What music is more popular-jazz or prog?

While prog appeals to a broader age group as time moves along, jazz now encompasses all age groups so I'd have to say jazz is still more popular in general.  The shame is that not enough of the older folks (like me) are contributing their experienced opinions of the genre online so that the generations to come will know what it was like to hear a new Miles Davis or Dave Brubeck album for the very first time.

Has to be jazz, I think.

Cannonball With Hat wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Chicapah wrote: While prog appeals to a broader age group as time moves along, jazz now encompasses all age groups so I'd have to say jazz is still more popular in general.  The shame is that not enough of the older folks (like me) are contributing their experienced opinions of the genre online so that the generations to come will know what it was like to hear a new Miles Davis or Dave Brubeck album for the very first time.   Good point, Rollie...   When reviewing an album I myself (nearing 50) try to imagine how groundbreaking it might have been back when it was first released. It's definitely not an easy task for me as it is to do so for prog (since I started listening to prog at 11 in 74), but for jazz, this is something different... since (despite being subjected at swing jazz in my childhood > thanks dad ) I only really started listening to jazz (on my own initiative) around 83, but still skimmed it somewhat back then....   The other difficult poiint to appreciate the "groundbreakingness"  of a 50's album going in the reverse direction (from the 70's to the 40's), escially coming from such a complex music style as prog... Indeed, I'm kind f at a loss to find Ornette Coleman all the hoopla about his supposedly "groudbreaking" stuff... Of course I manage it somewhat in the long run, but it might have been much easier if I'd work in jazz from the 30's until the 70's, rather than reverse..   But I'm having too much problems finding any kind of interest in be-bop or swing, finding it old-timers music to perseverate in that forward in time progression   hopefully I made sense in my ramblings           I completely understand. I do often feel underwhelmed at some of the 'great, groundbreaking' works of the greats for that very reason. Either its been done alot, or better, or whatever. Historical context is certainly important but something I take with a grain of salt nowadays.