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aflowerchild:
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The best jazz in the world.

Akima:

--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 27 Sep 2009, 15:12 ---Now here comes my main point.  All of that stuff has been around for forty years.  It's awesome, but it's not exactly current, which makes it not exactly relevant to modern times.
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<rant>I like jazz a lot, and yeah, I like the "classics" like Miles Davis and especially Jimmy Smith. And I don't buy for a second the bullshit argument that forty-year-old music is somehow "not relevant". I listen to Sibelius (last major work 1926), J.S.Bach (died 1750) and traditional Chinese music dating back to the Tang dynasty, and I wouldn't call any of it irrelevant. Great music is eternal. Music that isn't eternal isn't great.</rant> Ahem... Getting back on topic, of newer stuff:


* Clarion Fracture Zone:  Aussie quintet. Pretty much any of their albums, but I especially like Zones On Parade.
* Galapagos Duck:  Another Aussie band. Try their album Habitat. Not thrilled with their latest stuff, but inextricably tied to my student years and live gigs at The Basement.
* Eternal Jazz Project:  Swedish.
* Drop Trio:  Mathy organ funk. Gotta love it.
* Chris Juergensen:  I recently bought his Prospects and I like it a lot. Some of the guitar-heads round here might like it too.
I'd echo the Nora Jones recommendations above, though her latest stuff is a bit too "country" for me. Jane Monheit has a fabulous voice. Early Diana Krall was enjoyable, though she's a better pianist than singer, before they started pouring gooey strings over her arrangements.

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