Why don't girls like jazz?

Question

Okay, for all you people who say girls like jazz, they don't.

And by the way I don't mean singers/standards or latin or smooth jazz (smooth jazz is funk, not jazz). I mean real JAZZZZZ jazz, like agressive swing...i don't know, miles davis before he got all modern.

I don't mean Sinatra and I don't mean lovey ballads, I mean JAZZZZZ!!!! Like okay I thought of a better question and im gonna post it

Answer 1

i love it.

Answer 2

The jazz that most folks seem to have the most problem with 'getting' is the kind that has a higher dissonance quotient than the music they're ears are used to.

And if the music doesn't give them the instant gratification of a hook, riff, or chorus within the first ten seconds, their eyes will glaze over and all hopes are lost after that. Of course it's also got to have vocals and lyrics, and a boring, repetitive, beat you can easily dance to, oh, and be free of any soloing and/or odd-time signatures.

Of all the live jazz shows I've attended, which may now be in the hundreds, the overwhelming majority of the women I see there are there to be with their man, not because they like the music. They exhibit the same kind of feigned interest or excitement I see with straight guys who are dragged to the mall for a day of clothes shopping with their wives/girlfriends, or the ones I see at intermission at a Broadway show.

While we have real-deal (female) jazz musicians like Mimi Fox that obliterate my gross generalizations here, unfortunately those like her are anomalies - even among the jazz community.

Answer 3

In a Sammy Davis Jr voice:
Say, you groovy cat, you're hangin' with the wrong kittens! I know plenty of swingin' chicks out there, you are in the wrong scenes, man!

OK, all kidding aside, I think you are generalizing a bit here and that is a slippery slope! Let's face it, it's not just 'girls' who don't like the jazz you are speaking of - try to get some guy right off the street to listen. Guess what? He doesn't like it either.

Being a musician and a huge jazz lover (6'4", 285 lbs), I listen to it all and I understand that not everyone is going to like the really hard-core, esoteric stuff. Even you seem to have a problem categorizing Miles. Miles wasn't swing, he was far from that!

You simply cannot drop in a CD by Ornette Coleman or Eric Dolphy or Miles and expect everyone to understand and dig the sounds. This goes for men or women.

Answer 4

Truthfully I think it is a matter of exposure and frankly many folks are unaware and have not be exposed.
I am a female and was exposed to this Art form early from my parents and subsequently Men who I was dating. I love Music and definitely love this African American art form Called Jazz which is truly Our Own.

Hard to say FEMALES DISLIKE WHEN THEY HAVE CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO THE ART FORM
I am a female and I enjoy:
Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Cedar Walton, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Billy Higgins,Louis Armstrong, Sonny Stit, Freddie Hubbard, Al Jarreau, Jimmy Lanceford,Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Errol Garner , Arnett Cobb, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea ,Ron Carter, Joshua Redman, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Teddy Wilson, Stanley Turrentine,Horace Silver, Quincy Jones, Cal Cjader, Winton Marcellus , Dexter Gordon, Lionel Hampton, Art Tatum, Art Blakely, Tony Benneth, Clifford Brown, Joe Zawinul, Cannonball Adderley,
Great Women Of Jazz like Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Alice Coltrane, Shirley Horne, Sarah Vaugh, Bessie Smith, Diane Reeves, Carmen McCrae, Nancy Wilson, Abby Lincoln, Diane Washington To name just a few...... AND They all . knew a little something something ....about Jazz
If women didn't sing it, they played the instruments, some even had their own Big jazz bands
So it is all about exposure .....

Answer 5

Although greatly generalizing I would have to say that why 'girls' (under the age of 30) as well as plenty of 'guys' don't usually like jazz is because jazz is art music and requires much *effort* to enjoy. There's plenty of music out there that is more easily assimilated as pleasure than jazz. This is why great jazz (or any great music) will stand the test of time - there is something always new to hear again and again as your experience with it grows. Younger girls don't have time for this and it usually doesn't generate an immediate gratification response, that say, dance music always has had. Also, guys tend to be impressed by different things in music than are women, which is a whole 'nother question.

Answer 6

Baloney, Many of them do.
Some of the greatest jazz singers in the world are women. Not so many musicians but go to a jazz event and look around at the audience.

Answer 7

This is subjective. Some girls like jazz, while others don't. Why don't you do a survey on girls that like jazz? :]

(P.S. I am a girl and I like jazz very much. Why? Because"...Ahhh from the 'quater, Up to the coast, Everybody wingin', Everybody singin',
A dub dub dub dub a rock n' roll. From the east to the west, From the coast to the cold, Jazz is king, Jazz is the thing that folks drink most!")

Answer 8

I love Jazz! It's my Fav! Especaily Sinatra!

Answer 9

What happened to girls who actually PLAY jazz? Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday sum it up for me.

Answer 10

well, girls LOVE jazz. all types. i am one of those. most of my girl friends agree with me. (those that don't, haven't heard GOOD jazz).

having no lyrics makes a nice change from mainstream music, and besides, being a jazz player myself, no vocals is GREAT!

Answer 11

I'm a girl and I love jazz.

So there.