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Originally Posted by Paradise Lost
One last thing, be careful of most jazz albums released after about 1975, as for older artists they just start to re-hash older stuff without much of their old flair, or it tends to be overly electronic or slick, it loses much of what I feel made jazz great. Still, there are plenty of good albums, especially by resident artists of ECM.
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Great. This is just the sort of attitude I was hoping to quash in my contributions to this thread. Talking about jazz in the past tense might work if there is a very specific sound you expect, but imagine saying rock ended with the Beatles...
I can't stress enough that there is an abundance of jazz that is still being created
now! It never went away. Paradise Lost has made sweeping generalizations about the genre. Older artists re-hashing old material? What do you say about Joe Henderson, Kenny Wheeler, Herbie Hancock or Wayne Shorter, just to name four off the top of my head?