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Originally Posted by jackhammer
Weather Report? John Zorn?
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I'm familiar with both. Neither represent to me what the jazz greats of the forties and fifties accomplished. Jazz took on a new identity after 1967 and became a characteristically different genre than its early predecessors. I guess people got bored with the improvisational style of jazz legends, maybe not, but jazz albums are too tightly structured nowadays.
I'm not suggesting it was a decline in jazz composers; Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus composed through the sixties. But their later compositions mimicked the structures and chord progressions of jazz rock fusion instead of delivering it raw and unadulterated.
I don't want to seem like a purist, but great jazz albums nowadays are few and far between. There's just not enough interest for jazz.
