>>>>Maybe you should spend a little more time with jazz. Get yourself an appreciation of what real music sounds like. ;)
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>>>I realate with other genres better, but what would you recommend for a jazz newbie? I will get a jazz album if you get a George Strait album.
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>>Oh, I know who George Strait is. I don't hate country music, but I find I tire of it too easily. In general, when I hear one song more than once, well, that's enough. With jazz, I keep getting new things out of the same pieces each time I listen (assuming, of course, that it's good jazz). If you like George Strait, then I'd suggest some sort of easy jazz. Kevin is a hard bop fan, but I kind of think that it wouldn't be your thing. I think maybe something like "The Modern Jazz Quartet", or some Oscar Peterson. Those are strictly instrumental. For singers, maybe some Madeleine Peyroux - her 'Dreamland' album is a great place to start. Her new album, "Half the Perfect World" is also great, but 'Dreamland' has a couple of numbers that I'm sure you'd like - for instance - "Walking After Midnight". On "Half the Perfect World" she even covers Tom Waits by singing "Heart of Saturday Night".
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>"Get some jazz" is so nebulous" Is it trad, prog, ragtime, etc., etc.? Some I love, like Ella, Sachmo, Peterson, Thelonius Monk, et al. Some is like listening to rain on a corrugated roof. Personally I tend to like ANY music that I like, be it opera, classical, Reggae, Ska, jazz, R&R, R&B, Soul, folk, Country, drum & bass, Trance, hip-hop, Himalayan chants, Mongolian throat singing ... whatever, so long as it isn't "American raaack"

That's what the above suggestions are for. I figuer a guy who thinks George Strait is great, isn't going to be into Monk or Trane or Pettiford.