In face, light jazz always strikes me that way. But on good days, I find shows / albums like Stefon Harris enthralling.

What listening to jazz recordings has dulled is my taste for rock recordings. Some are excellent (Tool), many are listenable since I like the music, some are just so bad as to make things unlistenable no matter how much you might care for the music. -Kirk

When I was a teenager, all I listened to was straight-ahead jazz. The Marsalises, Art Blakey, Monk, Miles, Train, Rhasahhn, etc. I was a musician then (and now) and learned a lot about music theory. Now I actually am enjoying rock MORE. I find that music is just music, and the whole genre thing is becoming less and less important.

Thank you Crazy4blues.....your last sentence says it all!!