Trollheart

OK now I've had time to listen to both recommended tracks, here are my observations:

Jelly Roll Morton: not meandering no, but I really did not like this. Does nothing for me at all, had to force myself to get to the end.

Jimmy Smith: very accomplished, good organ solo but again not really my thing.

The only reason I posted about not liking jazz was that I could not believe anyone could be so --- perhaps unintentionally --- arrogant as to make the statement Gucci Little Piggy made that they could not understand anyone not liking jazz. I mean, no matter the genre, there's always going to be someone who doesn't like it. You can debate the pros of jazz, punk, emo, whatever back and forth with me, but in the end if I don't like it I don't like it. For someone to decide that because they like something, it's impossible to conceive that anyone else could dislike it, is to me the worst sort of conceit, and the kind of thing that probably need an "imo" after it.

No matter how much I love a band/artiste/genre, or even outside of that, book, author, film, football club, I know that not everyone will see it as I do, and am prepared to accept that other views exist. I couldn't truly say something like "What? You don't like Pink Floyd?" as a for-instance, "EVERYONE loves Pink Floyd! How can you not? How could anyone dislike them?"

As I said, it was the sense of arrogance --- again, I accept, perhaps not intentional --- in that statement that drove me to declare my dislike of jazz, which is where this all sparked off.

And as it happens, yes, I still have no interest in jazz, just does nothing for me. I'm sure it's a great genre for those who like it, and I accept it has had a big effect on most music, but it's not for me.

One of my adopt-a-newbies mentioned that she hates classical music with a passion: she actually has to leave when it's on. I tried to convince her --- briefly --- that it wasn't all bad but she would not be moved. In that case, I just accepted she was not into that music and left it. I did not think, or advance the opinion, that "no-one could dislike classical music!"

We all have our likes and dislikes, and this needs to be accepted by Gucci Little Piggy: there are things in this life that people don't like, no matter how much you may like them. That's just how people are.

It's longwinded but that was the point I was trying to make: not that I hate jazz particularly, but that it's unfair to tell someone they CAN'T dislike something, or that you don't understand how they can think that way.

That was all.

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