Silly generalizations borne of ignorance. > Anything since the 70s and rise of smooth jazz is just rehashed mockery ...oh dear... > someone perform Giant Ste

Silly generalizations borne of ignorance. > Anything since the 70s and rise of smooth jazz is just rehashed mockery ...oh dear... > someone perform Giant Steps note-for-note, or do a perfect Ella Fitzgerald dunno who's doing the former outside of Berklee practice rooms. And while hotels give venues to the latter, the heirs to Ella are people like Adele and Erykah Badu. But maybe I'm just yelling into the wind; to a sufficiently snobbish snob, isn't everything "just rehashed mockery of a thing that once was"? Holding the past too preciously and scorning the present for its difference (while at the same time blaming it for that) is an unassailable position in the worst possible way...