OK, not exactly Jazz, but I have pondered for the last few years why I have a developing interest in pop music from the 1920's. I remember listening to old records when I was a kid, so perhaps the taste was kindled then.
My musical taste has always been a bit weird- and in fact, apart from the usual pop greats from my youth (Beatles, etc) I did pick up a taste for offbeat stuff from The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band and The Temperance Seven, both of which, were big in the sixties. Both of these played 1920's music, and pastiche stuff very like it.
It's certainly a revelation to hear modern musicians playing 1920's music- which can have far more impact when listening without the crackle and pop of old recordings.
Anyway- my musical tastes seem like poison in the ears of my nearest and dearest, and I guess, who can blame them!
As for my age, I don't know whether that does have a bearing on it, it's not nostalgia, or at least, not MY nostalgia, as I'm not a hundred years old!
