Jazz in the last 25 years...

[koganbot]

Just checking in so you won't think I've died or cut off my hands. I'm in the midst of another move, from Denver's west side to Denver's east.* Have ideas for posts but I want them to, you know, be good. In the meantime...

Jazz made in the last 25 years barely exists, if you go by the Wikipedia jazz overview — also if you go by my listening, which almost never includes it, or at least only includes music by people who had already made a substantial contribution prior to 1990 (though I did put Matana Roberts in my top 10 a couple years ago).

So, how wrong am I? I barely know what's there, if there's a there.

Watch on YouTube

Sonny Fortune Live at Sweet Rhythm 9-11-09 "In Waves of Dreams"

*Actually, we are inadvertently moving a couple hundred yards into unincorporated Arapahoe County; there's a bit part of Arapahoe that juts east all the way to South Quebec Street. I'd just assumed that the border was Yosemite all the way down.

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Lists

[koganbot]

Haven't checked any of these yet (and I won't believe it till I hear it that any of them are exciting), but here's Allmusic's 2015 jazz list:

http://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2015/favorite-jazz-albums

And here's the Guardian's:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/best-jazz-albums-of-2015

(Did listen to a promo vid for the Maria Schneider and it seemed potentially not unpleasant, but not galvanizing.)