so whats jazzing anno 2014
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no at all up on any recent jazz acts but coincidentally heard this yesterday, uk jazz trio.. pretty nice!!
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- Bob Power (The Roots, Erykah Badu, DAngelo) New York 2013
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TomO is a Strutter.
Get The Blessing - Lop and Antilope
Chicago Underground Duo - Locus
Mark Guiliana / Brad Mehldau - Mehliana: Taming the Dragon
Kris Bowers - Heroes and Misfits
Vijay Iyer - Mutations
Ben Allison - The Stars Look Very Different
Kneebody - The Line
Derrick Hodge - Live Today
Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit (easily the best male jazz vocal album of the past 10 years)
Too lazy to youtube them...but they are all well worth checking
Despite being technically great, it seems to lack any individual detail. If his voice was a person, it would be a storefront mannequin.
But he's pretty much got the under-70 male jazz singer genre* to himself, so yeah Greg, fill your boots.
*Connick and Cullum are singing pianists, no?
That's not how you spell p*nis.
I think that Menagerie track is my favourite thing so far. Perfect music for mornings on the weekend, sipping a coffee on the porch.
Wish I had suggestions to contribute. I am grateful to everyone who has posted!
This is a good way of finding out about a lot of new Jazz that would otherwise be completely off my radar: http://tokyojazznotes.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1
To my ears this is an awful crooner version. The clip doesn't make it better.
Brrrr.
Edit: Like the stuff Astro posted! Proper skills.
I like the way she pitches a bit like a mute trumpet, and the darker chords - When I think about the OG, I don't think it's solemn enough for the lyric. Stripe-and-spliff headnodding while the bloodshed unfolds - I dunno, Kingston man speak on it.
YMOV.
Man on the moon from Production Peanut on Vimeo.
Nicola Conte: nujazz veteran, is about to release a new album on Schema records, featuring Timo Lassy (all of whose stuff is great, really)
Takuya Kuroda: Japanese trumpeter living in the US, recently released an album on Blue Note, produced by Jos├® James. Many funk and afro-beat influences, really good.