Jazz

I don't know why, but I suddenly find myself listening to a lot of Jazz. (By suddenly, I mean over the last six months or so - a my age, that's as suddenly as I get. Anything less than that amount of time is instantaneous.)

Now, I know nothing about Jazz and as I listen to more, I realise that I know less and less. I just spent the last hour and a half watching a documentary about Jazz which covered such a wide variety of people and styles and was almost bewildering in its diversity. Some names - like Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Coutney Pine - I'd heard of, but most were completely new and ones that I'm likely not to remember until the next time I hear or see the name again.

The daunting thing is, how on earth do I learn about Jazz, absorbing all of its history, without drowning in the wealth of music that exists?