I just read an excellent essay on this period of modern jazz being referred to as a sort of "Renaissance" that Brad Mehldau wrote and included in his liner notes to his excellent album "Art of the Trio Volume 4". Read it here.
The whole essay is wonderfully written and contains some interesting food-for-thought. Scholarly approaches to music are interesting and also very important for fully grasping what it is we are listening to, I think. My favorite quote from the essay happens to be the closing thought:
"To close I offer a scenario: If all the written music in the world suddenly burned up in a flash, who could do a gig the same night, regardless?" - Brad Mehldau, 1999
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