Or do I do?
I like jazz but do I love jazz anyhow?I don't like jazz when it gets chaotic and becomes incomprehensible.
I don't like jazz when the audience does not clap their hands at the end of every solo.
I don't like flamenco jazz when what they are playing is actually flamenco with saxophone.
I don't like jazz mixed with any Folkore.
I don't like jazz fusion when the merger doesn't let me hear jazz.
I don't like jazz rock when rock doesn't let me hear jazz.
I don't like jazz when pianists as fabulous as Eliane Elias record songs that are nothing more than soft and sterile pop.
I don't like the jazz of Norah Jones and Amos Lee because what they really sing is just country music (although I like their music if what I want to listen to is country music).
I still don't know if I like Jazz by Toni Morrison.
I don't like machine-made electric jazz.
I don't like jazz understood as an elitist music only available to a few (as Lennon said: "Jazz, that shit for intellectuals").
I don't like jazz when tv uses it only as a mood for a striptease show.
I don't like that mellow and plasticized jazz that Yellowjackets play.
I don't like jazz gigs when one musician has not a chance to play his solo.
I don't like jazz without inspiration.
I don't like any kind of jazz, anyhow.
Or do I do?
