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Call me an old fart, but there are so many young cats- 25 on down, that don't know any tunes. A lot of them play with some good bands but for me I can hear holes in their playing. It seems like a lot of the younger generation's jazz ed starts with Wayne Shorter and nothing before. Some of them have so much talent but to the educated ear they're missing a big chunk of it. I'm not saying you need to know every tune and every record but for me there is a certain amount of homework that needs to be done. You can hear that cats like Miguel Zenon, Mark Turner, Brad Meldau, Jeremy Pelt did their home work. Some of these cats coming up after them are using Mark Turner as a starting point and not checking out Trane, Warne Marsh, and forget about somebody checking out Prez. I'm Old Fashioned I guess.