You're a newby to jazz! It's GREAT! Jazz concerts attract a more upscale, better educated, more polite crowd than the average rock or rap concert venues.

I really ONLY like contemporary "smooth jazz". Artists such as "The Rippingtons", "Rick Braun", "Richard Elliot", "Chris Botti", "Nils", "Peter White", "Boney James", "Sade".

Go to the festival. You'll have fun. Expand your musical horizons...