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

Since seeing Ken Burns Jazz series, and beginning to listen to, and appreciate Jazz... I find that I no longer find Rock music to be very interesting. Compared to Jazz, the music is BORING! The very best of Rock can still hold my attention a bit, but generally Rock is just too primitive and 'simple' compared to Jazz.
Classical music is so different, and has such different rules, that I still find it very appealing, but Rock... bleeh!!! (sorry Rock fans... and I'm not trolling, I really wonder if anyone else has had this happen!)
elizabeth
crazy4blues
243 posts
 
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.
tubino
24 posts
 
Thank you Crazy4blues.....your last sentence says it all!!
4yanx
1,576 posts
 
I like Crazy's sentence, too.

I can and do enjoy equally many jazz and rock cuts (to the extent one can neatly segregate it all) in addition to other "genre". There are different kinds of enjoyment for different kinds of music. When I hear anyone define their choice of preference in one type of music over another as "growing up", I always feel the only thing "up" is probably their nose. Sorry.
davebachmann
94 posts
 
Wasn't it Ellington who said "There's only two kinds of music - good and bad."...
uppermidfi
277 posts
 
Wow 4yanx I never thought of Elizabeth as snotty or stuck up. But then again who does she think she is prefering jazz over rock? There is no reason for the ugly head of musicism to be raised on this politically correct website.

I'm not guilty of musical stylism, I'm just schitzoid. I go from classical, to opera, to rock, to jazz, and even in moments of weakness even to a little country music.

Am I too discriminating, or not discriminating enough?

...an' dats da name a dat tune!
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