Stuff You Tried To Love

BTW @stuartk  - are you saying you don't own Kind of Blue? That certainly is post bop.

@sokogear 

I would classify "Kind of Blue" as Modal, rather than Post Bop. Yes, I own it but it's been years since I've listened to it with any regularity. I was introduced to it in 1976, at a point when I was first getting into Jazz  by listening to the most well-known Jazz recordings. A few years later, I took a college survey course in Jazz appreciation, in the interest of furthering my familiarity with the genre. It took awhile to get a sense of which artists and recordings particularly resonated with me. The Penguin Guide to Jazz was very helpful in this regard. It listed recordings you won't find mentioned in lists of "greatest Jazz records" or such. Just as with Visual Art, Poetry or any other esthetic field of expression, I trust and follow my own inclinations. 

@stuartk 

Please do me the following favor:  put on “Bye Bye Blackbird” from “Round About Midnight”, listen to it with fresh ears, and please let us know what you think.  

People who cannot fathom the fact that we dont like the same styles or genres that they idolize have no idea what music is...

Music adress us where we are ...

Thinking that we are in a contest or a race about what is the best is complete delusion...

listen to this and do me a favor, i think that this man is one of the great musician on this century as Yehudi Menuhin thought also , is it not better than Bye bye Blackbird ? 😊

As you can see we are not from the same mold... ( i like Miles and Chet by the way ) but this dude walk on another planet ... 😁

@mdalton

With all due respect, I don’t see the purpose of this exercise.

You could’ve just as easily suggested any one of 100’s of other Jazz recordings and my response would be the same: I recognize the talent and artistic merit but feel more deeply affected by something else.

I could say the same for much visual art, much poetry, etc. It is entirely possible to recognize the merit of an artwork while at the same time feeling less engaged by it than some other artwork.

There is nothing wrong with having preferences and we needn’t justify our preferences; indeed, the reasons for our preferences are not always easily discernible.

However, if our default mode is automatically judging whatever we like as "good" and whatever we don’t like as "bad", that’s a problem, in my view. To clarify, I’m not suggesting you are doing this! I’m merely drawing a comparison.