Post 1989 Jazz

You are clearly nothing but a troll impersonating (badly) another troll

Say No to post 1989 talentless 'button pressing' trolls and celebrate the pre 89 masters of withering polemic, innovative slander and bare faced cheek

moved to 'just for fun'  

Ahem, yes ... testing 

to be honest i wish i knew more post-89 jazz, but i might just be being modest, as there is more pre-89 jazz than there is post-89 jazz.

however what i do know is very good. I think this site (love it, by the way ) explains it best: "jazz has taken on so many genres and influences that creating easily definable genres is becoming increasingly difficult"

since pre-89 jazz has been around so long, well documented, romanticized, and such, it's easier to seek out the best and have a very good collection. It seems to be the other way around for later jazz, not to mention less people (at least in America) listen to jazz than they used to even in the 80s.

i had a thread over at PA about who the big names in jazz were TODAY, and it made me realize there is good stuff going on, even in 2011. it's just that there is less information about the artists and the albums, etc. But it's the music that counts anyway i guess

...end of first post/rant

Post 89 Jazz thread - we really need Walter digs here - but I have no idea to be honest

I wonder if there really is more pre-89 jazz than post? There's certainly more well-known, but pre-89, there was sort of a cap on how much could be released (record labels and all that) but now that doesn't exist.

idlero wrote: So, are we talking about quantity vs quality?

We just need the JMA equivalent of Walter

Nathaniel607 wrote: I wonder if there really is more pre-89 jazz than post? There's certainly more well-known, but pre-89, there was sort of a cap on how much could be released (record labels and all that) but now that doesn't exist.

Besides the fact that there's almost 90 years of recordings as opposed to 23 years, even with a cap on the amount released, you also have to take into consideration, albums that came out after 1989 but recorded before 1989, such as posthumous releases by a deceased artist, or archived live albums that didn't come out until after 1989; that's still pre-'89 jazz, even though it came out later.

Cannonball With Hat wrote: darkshade wrote: We just need the JMA equivalent of Walter   If I must...

You don't have to. We just have to wait for that person to emerge from the darkness.