Jazz for aficionados

This video is a bit contorted expression of a truth :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrp-2JPSoYE

One commentary under it give a gist of it :

«The problem with modern jazz is that, to a considerable extent, it is being written and performed by college professors instead of drug addicts.»

 I am myself not a musician and not competent to give my opinion. But i like the less virtuosity and i love the best expression. Also i listen more with my heart than with my brain.  It is perhaps why i love Chet Baker and Bill evans so much...

Or Armstrong and  Miles Davis before some point in time.

Also i like some european and Japan jazz...Paradoxically because it is a bit away from jazz roots...

Your opinion is always valued, mahgister. Case in point:

**** some european and Japan jazz...Paradoxically because it is a bit away from jazz roots ****

Very true.

To your comments I would only add that virtuosity does not necessarily mean lack of great expression. But I believe you know that.

I am not a musician and i trust your knowledge because i know enough about you to think your opinion are way more musically informed than mine.

Once this is said, I admire the artists above i quoted even if i prefer some to others.

Virtuosity and expression goes always together in all great musician as the one i quoted above.

But if some touch us more than others there must be a reason , the encounter of my subjectivity with a specific style mixing expressivity in some way with some aspects of virtuosity is the cause.

When we interrogate ourselves about our taste we learn less about music than about ourselves for sure...

I tried many suggestions of people here as yours and thanks to all i discovered many great i did not knew . This thread is very important for me ...

Jazz is a tree way bigger now than his roots, which it cannot quit save at the price of dying but the canopy is so rich than i am fascinated by his exploration especially in European jazz...

My best to all and thanks to everyone suggestions and remarks...

@mahgister

Also i listen more with my heart than with my brain.

I can relate!

When we interrogate ourselves about our taste we learn less about music than about ourselves for sure...

So true. What do you think "taste" is made up of, exactly?  What are the underlying factors that drive our preferences? 

Taste is a construction by our living body/brain/ears conditioned by internal physiology as well as by society and also our own independant spirit history.

Knowing my taste is knowing my limitations.Not only my strenght.

In music taste must be educated by us and others..

I come here to be educated in jazz by many who know better than me and more and spoke well about it..."Tastes" of people as flying insects can cross one another and fertilize or inseminate us all if we are  compatible kind for sure..

We all for example recognize Frogman as a well informed person about music in general and jazz in particular.

A fertilizer...Or a seeder...

I will stop my metaphors here... ;)

So true. What do you think "taste" is made up of, exactly? What are the underlying factors that drive our preferences?