San Francisco Jazz Collective

Traditionalism revisited

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 3/1/2006

Depending on your point of view, part of the jazz world is either blessed or cursed by an obsession with tradition. Many of today's most popular jazz musicians have spent years trying to master a style that was developed over forty years ago, with little interest in developments that followed. If their idols had espoused the same reactionary view of

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