I don't agree that 'skill ...has disappeared from jazz' . What about Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Craig Taborn, Chris Dave, Robert Glasper, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, Wynton, Tim Berne, Roy Hargrove? I do agree that the younger musicians aren't getting the exposure that they need but that starts from us listening and supporting them.
Theme music for Daddy-O Daylie, a long-time rhyming jazz radio show host in Chicago.
"Can't sleep? Don't count sheep - Count Basie!" I used to listen to Daddy-O's noon show every day while at college. It was sad to hear this Cannonball Adderley record each day while he was in a coma in 1975, never to recover.
"Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll never meet some of our most interesting citizens!"