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Originally Posted by Jack Pat
If you're having difficulty in enjoying jazz, then I would suggest looking into a nu jazz band called Skalpel.
Anyways, welcome to the site. (The Cocteau Twins are great) 
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gave it a listen and its OK, I didnt run for the hills.
I guess that I (possibly like a few others - and indeed this site) tend to put things in genre boxes/labels and have opinions accordingly, when many artists dont fit in the box, or indeed could straddle 2 or more boxes (bad metaphor, I know) and jazz is a very wide box
We got chucked out a pub in Ireland once that had some sort of Jazz MTV playing rather loudly on the tv screens - After a song finished, I said to my companion something "thank god that ***t has finished" - the barman heard us and told us to drink up & leave.
Apparently according to the know-it-alls that stalk amazon reviews, the last couple of David Sylvian albums are jazz-influenced and without doubt IMO they are the worst 2 things he has ever released - manafon is an absolute dog, what a waste of such a wonderful voice