I may not understand jazz – but I know enough to know it’s wonderful | Adrian Chiles

It's one of the most baffling of all art forms, and the most mocked. Laugh all you like; these musicians are working miracles

I went to watch some jazz and everyone laughed at me. Family, friends, anyone on the bus who heard me and my friend talking on the way there, all sniggering, scoffing, smirking. There ought to be a jazz standard called Sniggering, Scoffing, Smirking.

What's so funny? I think that Fast Show sketch is partly to blame - John Thomson as Louis Balfour, host of a TV programme called Jazz Club, brilliantly, if unfairly, sending up an entire genre of music. Fans of classical music, opera, drill, grime, folk, punk or whatever don't get this kind of treatment. If you're into jazz you're to be mocked, because you're either an old fart, a fervent hipster or a chin-stroking pseud. Or possibly all three. I'm none of those, arguably.