Many newcomers to the wonderful world of jazz look in with apprenhensive eyes believing that the enjoyment of the artform requires an extensive specialist knowledge of the idiom in a historical and experiential context. This serves as a significant barrier to entry for potential jazz supporters. The uninitiated perceive the music to be overly complex, requiring a level of music appreciation and intuition that is not easily attained; basically, jazz is not accessible to them. Or so they feel. But this is an oddity given that music is an intuitive field rather than a purely technical or scientific field like medicine or any other such strict academic fields. Music conveys feeling and emotion; it touches the soul and speaks to the spirit. I wonder whether this notion of jazz as a high-brow intellectual fortress of sonic communication is in fact the creation of jazz afficionados who are plainly unwelcoming and snobbish.