Music by the ear

I have been in Chicago for the last month or so. The city is known for its Jazz as well as Blue's bar.

Last evening I was at Chicago Blues, the music was raunchy and the rifts plaintive. For someone who is as uneducated about music as I am, but who loves music and its inate ability to change moods, the choice between going to a Jazz bar Vs a Blues is easy to make.
If it is a choice to be made it will always be the blues. Jazz is too sophisticated for me. Blues is full of soul and is down to earth. I get a sense that you need to have a finer appreciation of how music gets created and be a musician yourself to appreciate Jazz. That is not to say blues is simple, it is just easier on my senses to appreciate it.

It is the kind of difference I see between Carnatic and Hindustani classical. To me Hindustani is more melodious than Carnatic. Hindustani is for the consumer of the music, Carnatic seems to be for the creator.

After 4-5 larges of Makers Mark, Badri and I spoke about this. Badri by the way is far more smarter and knowledgeable than I am and so obviously gave me examples of sophisticated blues and down to earth Jazz:) and started asking me questions to which I had no answer, and then graciously said- "you win". I did... I continued enjoying the blues