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Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz?

Let me explain, I have tried to like jazz for over 30 years. I rarely find something I like. To me it sounds too disjointed, like everyone is trying to out do the others and they are all playing a different song. I know there has to be some good instrumental smooth jazz artists I am missing. If you have any suggestions of whom to try let me know. Some that are on my Jazz playlist is Pat Metheny-"It's for you"   Bill Frisell _"Heard it through the grapevine"  Holly Cole, George Benson... for an example of things I do like.

 

I'd love to have a 100 song Jazz playlist. So what'ch got for me?

Thanks

fthompson251

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theskipperthree
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I agree with onhwy61. You say it all in your title. There's so much good music out there If you've been trying for 30 years and you just don't get it, why bother.  onhwy61 is right, It's not like anything is going to change. I don't think one day you will proclaim OH, now I get it. Listen to what you like, don't force yourself to like a genre you think your "supposed" to like. Isn't that the point.

theskipperthree
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I have friends who feel similar, never liked jazz. I have an extensive amount of jazz LPs and CDs in my collection and have enjoyed almost every new discovery, new and old. I have tried throughout the years to introduce my friends to jazz artists and recordings that might change their minds, even the most mainstream, never could. We all once went to a performance at the Jazz Standard in NYC a few years ago. At the end I turned to them and said " That was thrilling". They both said, "I hated it!". Different strokes.

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