[rocketeer]

Sadly there is no modern music because there are no real musicians any more. It's all just noise; off key, off tempo, and out of synch with no semblance of a tune buried in there somewhere. So called modern jazz is tantamount to scratching your nails across a chalkboard. Benny Goodman, Harry James, and Jack Teagarden would play circles around the wannabes.

As for vocals, I'm certain there are some great voices out there but unless they are good looking and can gyrate they don't get a shot and if they do the vocal is processed into mush. Raise your hand if you can understand every word being "sung". I'll take Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, or Julie London any day over anyone out there today. Think about this, with her looks it's unlikely that Ella Fitzgerald would ever get a shot in today's music industry. She wasn't pretty, and didn't dance or gyrate, she could just sing the doors off the place and that simply wouldn't be enough.

If you want to see and hear some really special musicians search youTube for Hazel Scott and Dorothy Donegan, two phenominal piano players. Watch Hazel play two pianos at the same time, one with each hand. I was impressed.