Jazz for aficionados

«Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn’t play like Wynton.»
-- Chet Baker

Now reading this quote by Chet Baker about Wynton Marsallis, i imagine that each one of these 4 great musicians will say the same thing about each others...

The reason for this is certainly expressed the best by the late Quincy Jones :

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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

is this jazz being improvisation or classical being scripted?

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1853683665647124680

This video is a bit contorted expression of a truth :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrp-2JPSoYE

One commentary under it give a gist of it :

«The problem with modern jazz is that, to a considerable extent, it is being written and performed by college professors instead of drug addicts.»

 I am myself not a musician and not competent to give my opinion. But i like the less virtuosity and i love the best expression. Also i listen more with my heart than with my brain.  It is perhaps why i love Chet Baker and Bill evans so much...

Or Armstrong and  Miles Davis before some point in time.

Also i like some european and Japan jazz...Paradoxically because it is a bit away from jazz roots...

Your opinion is always valued, mahgister. Case in point:

**** some european and Japan jazz...Paradoxically because it is a bit away from jazz roots ****

Very true.

To your comments I would only add that virtuosity does not necessarily mean lack of great expression. But I believe you know that.

I am not a musician and i trust your knowledge because i know enough about you to think your opinion are way more musically informed than mine.

Once this is said, I admire the artists above i quoted even if i prefer some to others.

Virtuosity and expression goes always together in all great musician as the one i quoted above.

But if some touch us more than others there must be a reason , the encounter of my subjectivity with a specific style mixing expressivity in some way with some aspects of virtuosity is the cause.

When we interrogate ourselves about our taste we learn less about music than about ourselves for sure...

I tried many suggestions of people here as yours and thanks to all i discovered many great i did not knew . This thread is very important for me ...

Jazz is a tree way bigger now than his roots, which it cannot quit save at the price of dying but the canopy is so rich than i am fascinated by his exploration especially in European jazz...

My best to all and thanks to everyone suggestions and remarks...