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

First off let me say thank you to @larryi for suggesting to us here to check out Gato. I try to give comments with thankfulness in my intentions when I post here.

Someone told me long ago that, ’someone’s dog can be another’s hit’. And that same person told me there are only two types of music, ’good and bad’.

My first ever Gato Barbieri ’album’ I bought was Caliente! He did a cover of Marvin Gaye’s I want you and I’ve been a fan ever since. Fast forward, in my quest to learn Portuguese I discovered more about his music.

@stuartk you have introduced me (us) to more music than I can count, and I appreciate you for that. You also take to the time to write about said artist’s in a way that shows you are also a wordsmith and it is enjoyable to read your posts. Along with that, your wit shines through and now and then you make me/us chuckle and it’s just so darn refreshing as I know you mean no harm, no foul.

I haven't read the entire thread but I  haven't seen anyone suggest Take Five by Dave Brubeck. And has anyone suggested big band like sing sing sing by Benny Goodman?  

@tyray 

Dunno that I'm any more eloquent than you on the topic of Jazz but thanks for your kind words.  

My first exposure to Gato was something similar... and so, I was quite surprised by what I heard when the needle dropped on the first Flying Dutchman release I'd gotten my hands on!  I do enjoy his note choices/melodic sense. It's just that "edge" that gets to me. But as I've grown older, my tolerance for such things has diminished. When I was young, it was the more "outside" the better. Now, I prefer more consonance. Life is "dissonant" enough!  

@jonwolfpell 

I suspect my transition into Jazz was made easier, having spent so much time listening to the Dead and the Allman Brothers. 

There have been several suggestions, including my own, for Brubeck's "Time Out" album which has the fantastic "Take Five" track.  I do agree that there are many Benny Goodman albums that display terrific music making and virtuosic playing.  I have some original six-eye Columbia stereo recordings from the late 1950's and early 1960's of Benny Goodman that are among the finest recordings that I have in terms of sound quality.  

I think there may have been some suggestion that certain types of jazz recordings are not sophisticated or demanding enough to be included in suggestions.  I don't think that is the case.  I often listen to simple, tuneful music that others would call easy listening.  So what if it is easy listening if it is simply beautiful?  In that category. I would suggest recordings by the Tord Gustavsen Trio.  These ECM recordings have the benefit of that label's consistently good engineering.  I would also suggest that one look for recordings of the pianist Geoffrey Keezer.