[samangan]

To shine a different light here in these comments, I think the recent resurgence of jazz is interesting and very special. A lot of different forces combined to make this happen, the most obvious being the trend of popular music towards hip hop and people discovering their roots. But I think the resurrection of vinyl had a large role to play here as well. Vinyl has blown up in the past few years and many young people are quickly realizing that some of the best recorded/mastered LPs were classic Jazz and Soul albums from the past century. This is a gateway drug into modern Jazz and also blends nicely with music nerds interested in obscure samples from their favorite modern artists. Also, I dont see the point in being pedantic about genre labels, but hey, its hacker news.