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Originally Posted by elijah.s7
jazz is mostly for musicians because its really not about pleasure or even about about music as like classical music is about music, its about you, its about extending your limits of playing, expressing your nature through playing in a solo, sometimes it is even egoistic and a sort of competition between players who will out play who..in just a few chords of a particular piece that is bebop.
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Your description of bebop is so truncated and general that it is pretty much useless. It's more applicable to rock than to bop jazz.
Bop isn't about being egoistic, it's about losing ego by playing what is in your heart at that moment. It is existential music, so of-the-moment that it melts away as it being played--like snowflakes landing on your hand.
There's no reason a listener can't get pleasure from as much as a musician just as with any other style of music.
Basically, if you can only listen to appreciate because you can't enjoy--stop listening.