I’d love to see a resurgence of real jazz, mainly because it would improve the quality of pop music.
Beato and a couple of the Steely Dan session guitar guys talk along those lines in his new video...saying that rock and pop went into decline when the bebop knowledge base was lost in the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h0kgHWb6mc
Saw that. I watch every Beato video pretty much as soon as it comes out.
It’ll make crappy Muzak
I remember the day I was just switching channels on the TV, and I came across a concert on the PBS station with these four guys that looked like they were in a typical rock band, but they were playing jazz.
It was The Pat Metheny Group, and it totally changed everything for me. I rushed out to the local Peaches and got every Metheny album I could get my hands on. It was my gateway into Jazz. Before that, I couldn’t have come up with the names of any jazz musicians.