I plan to really dive into modal jazz in the coming days. It's an area I didn't pay enough attention to in high school; it offers unbridled creativity without the obligation to play a hundred notes a minute. Modes would be so much easier for me to remember if somebody hadn't fucked up and misnamed all of them, so you have the Greek modes, and the modern modes, and they're all basically the same names, just mixed up and AHHH.
Wynton Marsalis is a phenomenal musician, and it's cool he spoke out against the ridiculous aspects of hip-hop, but he also thinks everything Miles Davis did from In a Silent Way to the end is garbage, and we all know that simply isn't true.
Please add more thoughts because I need to take a nap.