Are musicians the only people that still like Jazz?

When I studied music in college, my fellow musicians loved Jazz. Then I started to notice that, in general, people who stated that they loved Jazz were musicians and the people who didn't care for it weren't musicians. Do you think this is a pretty accurate observation?

no!
I'm a musician and I play the Saxaphone and personnally I like Jazz.
But a friend of mine is not a musician and he likes jazz, in-fact for his birthday last year we went to watch the UK youth Jazz Orchestra (his idea)

I'd guess the vast majority of Jazz lovers are musicians, but there are non musicians out there who like it too.

Jazz is such a wide scope these days. I detest "Trad" jazz but love some of the other stuff out there. Went to a jazz/rock concert by National Health once, enjoyed every minute but couldn't remember a note when I came out. I play guitar as a hobby but wouldn't call myself a musician.

no no and no because im so not a musician but i love jazz artists in paticular love jazz because its art in its own way. its jsut that most people who listen to jazz have more of a feel for it then lets say people who only hear it when they change a station . know what i mean.

I would say so. I'm a musician as well, and I've noticed the same thing. Only musicians love jazz. I think it has to do with a musician being able to appreciate the music, and therfore having a better love for it. I love jazz though~

Nah I like all music from jazz to hip-hop, country to classical, new age to rock. Good music, is good music no matter what the genre.

I hate to say it, but I think it's true. Don't know why that is though.

Could be. I'm not a musician and neither was my father. Yet, he used to take me to Preservation Hall in New Orleans when I was a kid and we both loved jazz. As I got older, I built upon that traditional jazz (or Dixieland, some call it) and discovered the big bands, bebop and post bop.

One of my favorite concerts was in 1978 when McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter and Al Jackson peformed as a superstar quartet, which worked surprisingly well. Sonny brought down the house with a rousing calypso number.

Never have gotten into the "smooth" jazz, which is just elevator music with soprano sax or cut-rate guitar playing. I prefer a fat trumpet blast or a growling, bluesy tenor sax with double bass and a smart drummer to that over-produced sludge, which a radio programmer once told me was made for "continuity of sound"- remind you of the idea behind Muzak?

Without the fans, there would be no jazz, musicians or not.

I love jazz, and I'm learning to play the clarinet.

I guess not all the time, but when you play a jazz instrument you learn to appreciate the music since you are more exposed to it and realize how awesome it is.

That is how I felt anyway, and ever since I started playing the clarinet I have grown to love jazz music and Benny Goodman, lol =] [ I never disliked jazz as a matter of fact I thought swing dancing was really cool and I liked the music but when I started to play I realized how hard it was to play all these instruments and saw Jazz for what it really is; true music]

I also love classical music, which I liked before I played an instrument but like with jazz I like it even more now than I did before, I think because now I am exposed to it more and know how hard it is and how cool it is to play an instrument and produce those sounds.
Basically I think most [not all] people who don't play a music instrument take jazz for granted because they don't understand how unique the music is.

I'm not a musician.. but I've started to love Jazz..

I think musicians tend to get off on the virtuosity exhibited in jazz more than the casual listener. To those of us that play, we love trying to figure out how Jaco created that harmonic, or how Stanley Jordan can play lead and rhythm at the same time on the same guitar, or exactly how Dennis Chambers or Steve Jordan even thought up that beat. Others will just say, "That sounds pretty cool." That's why those of us that play drive those that don't crazy while listening to jazz.

I adore jazz and I ain't no musician. I do have many musician friends and worked in the music industry, but I loved Jazz even before all that. My dad instilled in me the love of Jazz music.