You've got a good memory, so something I've said must have impressed you somewhere along the line.
When music theory teachers who can't play refuse to acknowledge the connection between diminished seventh chords and flat-nine chords, as in late Beethoven's Quartet in F, then it's time for me to start calling myself a "jazzer," and split that scene. Daddy-o.I admire your chutzpah, but if you haven't taken a route through compositional academia (with the aim of entering the profession) and come out at the other end better for it as a composer and then continued with advanced studies, all the while finding out about your musical self and developing because of the study and practice, how do you even think for one minute you can call any of it hogwash?
I recognize and respect your credentials, my friend, but your life is not my life.You don't know, I do because I did it. We can disagree about sooo much more and have sooo much fun, but in this regard, you are wrong. Being confrontational is one thing, but from a base containing some ignorance doesn't seem like a smart move to me.