Well, the problem is that music theory is more or less exhausted. All the big shifts in Jazz during the 20th century were breakthroughs in applied music theory (new rhythms, new tambres, new uses of harmony, new song forms). That pattern extends back well before the 20th century in western music – e.g., the differences between the baroque, classical, and romantic eras. By the late 20th century, the space of possible music was at least roughly completely mapped out with representative samples to be found from just about every region of that space. Everything from here on out is derivative of the past in a way that it wasn’t, say, 40 years ago. Among the genres, Jazz alongside orchestral and chamber were the forms most concerned with theory breakthroughs as opposed to just tweaking knobs on existing forms. Thus, those three forms have something of an existential crisis if you believe in them as “living” forms as they were back when.

-t

Indeed. Thank you very much.

-t

The Fillmore lives on!

If you stop in, tell Gloria (Glo) that Keith sent you.

for my rainy jazz nights I go to Joe Jackson, great musician.
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/joejackson/albums/album/321510/review/5946102/body_and_soul

LS

Our Monday night band attempts some of these charts (with limited success). Great site!