I'll wager most people have never heard of him.
There was a jazz/fusion/younameit FM station in Mountain View in the early 80s called KPEN. They got copies of Tibbetts' first two albums (eponymous, and "Yr") directly from him and gave them some airplay. I was hooked, told some friends, and I put together a group buy of his first two albums' self-pressings. So I have autographed self-pressings of his first two albums... with his own original cover art... from 1980!
For those who want to check out his early stuff, check out the song "Sure" on his first album, and the song "Three Primates" on Yr.
KPEN's license frequency, 97.7FM, is now KFOG's South Bay broadcast frequency. KPEN's studio was in the long-defunct Old Mill shopping center, later the big HP development on Central Expressway.
Is it 18-35 year olds? Is the people who grew up around the millennium? That group must be ageing by now. Then why millennials’ habits matter so much?
Start from the beginning, with "The Lonely Bull".
Alpert also gave The Carpenters their first record deal.
The musical "generation gap" was a strange 20th century artifact brought on by the fact that the only music you could access freely was what was brought to the store in your neighborhood on a truck (or the ads that played on the radio to sell said music).
Modern day listeners can just type a name and follow a rabbit hole as deep as the history of recorded music. If you're just a kid exploring, you experience Lady Gaga and Duran Duran on equal footing and click both into you favorites with equal effort.
Its a golden age.