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I love jazz music. I've spent two years learning Jazz tunes and some theory after 20 years focusing on rock and other genres. Something I've realized is that everything was already done in Jazz. Anything you can find in modern music that you think sounds innovative was probably already done in Jazz before the 70s. These guys were really pushing the limits of music. It's sad so many of the greats died so young because of drugs and other health issues.

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Jazz pushed the limits of what could be done by human performers improvising live on traditional instruments. There's still plenty of novelty left to find if you relax those constraints. Even back then, people were pushing beyond them, e.g. Conlon Nancarrow wrote piano music at the same time as Thelonious Monk, some of it inspired by jazz, but it sounds completely different because he used a machine to play things beyond human ability.

Now we have computers and digital audio workstation software, the possibilities are still greater.

Even dubstep surprisingly. Wobbly, groovy bass sounds (like a wheezy trumpet)

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