Wynton Marsalis -jam session2 at Vitoria Jazz Festival 06

I agree!

Man, I Love Wynton, he's consistently phenomenal and from what I hear, a VERY modest, nice and generous guy.

Yes, but Miles can play beautiful jazz solos.

Brownie and Lee. Thats where it's at. The father of these cats.

Miles David was probably too busy evolving musicly (and maybe snorting and shooting).

Conserving music is a good thing but don't place it higher then pioneering.

if you ever read anything about miles, he did drugs for a little while but managed to quit. he was a cool cat

Everyone can't be Miles...what he did in the 60's was irreplaceable.

But anyone who says Wynton isn't an innovator is probably just reciting shit they've heard other people - who are just as ignorant of the scope of the man's music - say. The ballets; the large ensemble stuff ( tell me Blood on the Fields wasn't innovative); the Congo Square project....the list of shit this guy can do that no one else can goes on and on and on.

AND...he still carries the torch that so many want to see extinguished for some reason. Jazz...real jazz...is the first (and in my extremely biased opinion the most important) American art form. A national treasure. Why should we feel pressure to forget the musical genius of Louis, King Oliver, Duke Ellington, etc.??? Moving forward is a great thing...but the present and future can't exist without history.

No one bitches about Alan Gilbert and the NY Phil playing Beethoven and Mahler. Could you imagine the obligatory Youtube comments, "This orchestra sounds amazing...but they're too regressive for my superior tastes."

We're all entitled to our opinions, and I do respect yours. But I think if Wynton Marsalis had picked up the torch that Duke Ellington and Count Basie passed on this would be a sad fucking day...full of Chris Botti pseudo-jazz and pop-jazz-Candy Dulfer's hot ass crack-hip hop-elevator-fusion.

Jazz will inevitably move forward. We don't need stewards for it's advancement. Conservation takes dedication and fucking stones.

Wynton's alright in my book.

(plus he can play like a MOTHERFUCKER)