DGDevin wrote:
: contents of some rooms amount to guilty pleasures). I have to feel a bit
: sorry for those who can appreciate the genius of Mozart but for some reason
: can't or won't do the same with John Coltrane or Pete Townshend or Johnny
: Cash.

Exactly!

Frankly there are few things more absurd than the music snob, for
: some reason classical and jazz seem to produce them in large quantities.


Classical I can sot of understand. It was originally court music, so the
paying audience was rich, at least in the beginning. And today as in the past
a full orchestra is just lain expensive, so ticket prices have to be high, and
so it goes.

But jazz? Who decided that jazz was more prestigious
(i.e. better, more high-falooting) than folk, rock, blues,
or electronica? I really don't get this.

-- Andy Barss