It just happens naturally. So, it's more of a crossover. Cunningham I was always a guy who would go to a record store and buy an Ornette Coleman record and a Steely Dan record, and I would always find myself listening to the Steely Dan record more. That was how I made my decision about what kind of career path to take. When it becomes even slightly familiar to people, it invariably wins them over.
Jazz can be immensely complicated and brooding.
As often as it can sound happy or sweet or shy, it also can be abstract, remote, churning, even upsetting. Elements which contributed to jazz were the rhythms of W. Africa, European harmony, and Amer. 'gospel' singing. 1 A kind of music, originally improvised but now arranged, characterized by syncopation, rubato, unusually heavily accented rhythms, dissonances, individualized melodic variations, and unusual tonal effects on the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone etc. A recent type of American music, esp. A dance to jazz music.