Why do some people hate jazz music?

Some people see this as negative, leading to technically adept but inward-looking music. Once again, as in any field, if you look at the best – and why would you not? – jazz, from cross-cultural fusion to spiky avant garde, is bursting with energy and invention. Why I hate jazz. read more

The people who unknowingly conflate music that isn’t legitimately jazz with jazz and respond accordingly. “Jazz, no thank you; I hate Kenny G.” The people who have made some artist(s) in jazz a poster child of some sort for their own political/ideological agenda; an agenda that has absolutely nothing to do with jazz. read more

Because Classical composers originally were inspired by european folk music for their compositions. read more

Why I love jazz Mike Hobart is the jazz critic of the Financial Times. The first music to really hit me in the stomach was rock ‘n’ roll. Little Richard, Elvis Presley, that sort of thing. But the music soon got diluted, and the energy sapped away. read more