ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines six categories that Wynton Marsalis and other so-called neotraditionalists upheld as marking jazz’s identity, value, and meaning during the 1980s and 1990s. With Marsalis and the people and institutions with which he is most closely associated—Lincoln Center, the writers Albert Murray and Stanley Crouch, the Ken Burns documentary—now moved to the margins of jazz relevance, the chapter explores which aspects of the neotraditionalists’ formerly dominant jazz narrative are likely to persist and which of these will change, recede, or vanish as we head into what we can now call the postneotraditional era.
