It'll go wherever we take it...

Johnny Griffin

I once asked a musician where jazz was going and he said, "It'll go wherever we take it, we're the musicians." And I don't know of a really better answer. One thing I do know about the future of jazz is that nobody has adequately or accurately predicted it. Nobody in the swing era predicted bebop, nobody in the bebop era predicted the avant garde, and certainly nobody in the avant garde predicted fusion.

Some young musician's gonna come along, hopefully it'll be someone really thrilling like Armstrong or Parker, but somebody of extraordinary gifts, and he or she will play a music that no one else has heard and that will be the next movement. And unless you're that musician, you can't really know what that's gonna be.
Gary Giddens