Jazz for aficionados

@acman3 

Speaking only for myself, I’m increasingly inclined to regard taste as a limiting factor. A tyrant, even. As time goes on, I find it increasingly more difficult to find music I like enough to purchase. 

I’ve always defined "music" in terms of melody, harmony, time and capacity to compellingly improvise rather than the sonic aspects of presentation beloved by audiophiles. I like to believe sonics are the "frosting" , not the "cake" and that I’m perfectly capable of "getting" the cake whether delivered via transistor radio or a friend’s high end system. I suspect this is not atypical for those of us who’ve played music. However, this experience with the Jarrett CD has caused me to question my long-standing perspective. 

I suppose it’s possible I may have slowly developed more patience over time and simply not noticed it. I’m really not sure what to think at this point. 

@stuartk 

yep.

That’s what keeps me away from hard rap and hard opera.

Speaking only for myself, I’m increasingly inclined to regard taste as a limiting factor. A tyrant, even. As time goes on, I find it increasingly more difficult to find music I like enough to purchase. 

@stuartk 

Speaker height is important, but Tweeter height is the most important. They should be at ear level. My SF’s have the tweeter near the top and all the SF tech people say you have to raise the back of the speaker to aim the tweeters down a bit.  Long story short, I temporarily using half of a two piece couch as my listening chair and unless I’m sitting up perfectly straight, I’m losing a lot of the high end.

Anyone hear from @frogman ?

@curiousjim 

I’ve heard of Hard Rock, Hard Bop and even Hard Country but am not familiar with Hard Opera. By contrast, would Soft Opera be something like Gilbert & Sullivan. . .or? 

I’ve never been able to get over my long-time distaste for Classical singing, so any type of Opera is "hard" on my ears/brain  ;o)