Ok, if Vallee was the Justin Bieber of the 20s and 30s then where's our Louis Armstrong? The truth is, there's no place for him. Back then there was a fledgling jazz that he transformed into swing. What is there to transform today? Nothing.

That's why Santana plays duets with Bieber--he's the only game in town. You want an audience, you have to go through him. How does that shake out 10 years down the road

The indie scene is our only hope and even it has been largely contaminated but it's all we've got.