Nothing to be depressed about here.

Anyone here used BIAB, RB and/or Soloist feature? You've used a stand-in then.

The difference is that Jazz and what is defined as Jazz evolves over time. What the future holds in terms of fashion and classification as Jazz is unknown, and may I say, unpredictable.

Chess is not unpredictable. There are rules and strategy which can be defined such that a calculating device/computer can be programmed to 'perform'.

Such is not the case with Jazz. Past performance can be analyzed, but future direction cannot be predicted.

Imagine Scott Joplin predicting Miles Davis. Can't happen on a human level, and will never happen in a stratified manner with computers. What is in fashion tomorrow will always surprise and refresh and redefine what we call something today.

I just heard a review and some cuts of a kid out of N.O. that's playing jazz trombone lately - just catching fire with the jazz world at large - can't recall his name, but the kid is kicking current jazz in the pants and making it something new. A computer will not do this. Sure there may be some algorithms that approximate creativity, but that's all it will ever be. The computer doesn't grow up in a neighborhood, doesn't have a life experience, doesn't have lost loves and lost dreams and hopes and desires. That's the fuel that fires creativity in reality. That's where Jazz and all other forms of music thrive. Automated performance of any kind will always be some approximation of genius, but never genius in and of itself.

Bring it on I say.

-Scott

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