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Perception Shapes What You Hear
- Perceiving modern jazz musicians as homogenous often reflects a listener's limited exposure or algorithmic bias.
- Adam argues that seeing sameness can be more about who you follow than the scene itself.
History Amplifies Individuality
- Historic icons like Monk, Brubeck, Powell felt radically different partly because time magnified their differences.
- Peter notes many contemporaries sounded more similar in their own era than retrospectives suggest.
Naming Today's Influential Pianists
- Adam lists contemporary pianists he finds distinctive and predicts future retrospectives will credit them.
- He treats their current influence as evidence against the 'all sound the same' claim.