Huh? We're talking about chordal work here, not the improvised line. Furthermore, Leavitt
already created chord etudes.
My point is that we need many more, and they need to be more current. The ironic thing about Leavitt's work is that it was created a few short years after Kind Of Blue had already flipped the model, so to speak, but he soldiered on with his generational style. (who doesn't, after all?) And his works sound like music from the multiple decades leading up to '59, not the 60's. So what I'm saying is that the new masters need to make an updated contribution. College students should too, especially grad students. They could be required to compose etudes, and perhaps have the best ones published (at Berklee anyway).
Whew, glad we cleared that up.
But to your other points, all incorrect.
1. People
have, and continue to, study and learn those solos - ad nauseam. Pros, amatuers, college students. This is something that I know, not think.
2. And yes you CAN hear that stuff - like everywhere. That's practically all "the cats" did is bust their ass aping that album in the following years. Ensemble style, tune style and structure, and style of soloing. The evidence is revealed every single day on Sirius XM's Real Jazz. Admittedly, there are more Trane clones than Davis clones.
Perhaps you meant it has never been "surpassed" or "reached". But it most certainly has been copied, and copied, and copied.
In fact, it has a name - "Post Bop."
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