Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz?

Hi,

As is obvious from the posts above, it's a massive field with lots of individual preferences.

Some of my favourite albums:

Anything by Nik Bartsch but especially the Live album

Manu Katche is excellent: albums like Neighbourhood

The Astounding Eyes of Rita by Anouar Brahem I like a lot.  It's a world/jazz fusion type album.

Happy exploring

Tom Scott and the LA Express - Tom Cat

Think light jazz, like CHRIS BOTTI …..

https://youtu.be/gdwDa3YlgTg

@OP Chet Baker, Paul Desmond. And though some people hate CTI recordings, a lot of Wes Montgomery's CTI recordings are very listenable. And speaking of Wes Montgomery, Lee Ritenour's Wes Bound is an outstanding recording - in the quality of its engineering and musicianship.

I am exactly like you.  I’ve tried for decades to like jazz.  It just doesn’t grab me much at all.  However, I have one recording I could gladly listen to again and again.  It’s the only jazz record I can say that about and I have a small collection of recordings by very well known jazz artists.

I came across this recording thanks to Michael Fremer.  He was invited to speak at our Audiophile Foundation and he talked about this recording.  I decided that if Michael Fremer recommended it I would buy it.  I have a perfectly good turntable and a relatively large vinyl collection, but I don’t buy LPs any more as I’m hooked on streaming my own large CD collection.  I made an exception and I am very very glad I did.

the recording  is named “Rufus Reid and Caellan Cardello.  It’s just a piano and a double bass.

The recording was done in a small performance space in NYC and billed as “New Directions in Jazz Piano”