Jazz for aficionados

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?

I forgot to say that music in his effects on living creatures as well as sound is an objective event not a mere subjective one.

Then our taste did not express a mere contingent free will as a choice but also reflect something about us even in our physiological reaction that constrain the choice...

Then taste is a complex concept.

Music is more than leisure activity ...It is a deep working probe in the ocean/atmosphere we are as body/soul.

Taste is the reflecting peak of a huge unknown iceberg.

I forget to spoke here about the mechanization of the soul by social control  acting on our taste...But it exist too ...

@mahgister

Then our taste did not express a mere contingent free will as a choice but also reflect something about us even in our physiological reaction that constrain the choice...

I’m not sure I grasp what you mean, here.

You’re suggesting there’s an unconscious somatic shrinking away from or filtering elements out of that which we’re hearing at the same time we’re consciously embracing it. . . or ???