This is coming from an old ex-music major(my exposure to Classical), raised by a Big Band listening mother and a musician father. In the late 70's, as a teenager I listened to Rock of course
and worked as a disc jockey for a top forty station that changed their format to all country, I quit soon after...
followed the Grateful Dead around the country for a few years, have over 50 ticket stubs. Listen to lots of jazz, prefer Coltrane over Bird. Have lots of Louis Armstrong but tend to use my jazz as background music around the house. My younger friends cannot "hear" the free form style of jazz as being basically the same style as the Dead jams. If stuck with radio at work or in the car, tend to gravitate to oldies stations 60's, 70's stuff. Have over 1000 discs of various styles of music cataloged in the house, not to mention the gigs I have archived on 3 computers and the portable hard drive.
But my all time love is the Blues.....Elmore James, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker...etc.
This music just speaks to me in my soul, cannot describe why...it just makes me smile and feel good all over.