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Fantastic record. It’s nice to see any kind of spotlight shined on jazz but don’t let nostalgia for the past stop you from discovering the elite music being created today. So many jazz message boards and higher ed curriculums focus exclusively on the jazz of the 40s and 50s. Miles for one would have disapproved.

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Strongly agree. See artists such as Domi and JD Beck, Snarky Puppy, Jesus Molina, Sungazer, Greg Mehldau, Sullivan Fortner... The list goes on.

There are some extremely great jazz musicians out there today.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will surely give them a try. The only recent Jazz musician that I have heard is Kamasi Washington.

Julian Lage and Kurt Rosenwinkle are another couple of guitarists to check out. Deep Song, by Kurt, and Gladwell, by Julian, are great entry points into their music!

Kamasi is a current darling. Right now two schools are en vogue: a more fusiony, dancable crossover kind where groups like Snarky Puppy, Mononeon, Thundercat and Sungazer are up front, and a more traditionally anchored, but edgier sonic architecture is applied kind of school populated by Kamasi, James Hurt, Robert Glasper, Daniel Casimir, Shabaka Hutchings, and anything on the Brownswood or Jazz Re:freshed labels...

I would try Jazzmeia Horn on vocals. She is an absolute monster.

Mark Guiliana on drums is as good as anyone ever too.

Tigran Hamasyan is my tip of the day. Amazing jazz-armenian fusion!

Great suggestions! I would expand that list with a couple more modern recommends, like Kamasi Washington, Shabaka And The Ancestors, Nubya Garcia, or even Portico Quartet. Some Jazz/fusion-adjacent acts as well, such as BADBADNOTGOOD, The Comet is Coming, or Thundercat. The genre is thriving today.

taking the coattails of your comment with great artists to throw out The Bad Plus. Fantastic body of work, highly creative and absolutely rocking jazz band. Granted, I'm most familiar with their Ethan Iverson discography. Dave King (drummer) is exciting as hell to watch.

To the uninitiated but curious - start with their mind blowing covers and branch out from there.

Dave King also has a truly hilarios Youtube channel called "Rational Funk": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-hfpvwivg

It's a series of satirical "inspirational" drum instruction videos. Sadly, he stopped making new episodes a while ago.

oh heck yeah! This flew under my radar. Excited to check this out, thanks for sharing.

Hey can you expand the list please? Just the names would be more than enough :)

Anything in the vein of Miles / Coltrane / Ornette Coleman etc

>Snarky Puppy

I always read that name as Skinny Puppy and it happened this time too

Yeah, you and me both, always getting excited for nothing, now especially since they stopped touring (I did get to see them on their last run, though!)

I've always been into Coil and TG and proper industrial and never really got into Skinny Puppy until lately but I really like it. Stairs and Flowers might as well be labelled "dub hiphop". I think I was just expecting some Front 242 / KMFDM / NIN kind of band and that's there, but there's also something really unique there, too.

Watching Snarky Puppy during the recording of We Like It Here is quite joyful.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL52RKVKBFM328OwddSMRQS9BY...

Dang. Now that's a group of people who are picking up what the others are putting down. Not my usual type of music but I'd gladly attend a concert.

Wow, a lot of great suggestions. I have been stuck in the Spotify bubble with Miles on repeat. Not sure even how would this work but, here is the invite to the Spotify playlist to which I am trying to add all of the suggestions. Feel free to edit it: https://tinyurl.com/HNJazz

Any modern trumpet players you love?

Yes! Terence Blanchard is still around and sounding great, and from the generation after him I’d single out Ambrose Akinmusire and Avashai Cohen.

I am huge fan of Sheila Maurice-Grey and Kokoroko. She plays super chill like Miles too.

I would put Cassie Kinoshi on sax as my fav sax player too.

I don't know how any Jazz fan could not love Kokoroko.

Don't take this wrong, but So What?

https://youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c

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