You got to show me something more!

The best jazz musicians I ever met all had classical training and there is no question that classical music IS the most technically challenging. Show me any jazz musician who can compose or play counterpoint like Bach. Jazz musicians are imitators, of each other and of the classical genre. Seems like you have yet to complete your course on music appreciation.

Coltrane: Actually, yes you did clearly make that inference. However, since you are attempting to weedle out of it I have no "bone" to pick regarding your initial flame post. Your "weedle" is accepted. I once made a post with a somewhat nasty tone to it, yup. LOL. I like to listen to most kinds of music, as long as it has merit, and even listen to some that I don't like as much when my 14 year old godson hangs with me. My wife though, cannot stand to listen to "most" jazz as she finds it irritating. I am in the spare bedroom at this moment listening to the "Jazz Mandolin Project", that I just purchased today for a dollar at the flea, on a cheap mini system. My wife has a fairly vast knowledge of both popular and world music and jazz is just not her cup of tea as Gregorian chanting is not mine. The mandolin CD upon finish is interesting. Oh, and Coltrane was a typo, I just call people names instead clever things like that. David

hey dragon, save a glass for me. BTW, i'd give you a + vote for your last post. i'm with you: screw em' if they can't take a joke! dekay, my only known fellow-iowan on this sorry site: i'd give you 2+. oops, guess i can't do that. coltrane: i'm with dekay; chill out, 'cuz you're commin' on pretty strong for a newbie (or a lurker). but then audiogon apparently loves lurkers ("the silent majority"). hey, anybody else think maybe dubya's people have seized control of audioigon?

Coltrane1; I assume you meant to tell us that your thread posting above is "in your (humble?) opinion? I do like certain jazz ballads, and buy some. But I don't need someome telling me what I should, or should not do, with my money, stereo equipment, music, or anything else. I'm open to civil suggestions though. Cheers. Craig.

Coltrane1, I do not have any idea of how much time you put into reading the threads and posts listed on this site. However, as an observation, I must state that it does not appear to have been too much. You sight only two of over 3000 threads. Spending the time to read through some of these would have led you to determine that most of us listen to a wide variety of music. Yes, each of has preferences and that is part of the beauty of this site and what makes us individuals. We are here at this giant cocktail party because of our love of music. We are bouncing ideas off of each other to improve our playback systems so that we may increase our enjoyment of the music we have. If you like jazz and only jazz that's fine with me. If someone does not care for jazz and hears it as "jerky", that is also fine with me. Just don't tell me that I am wrong and stupid for also enjoying classical and rock as well as jazz.