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yeah that's one thing about a lot of jazz listeners are that they often times pick an era of the music and stick to it and don't want much to do with anything outside of their own area of interest. Not to say taht's the case here. But yes, refering to Jazz as an artform that reached it's peek in the 60's is ignorant.
Even naming off those 4 names of guys who came to the scene in the 60's still playing (besides Joe Hen who died 10 years ago) there are artists out now who dominate their instruments and take the music to new places on a level as high as if not higher then those of the masters of the past. Because Jazz no longer is main stream these people are not high profile and often times Jazz listeners do not care for the more complex music they play now. The music is being pushed hard in new directions with new influences.
Modern Jazz artists like Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Adam Rogers, Terance Blanchard, Brad Meldhau, Areon Goldberg, Seamus Blake, Jeff Ballard, Larry Grenadier, Richard Bona, RObin Eubanks, Dave Holland, Bill Stewart the list goes on and on and on. Those are just HIGH profile modern Jazz players, not including the people who are coming now in the last 5 years who are completely out to lunch good.
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