Originally Posted By: Notes Norton
I'd love to play jazz, and did it for a while, but I don't know if I would want to play it exclusively. I'd miss the power of rock, the angst of blues, the rhythms of salsa, and so on

For a long, long, time I didn't realise that my primary musical interest is jazz, though I have a broad view of what constitutes jazz.

It was really only the jazz-funk fusion stuff of the 70s and 80s that made me look deeper into what drive my tastes, and I started to realise that an awful lot of what I liked was played by jazz-oriented musicians playing some of what they wanted to play in other contexts that "weren't jazz".

I also note the number of people I've know who "don't like jazz", but do like what I play (both as a maybe-musician and from my music collection).

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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