Well, yeah. Trane ruined jazz, right? So did Bird. Hell, so did Louis Armstrong.
What is there to "ruin" anyway (other than business opportunities)? None of this shit is set in stone or "guaranteed" anyway...it's
"popular music", and when the "populace" needs to move on, they do. I mean, music can be anything, anyway...what catches on catches on by consensus between musician and audience, not by some divine edict or something.
So....I just don't get what the "problem" is, if he's in fact claiming there is one, and...I'll take y'all's word on that one. Cat's apparently got a lot of books about...stuff.
Too much math for R&B.