Dilettante Trash

For the record, Alan Jackson = DOPE.

As in he's on some, surely. What the fuck is with that mustache?

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I am dilettante trash.

Sometimes I get frustrated by my dilettante trash attitude toward jazz. I love much of Sun Ra's music, and almost all of the Billie Holiday I have heard; but both of these artists tend to have a big crossover audience. What confounds me though is when I will even like a Sun Ra recording that stays pretty close to the jazz mainstream (like the song "Dark Clouds with Silver Linings"). Okay, granted I also like some Coltrane (when I am in the right mood), and a track here or there by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jimmy Giuffre, Charlie Parker, and some others. But still, for the most part I don't like jazz. Yet because some of my favorite music is jazz, I continue to be interested in trying to find other jazz that I will enjoy. Some examples of major artists who have not yet made a positive impression on me would include Miles Davis and Charles Mingus.

I think the only genres I really like in a big way, where I tend to like the very conventions of the genre, would be salsa, a certain form or forms of older Arabic pop music, and perhaps 70's soul.