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Who are the best guys/ensembles making jazz music currently? I ask out of ignorance, but I love these guys:



Edit: Was originally "Modern Jazz Thread" but I'll take all comers.
 
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That first vid has a jazz ensemble that is 2/3 white. No thanks.
 
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Before I worried about modern jazz, I'd spend some time learning to appreciate hard bop jazz from the 50's and early 60's

Sonny Rollins
Dizzy Gillespie
Sonny Stitt
Art Blakey
Oscar Peterson
Thelonious Monk

etc.
 
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Wish I knew some good modern jazz, I'm only recently getting into the classics.

The buildup on this is incredible:

 
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Better than any modern you're likely to find.

Church it up piano soloist

Hip but understated stand up bass.

Black zombie drummer (nothing moves above the wrist)

And it rocks...
 
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I broadened the thread just to get more responses. I was just curious if there was something interesting going on that I didn't know about, but this might be might be more fruitful for my Spotty playlist.
 
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Widely hailed as one of the most important jazz tunes of all time.

I don't care if you take me out listenin' to this:

 
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Does UK still offer a class in History of Jazz?

Anybody else take it and learn what "Jelly Roll" refers to?
 
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Mossip said:
Who are the best guys/ensembles making jazz music currently? I ask out of ignorance, but I love these guys:



Edit: Was originally "Modern Jazz Thread" but I'll take all comers.
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If you like big band Gordon Goodwin has a smoking band. Also, you MUST get to Comedy Off Broadway the LAST Monday of every month. DiMartino Osland Jazz Orchestra (DOJO) with basically every excellent jazz musician in Kentucky plays and it is incredible. SEriously, get it on your calendar and thank me later.
 
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backbeatcat said:
If you like big band Gordon Goodwin has a smoking band. Also, you MUST get to Comedy Off Broadway the first Monday of every month. DiMartino Osland Jazz Orchestra (DOJO) with basically every excellent jazz musician in Kentucky plays and it is incredible. SEriously, get it on your calendar and thank me later.
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Fun fact: Wycliff Gordon recently has been playing quite a bit locally. I think he may have moved close by. Check out his discography
 
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Jimmy Smith FTW!

So many great tunes but here's one of my favorite cuts: Sagg Shootin His Arrow:
 
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I used to turn my headphones up to walk past Too Many Zooz a lot on my daily commute and just took them for total ********. Who knew?
 
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Got the Charleston Jazz Festival going on this weekend. Dr Bell messed up and forgot this was the opening college football weekend.

I'm going to the Sunday session tho.

For modern jazz...even tho it's 'cool jazz' Google 'Tuesday Swings'
 
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BTW. Adam Lawson. "Second City". If you're a fan of the tenor sax, you will like this young horn.
 
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Got the Charleston Jazz Festival going on this weekend. Dr Bell messed up and forgot this was the opening college football weekend.

I'm going to the Sunday session tho.

For modern jazz...even tho it's 'cool jazz' Google 'Tuesday Swings'
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There's a reason why I don't mention the actual group. I HATE the name!
 
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Smoother side favs...

Brian Culbertson and Vincent Ingala are phenoms.
Candy Dulfer
Michael Lington
And you can never go wrong with Boney or Koz.
 
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Started picking up on some types of jazz in the early 90's when I went into the USAF and soon began playing music with brothers and sisters

Some artists I just picked randomly and they stuck
Some were non guitar players by choice because I had read Ritchie Blackmore once say that aspiring guitarists should listen to horn players and copy their phrasing etc

Some were just on the radio when I could get good jazz stations during the drive (mostly Santa Barbara and Atlanta)

Earl Kluge
George Benson
Boney James
Rick Braun

Acoustic Alchemy doesn't quite fit in there but I like a lot of their stuff

Sampled some Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and others but don't have any of their recordings

Lately I've continued to go back and pull up old blues artists but also R&B

Latest music purchases:

North Mississippi All Stars
Sam and Dave
T-Bone Walker
 
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Been into this group recently

As well as Five Alarm Funk (Eli Bennett is a hoss)

Been listening to Sonny Stitt and Clifford Brown quite a bit lately as well
 
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