Anyone recommend some modern Jazz?

[Fab Foodie]

Can't believe how many people are saying they like the Joe Jackson album, I thought it was an obscure album!!!!!!

I Lie most of his stuff!

Also listen to Billie Holiday .... Lady sings the Blues, not Jazz per se, but related and magic.

On another tack - rock/Jazz try King Crimson - In the court of the Crimson King. Opening Track '21st Century Schizoid man' is a belter!

 

[swee'pea99]

They call it bluegrass, but the boundaries get very blurred.....if you like that Joe Jackson Album, you might well enjoy the very contemporary Imelda May

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwmhMzuBA2Y

 

[Fnaar]

I will give you the name Slim Gaillard... check out his story, his music. And keep going, I find it inspiring. And I once bought him a drink.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Not much "modern" mentioned - probably cos it's shít.

I played jazz trumpet for a few years in the late 80s - I ended up chucking it in a big river. How jazz was that?

 

[Cuchilo]

They call it bluegrass, but the boundaries get very blurred.....if you like that Joe Jackson Album, you might well enjoy the very contemporary Imelda May

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwmhMzuBA2Y

Nice bass solo ! Now going to look for Mr Willie Dixon to blow it away .....

 

[simon the viking]

They call it bluegrass, but the boundaries get very blurred.....if you like that Joe Jackson Album, you might well enjoy the very contemporary Imelda May

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwmhMzuBA2Y

She is one current artist that does stand out from the rest,

 

[simon the viking]

Its hillbilly , rockabilly , rock and roll , swing jive . Searching jazz will send you on the wrong path mate .
Just to show they used to sing about any old crap then as they do now . This one always got me up on the dance floor to jive with the nearest lady

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07yrOOzH8gQ

I thought I was perhaps categorising it wrong... I knew the Joe Jackson album wasn't true Jazz but not swing either..... Thanks for pointing me in the right direction... one things for sure it will p***s the Mrs off when I put it on the stereo in the car.... ( for about 15 seconds, then she will demand the phone be handed over and some s***te will get put on...)

 

[Cuchilo]

I thought I was perhaps categorising it wrong... I knew the Joe Jackson album wasn't true Jazz but not swing either..... Thanks for pointing me in the right direction... one things for sure it will p***s the Mrs off when I put it on the stereo in the car.... ( for about 15 seconds, then she will demand the phone be handed over and some s***te will get put on...)

Take her to some Le rock , le jive classes ( for want of a better word ) They play old and new stuff and will get you both jiving and dancing with each other . Not this standing near each other and doing your own thing dancing but real dancing . I used to hate playing those gigs but now I am older it seems a great thing to get real dancing back and you just dance with anyone to get better at it .

 

[Hacienda71]

Bit more contemporary, check out the likes of, Galliano, Snowboy, Cleveland Watkins and Courtney Pine.

 

[slowmotion]

Chet Baker's trumpet on "Shipbuilding", the Elvis Costello version, is about as good as it gets for me.
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Ask the cocktail waitress for a very dry Martini afterwards.....and weep into it...
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Oh just check out that tone arm, Daddyo!

 

[jazzkat]

I'm assuming you don't mean 'modern jazz', akin to the sound of a "burning pet shop" and you mean 'modern, jazzy music'.
Try John Schofield, especially Agogo - one of my all time faves, funky/bluesy - just great.
Also some of Larry Carltons stuff - Livewire, Sapphire blue. The stuff he did with Fourplay is a bit 'lift muzak'. He did a great CD with Steve Lukather called No substitutions that was great if you like things a bit more rocky.
There's also Robben Ford if you prefer the bluesy end of things.
There's probably more I could mention, but it's a bit too early in the morning for the brain cells.
Definitely check out Agogo!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WPGdjZr8PI&list=ALBTKoXRg38BBZGOFIKTsxaNuIs8dUNq-Q

 

[John the Monkey]

I'd second Fab Foodie's recommendations as an excellent place to start.

Also, I'm pretty sure there are some decent Louis Jordan & Louis Prima compilations about (I have some, but on cd in a box somewhere )

 

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[dellzeqq]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bIk1Wl21Yk

(sips mint tea, relaxes in silk jammies)

 

[User269]

Old stuff with a new twist? Plenty of old stuff with an old twist, but new...............

Sounds like you might enjoy 'world music' if you want something a bit different and with a jazzy feel..........Mayra Andrade for example?