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One thing you have to understand about jazz is that there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of sorry ass jazz players. Because jazz is "free" just about anyone can call themselves a jazz musician but there are actually very few true ones.
Second, jazz is relatively sophisticated musical form when compared to most others but few actually understand it on the level its meant to be.
Third, there are many sub-genre's of jazz and not all are created equal.
Fourth, Jazz is mainly an improvisatory art form and therefore its much more difficult to compose good sounding pieces for most people. Specially since you usually have several other guys improvising at the same time(of course around a common framework so it doesn't get too out of control).
Having said that I think the whole point of jazz is to find that "moment" when everything comes together in some orgasmic musical expression of human creativity. Its kinda like a bunch of monkeys typing on type writers hoping that they will type something good but never do.
I think if you understand it from the context that 99% of jazz musicians suck ass then you'll have a good understanding. Most people who can't make any good music become jazz musicians so they can just play scales and pretend to be hip because they know they can make this substitution here and its "jazzy" or play this mode over this chord and its "cool". (in reality they have no idea how to make good music though)
I'm being a bit harsh though... it's only like 97% or 98% of them that are like this.
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