I'm thinking of a couple of groups I know, one of them a local audio club, where anything that isn't strictly within the classic Blue Note mold isn't worthy of being called jazz and they'll have nothing to do with it. It doesn't apply to everyone of course, but I notice that the same stuffiness happens in all musical styles.As for wanting the same BN album over and over; that's not really true of us jazz purists (at least me and my LP friends)...it's more of simply a desire to create within the realm of those musical elements that underscore what came to be known as "jazz".
I guess I'm too restless musically to let anything pass me by--if I like it, it's all good. I grew up listening to a few of the Verve albums, especially Tjader--my mother was a fan, and she also had purchased a few of the CTI albums on A&M as well as something like Deodato's Prelude. So I've long been familiar with the CTI sound and