Thought I'd start a thread on the genre, particularly with so much output from the young London/UK jazz scene in the last couple of years or so.
With the rise of Ezra Collective, Nubya Garcia, Alfa Mist, Sons of Kemet, Moses Boyd et al, it's a really exciting time to be getting out there and exploring the music being produced that doesn't just hark back to older jazz, but incorporates elements of neo-soul, rap/hip-hop, funk, classical, and nearly everything else.
It's all sort of fitting with one of my favourite descriptors of jazz - it's not a genre of music, so much as it is an approach to creating it. All these disparate elements being brought together in 2018 to create some really good music - it's great. I'll leave you with Alfa Mist's Antiphon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVO_R8uvMhE 
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To me it's like scraping your finger nails down a blackboard.
One for Bob and Paddy to discuss
I must admit some jazz could only be appreciated by people who play themselves and are on the same wavelength.
My current favourite listen is Tosin Abasi and Animals for leaders.
I don’t mind a bit of Jazz guitar stuff but a lot of it leaves me cold.
A mate described it as 5 musicians playing 5 different tunes at the same time.
I'm in the mood for something more traditional today though so here's one of the all-time great pianists, Oscar Peterson, with a scorching version of the C Jam Blues:
Thanks for posting.
*EDIT - this was actually released on the album Waltz For Debby (same year), but from the Village Vanguard recordings. The works were later all released in one go by Riverside in the 2000s at some point.
A few weeks ago I went to see a Dudley Moore tribute band at Ronnie's and they were saying how much Dudley Moors piano jazz work was based on Oscar Peterson and how he spent months trying to get it right.
I can hear a lot of Erroll Garner in his playing, too, and some Bud Powell and Fatha Hines - but then, the last two influenced probably every jazz pianist that's existed since!
Spent a hugely enjoyable ten days in New York in August and the hotel we stayed in was straight across from Birdland - so had a very enjoyable evening watching the resident big band - moving in the direction of bebop with most of the solos so I was very happy ( last gig I went to before that was Mastadon at the Brixton Academy, somquite a change of pace )
Trouble is that I like some of the very early stuff, hard bop, big band and a little of the later Miles Davis ( Bitches Brew for example ) but I have no idea where to go next, or of contemporary stuff worth a listen - cool does nothing for me and jazz funk I loathe!
Any suggestions?
Have you listened to much fusion either?
Gonna take a gamble here, but based on your rock tastes, you might find Snarky Puppy interesting. I really like them, and they're VERY diverse, so it's likely not all of their stuff will be to your tastes, especially on the Family Dinner collaborations where they feature a different singer every song.
However, What About Me? is a a banger: