I listened to your link. Ho-hum. I never was much of a jazz fan. I'll take your word for it.

I listened carefully to the link you provided with Dave Brubeck's Quartet. For me, jazz like that was something to be listened to, low enough in the background so one could have conversation with others while out at the club during the night. I only had one occasion, one night in Washington DC to be at a club where a similar quartet played with a woman in Washington to chase money politics and didn't really want to be with me. We were right next to the musicians, so conversation while they were playing was not possible.

I generally don't listen to music and never did except when in my car and before I had a television set. But I have always preferred popular music, ballads, country, rhythm and blues. I found that progressive jazz with this clashing lack of rhythm like a musical wreck so dissonant it hurt my ears. In college, I enjoyed many, many artists who came and played for us. Especially one flamenco guitarist who came and played his acoustic guitar that filled the whole auditorium. And then there was the progressive jazz group that came from Chicago, I had a flat tire and arrived about two hours late while everyone waited. They played a couple of sets and walked off the stage because no one applauded what they played.

I guess I will always be a country bumpkin who likes to listen to what is popular, and often a bit too repetitive like that one note guy, but has rhyme and reason. Sophistication like jazz, opera and even most classical music is too highfalutin for me.

Ron

The many clarify the One. Beautifully expressed, Odin. Music speaks in ways mere words never can. Blessings.