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If the Jazz artists of today are looking back and seeing how wonderful the old stuff really
was, and doing their own compositions in that style, where's the harm? While these
people may have their own style, they also see what's great about how the old greats
used to do it and feel a certain sense of honor making music in that older style.
Songwriters, artists, and whatnot do it all the time. They may put out many albums
featuring their own stuff, but you can usually see an album or two done totally in the
style of the people they were influenced by. ie, Ten Years After does a Pure Blues
album which, using their own music, follow very closely in the style of the Chicago
bluesmen of the 50s and 60s.
And besides, it's all original music, just in the style of the more retro music. If people
put out truely unique stuff, there will be people who buy it, but there are people
(like me) who love the older stuff, so those who continue on making fresh recordings
of retro jazz will have a buyer too. Besides, if you lose the old heritage, newer
generations will not have a sturdy foundation on which to build their jazz knowledge.
Sorta like the blues, which is why I'm glad for people like Martin Scorsese for
Presenting us the Blues, so we don't lose touch in the roots and the true meaning of
the genre.
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"Marino could do it."
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