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The Sound of Contemporary Jazz · Playlist · 295 songs · 1.8K likes.
- Esperanza Spalding
- Brad Mehdlau
- Vijay Iyer
- Kurt Rosenwinkel
- Jason Moran
- Ambrose Akinmusire
- Marius Neset
- Kamasi Washington
Esperanza Spalding has exploded onto the scene in the last decade or so, as her unique mixture of double bass-playing and singing(often at the same time) has captivated audiences. She was born in 1986 in Portland, Oregon, before studying (like so many contemporary jazz musicians) at Boston’s famous Berklee College of Music. She was hired as a doubl...
Brad Mehldau started making waves on the New York jazz scene in the early 1990s, having studied at the New School with classmates including guitarist Peter Bernstein and pianist (and now jazz club owner) Spike Wilner. As a pianist, Mehdlau’s jazz pedigree is indisputable – his early work in particular displays deep study of straight ahead keyboard ...
Vijay Iyer is a true polymath: to refer to him merely as a jazz pianist really doesn’t do him justice. In addition to recording a number of albums with his piano trio, which features Stephan Crump and Marcus Gilmore on bass and drums respectively, the American has also composed orchestral concert music, published various writings and collaborated w...
Kurt Rosenwinkel has gone from being a ‘musicians musician’, who was largely lauded by jazz students and aficionados, to something of a bonafide guitarhero, who has collaborated with Eric Clapton. He made early appearances in the bands of jazz elder statesman – Gary Burton, Joe Henderson and Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band – before forming a popu...
As an indication of Moran’s impact upon modern jazz, the 2010 Jazz Critics’ Poll for the best albums of the year featured four albums on which he had played. His own record Ten topped the poll, while albums by Bunky Green and Rudresh Mhanthappa, Charles Lloyed and Paul Motian, on all of which he had appeared as a sidemen, also appeared in the top t...
Like Vijay Iyer and a number of other modern jazz luminaries, Akinmusire was mentored by Steve Coleman, playing with the saxophonist’s Five Elements band on a European tour after Coleman heard the young trumpeter playing with the Berkley High School Jazz Ensemble. Akinmusire, who has often collaborated with saxophonist and fellow California native ...
While the modern jazz landscape can often feel rather New York-dominated, there are strong contemporary jazz scenes in major cities across the world, and around Europe in particular. There is a long history of northern European musicians fusing traditional jazz techniques with a more pastoral aesthetic – the distinctive music produced by German lab...
Saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s The Epic was the surprise breakout hit in 2015, attracting the attention of mainstream music journalists and listeners and thrusting him into the limelight. His intense brand of contemporary spiritual jazzcarries shades of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders and seems to work particularly well in big festivals and ven...
Nov 22, 2021 · The Best Jazz Albums of 2021. Featuring Sons of Kemet, Pat Metheny, Rosie Frater-Taylor, Julian Lage and more, all of these outstanding albums were reviewed in the 2021 issues of Jazzwise and all were selected as Editor's Choice.
- Charles Waring
- Shabaka Hutchings. Born in London and raised in Barbados, Hutchings is an award-winning multi-reed player who can alternate between saxophone and clarinet.
- Kamasi Washington. One of the reasons that contemporary jazz is reconnecting with young people is down to the appeal of this LA-born saxophonist’s transformative 2015 debut album, a sprawling triple-set called The Epic, on which he morphed from a journeyman-like saxophonist-for-hire into an inspirational apostle of spiritual jazz.
- Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. From jazz’s birthplace, New Orleans, this contemporary jazz artist is a trumpeter with a clear, burnished tone who acknowledges the tradition of the music but sees the future of jazz in a fusion of alt.rock, African music, movie soundtracks, and hip-hop.
- Esperanza Spalding. Sounding like a young Joni Mitchell fronting Return To Forever on steroids, this Portland-born singer, composer, and bass virtuoso is extending the frontiers of jazz with boundary-breaking music that embraces rock, funk, Latin, jazz fusion, and the avant-garde.
Listen to the best artists of today, who deliver fresh and original jazz tunes, with a wide and inventive range of styles. Explore the new directions and discoveries of the current jazz world, and marvel at the richness and variety of this progressive and imaginative music.
Nov 25, 2021 · The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2021. Thursday, November 25, 2021. The votes are in! Featuring outstanding releases from Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Gretchen Parlato, Georgia Mancio, Songs of Kemet, Jaimie Branch and many more...
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