Today Is...International Jazz Day

I'm almost certain Jazz wasn't a thing in Dante's day because if it was i am sure he would have found a circles of hell for it which isn't the best opening for a post to celebrate all things Jazz i admit but it gets better because thanks to Jazz, we have people like Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Eric Clapton, Kurt Cobain, Buddy Holly, David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler.
Leo Fender set out to create a guitar specifically to crack the Jazz market and designed it with switches and channels to perfect the sound of Jazz and even shaped it so it could be played sitting down as most jazz guitarists did but he underestimated the tastes of people who think the height of cool is a fedora hat, and they ignored it but it did find an audience with the upcoming rock 'n' rollers and Surf guitarists and the Stratocaster and Telecaster became the must have for all the cool kids.
So it wasn't the target audience he was aiming at and instead of Dizzy Gillespe he got Izzy Stradlin from Guns N Roses who in my opinion is much cooler but back in it's day Jazz was the Punk of it's time, only with less safety pins and more body wash.
In the '20s and '30s jazz joints were being shut down, viewed as an existential threat to people's mental health and even unborn fetuses with the physical effects of rambling saxophone solos and improvised drum fills being accused of causing miscarriages and even being banned by law as 'a public nuisance'.
Musical taste is obviously subjective and my parents had no truck with the music i listen to as i have no ear for the music my kids play today so to say one genre sucks over another would be folly, which obviously i have just done, oh well.