Classical or jazz players/fans?

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Very true. I'm also a big fan of the jazz pianists. Oscar Peterson is probably my favorite along with Erroll Garner and Art Tatum. I also love the wandering horn/wood-wind lines in the old New Orleans jazz.

As for more modern jazz, I like the Esbjorn Svennsonn Trio. All the things the Acoustic Ladyland / Polar Bear guys are coming out with are great though I need to be in the right kind of mood to listen to them.

I think the only jazz I really don't like is the new trend of muzak-jazz that seems to have become quite popular. As an example, I was horrified to see when CD-Browsing the other day, a jazz compilation that proclaimed across the front in big letters "Contains tracks by legends such as Miles Davis, Jamie Cullum, John Coltrane" (and in that order!!)

I do like a bit of classical from time to time as well, in particular Beethoven piano sonatas

I really want to get into Jazz, but I don't know any artists that specialise in that cool jazz/blues which is instrumental, like the theme tune out of the BBC 90s Sitcom Bottom.

I play a little classical guitar (mostly Fernando Sor stuff) and a little jazz guitar (John Scofield, Pat Methany), but I don't know enough about either forms to call myself a classical or jazz player.

I like both kinds of music.

Tim

I enjoy classical music up to a point, so count me as a fan of it.

Classical: pretty much all of it. As a fan, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Barber, Palestrina, Victoria, Purcell, Vaughan Williams.
As a composer, I've been influenced by Harrison Birtwistle, Machaut, Stravinsky, Bartok, Boulez, Ferneyhough, Messiean, Carter.

Some Jazz: Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Pat Metheny.

I am a new fan of jazz and I absolutely love it. For the past 8 months I've been downloading lossless files, ripping CDs I've borrowed from the library, and even bought an LP of a 47 year old Miles Davis album. Miles Davis, Bill Evans , Clifford Brown, Max Roach and John Coltrane are my favorites. For Jazz vocals Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald are tremendous. Nothing better on a hot summer day than listening to jazz!!

Since you are a trombonist, you may be interested in a 'plunger' named Al Grey, who played in Count Basie's orchestra and formed his own jazz groups.

I also have been a classical music fan for many years, but recently, I've listening to a lot more different works performed by artists I had never heard of before. Conductors such as Furtzwangler, Carlos Kleiber and Talich. Pianists such as Richter and violinists such as Kogan. I am enjoying Schubert's string quartets by The Melos Quartet and Brahms Cello Sonatas performed by Rostropovich and Serkin.

I think I will give Wagner and Mozart operas a try although I am not really a fan of opera.

So much music to listen to, so little time, so little hard drive space ot archive it.