How eclectic is your taste in music?


Most, if not all, of my best friends in life have embraced different forms/styles/types of music.  

The music ranged from Jazz to Classical to some Rock and others...even some more classic, early country. 

Do you enjoy various music styles or are you more focused on a type or two?....And how/where does the 
music of this season fit in?  I find Nat Cole doing Mel Torme's  "The Christmas Song" comes very close to nearly everything I love about music. 

And I have gotten over people thinking the title to that song is "Chestnuts Roasting"....I no longer have the urge to burn down their tree...mostly. 



whatjd
Fairly, I guess?

Various subgenres of jazz, blues, and rock.  Folk.  Americana.  Choral.  Opera.  Some classical.  Some country.

Not many things just leave me completely cold.  I've never found any metal that appeals to me.  Fusion sounds like bad jazz and worse rock, to me, but I do like some jazz-folk fusion (Bela Fleck, Goat Rodeo).  I'll go as far as In A Quiet Way, and that's about it.  Those are about the only ones I can think of.
Well, if you can take a joke....there was a lady DJ that said in a deep Southern accent...

"we play both kinds of music, we play your country and your western"

My father was a self taught Guitar player and was a fan of Hank senior.  I went to many Rock concerts, and many live Jazz concerts and from Summerfest in Milwaukee to The Rainbow Room in NYC and others around the U.S. and some other countries. 

As the Danes would spell it, Kobenhavn is a great place for American Jazz. 

As I look over my CD/SACD collection, it does seem to be dominated by some of the great female singers in American history that do mainly standards, Jazz and songs that are...a bit, romantic. 
  


If the music is made with heart and skill, I really don't care what the genre is.  From opera to chamber music to punk to pop to soul to jazz to MOR to hip-hop, etc., etc., etc., if the delivery is compelling enough I can't help but listen.  My music collection covers all genres. Love show tunes, too.
“One more, once!” (Count Basie) :

**** There are only two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ****

 -  Duke Ellington
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Couldn't agree more. Variety is the best thing about it.
Tool, LP, Ronstadt, Coltrane, Puccini. As long as it is recorded well, it's all good.