everything is going these days, are my feelings correct? The knights templar state it dosent really move it remains static.Its just perceptions from young people who are trying to dig it.Art is Art no matter what it is.The problem is education of the masses,something that is a problem with everything not just jazz. For example read this forum, under jazz saxophone, there is little or nothing to do with jazz.See how the character kenny Gee gets most attention who in the knights view cant play and certainly does not play jazz. So quality has to be understood by the minority sadly. In conclusion when jazz is being pushed then all other forms of music and development will follow.Social ,economic factors play their part,such as smashing all exsisting values and rebelious youth.Sadly the youth of today do not understand individuality,creative rebellious action.But for a select band in the world who live , breath, believe jazz, and fight for it all the way.(Bird lives)

Yeah, I hate this generation. I think I would've fit in better back when jazz and swing were more prevalent. But anyway, what do you base your predictions on?

Popular music always seems to be just one step behind what the dance producers are doing. If you look now at electronic music, everything is starting to be fused with Funk, Jazz and Hip-Hop. Once obscure genres like Electro Funk, Glitch Funk, Glitch Hop are becoming more and more popular so it can't be long before the mainstream artists follow in those foot steps. My prediction is soon we will not be going back to our roots but instead, picking up where jazz was left off and continue evolving it's iconic sound. In my opinion we have already started.

 

Your feelings are quite correct, yet many people are too ignorant to even analyze jazz before they judge it. When you ask ignorant fools about jazz, they immediately think of some kind of marching music. Then I sit them down and play them some Chris Potter, Miles Davis, Bird, Trane and their opinions change. The problem with jazz is that no one will give it a chance to come in to their souls.