There’s a spiritual satisfaction that one gets from listening and playing good Jazz.
Apparently Jazz is now considered high art and the average person has trouble understanding it.
The expression of freedom that is Jazz improvisation mirrors the ethos of the best parts of society.
Jazz standards are our contribution to music history.
People who like Jazz feel the depth and soul and intelligence that the music expresses.
Jazz music is the real deal.
Jazz is not to be sliced into bites by mass marketing geniuses who assume we are mindless cattle.
Jazz music is our original American culture.