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Who are the best jazz musicians right now?
Not Kamasi Washington.
Who is then?
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Tigran Hamasyan
Ari Hoenig
Avishai Cohen
all up there
jazz more like jazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz cuz it makes me sleep amirite
Pat Methney
got em
well, there is kamasi washington, and bad bad not good.
Well the list goes on
I've liked Vijay Iyer's work the last couple of years
kamasi washington is well known but in jazz circles he wouldn't be regarded as one of the best
some names you would hear a lot in jazz enthusiast circles are chris potter, dave holland, wadada leo smith, vijay iyer, rudresh mahanthappa
there are also many other great names who still make good albums but currently aren't in fashion/not in peak mode. they are still amazing, but new albums by them are probably not their best work. ex: wayne shorter and sonny rollins are alive, who are absolute legends. similarly, keith jarrett is alive, etc.
Vijay Iyer
Kendrick Lamar.
Clive and he's definitely African
kind of
I don't know, but I just discovered Håvard Wiik and he's much better than this hacky fuck.
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Matthew Shipp
Henry Threadgill
Chris Potter
Yosvany Terry
Craig Taborn
John Escreet
Ambrose Akinmusire
Steve Lehman
Alex Sipiagin
Mary Halvorson
Antonio Sanchez
David Binney
here ya go granddads
I really like Matt Wilson, though his last album is ass
Kirk Knuffke is pretty cool too
Christian Scott
Me, the black anonymous blind tenor sax player from the year 1957, I travel through time and space and learn music from the distant galaxies by ear
wow, that was crap.
Good list, except there's no Peter Evans.
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Textbook JTGcore
kys yourself
great list, esp Halvorson
me desu
true dat
Brian Blade is really good
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Kamasi Washington. The soloing is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of horn instruments most of the trills will go over a typical listener's head. There’s also Kamasi's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these songs, to realise that they’re not just jazzy- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Epic truly ARE idiots