Really smart people cannot listen to the illogic of jazz.
As one of my kids noted, almost all jazz concerts are free because no one wants to pay for ear mush.
And then there was Ornette Coleman:
Coleman’s playing created instantaneous controversy. Miles Davis, Red Garland and Coleman Hawkins were initially openly hostile to Coleman. Dizzie Gillespie said ‘I don’t know what he’s playing but it’s not jazz’. Davis’ comments, ‘the man is all screwed up inside’, were the ones that the press picked up on but drummer Max Roach took his outrage far enough to follow Coleman backstage one night and punch him in the mouth.
LOL! Completely inaccurate but a bit silly, nonetheless...
As an entrepreneur who works from home, I normally have our local classical station on in the background but also inject our local jazz station. Obviously, jazz CDs are also played throughout the day.
btw, my entrepreneurial activities involves the US marketing of ultra high-end audio equipment from Europe and the Far East.
As an aside, I earned an MBA with national honors (top 1%) from a business school that was a part of the 25% of US accredited business schools
Jazz at its best is just as polyphonic as Palestrina, just as harmonic as Haydn, just as complex as Chopin, just as riveting as Ravel, and requires the musicianship of a Marsalis or a Milhaud--who as a classical composer taught jazz to Dave Brubeck, who taught it to Darius Brubeck, who taught it to Pamela Myburgh among many others.
America has its classical composers who are the equal of anything out of Europe, from MacDowell to Gershwin to Ives to Still to Copland to Bernstein to Cascarino to John Adams and John Williams, but jazz at its best is the American classical music.
You’ve never talked to really good jazz players.
Born and raised in New Orleans I considerjazz disjointed noise.Cant stand the chaos.
In my experience, really smart people are the audience for jazz and sometimes also play jazz.
One of the first people I knew who was really into jazz is a professional mathematician.