Jazz pushed the limits of what could be done by human performers improvising live on traditional instruments. There's still plenty of novelty left to find if yo

Jazz pushed the limits of what could be done by human performers improvising live on traditional instruments. There's still plenty of novelty left to find if you relax those constraints. Even back then, people were pushing beyond them, e.g. Conlon Nancarrow wrote piano music at the same time as Thelonious Monk, some of it inspired by jazz, but it sounds completely different because he used a machine to play things beyond human ability. Now we have computers and digital audio workstation software, the possibilities are still greater.