An alive genre would be having albumns that people know; it would be scintillating with new work and its defenders not having to mine niche areas to claim relev

An alive genre would be having albumns that people know; it would be scintillating with new work and its defenders not having to mine niche areas to claim relevance. Unreleased work would be cool, but it should not be dominant, because the world should have moved on. I would agree that there is an inbreeding problem with jazz - artists doing it for artists; or worse, doing it for an aging generation. Nuances and art for arts sake lose the essential of the socio-cultural roots of jazz, which is an entertainment form that stomps its way through a dance floor or a blues howl of sorrow. Electroswing is much closer to the vibe of Dixieland than, say, the late Miles Davis.