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Ricardo Olavarría's avatar

Interesting article.

In my case, while jazz isn't the genre I listen to the most (like metal or rock), I've been listening to it since my teens and have tried to keep up with current interesting developments. And it all started with Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. I think what caught my attention about jazz created since the 1950s and 1960s (I don't like the earlier jazz as much, with exceptions like Lester Young) was a certain intellectual coldness I perceived in its sound, at least in what Davis, Coltrane, or Mingus were doing.

As I've gotten older, I've realized which genres —although I've tried to listen to them and have songs I like— I don't usually play, and, in my case, I've realized that genres with more danceable rhythms don't appeal that much to me, like salsa or cumbia.

In any case, I think it's always interesting to know why one likes or dislikes something, which in most cases has more to do with oneself than with the cultural objects one interacts with.

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