If you have to put an adjective in front or behind the word ’Jazz’, there might be a problem. If it’s "Jazz Blues Fusion", you KNOW there is a problem.
I speak from experience. Traditionalist are not born, they are created by personal experience. Believe it or not, I paid good / real money for the CD "Corky Siegel Plays the Blues". I was deceived by the word ’blues’.
I also paid for the Jean Rampal LP.
You would be surprised at the junk on my shelves as a result of trying to be ’progressive’, or ’avant-garde’.
We don’t go to the MET to hear the "American" Tosca. We go to hear the Opera ’Tosca’, in Italian! Same with Jazz. I don’t understand what the term ’Italian Jazz’ means. Is there a polish Jazz? Or heaven forbid, Croatian Jazz?
Jazz is Jazz. And it’s a lot more than just improvised music. And it’s American.
Cheers