Browse: Contemporary Jazz
This page lists all jazz recordings in genre: Contemporary Jazz.
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My Song
Keith Jarrett (piano), Jan Garbarek (saxophones), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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Afric Pepperbird
Jan Garbarek (saxophones/clarinet/flutes/percussion), Terje Rypdal (guitar/bugle), Arild Andersen (bass/african thumb piano, xylophone), Jon Christensen (percussion)
From the opening track ‘Scarabee’, the jazz world outside Scandinavia was introduced to a Nordic sensibility in jazz, the Nordic Tone. — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Voyage
RecommendedDaniel Herskedal (tuba), Helge Andreas Norbakken, Eyolf Dale, Bergmund Waal Skaslien
Global concerns cross with a global musical reach on Herskedal’s delicately exquisite and, perhaps, most improvfriendly recording to date. — More…
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Presto Jazz Recording of the Week, 29th March 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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From the opening ‘Part I’, a 16-minute storm of thundering polyrhythms and powerful cadences, the muse certainly seemed to have descended on Jarrett that evening. Each piece seems to flash by... — More…
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, February 2020
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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J Mood
RecommendedWynton Marsalis (trumpet), Robert Leslie Hurst III (bass), Jeff "Tain" Watts (drums), Marcus Roberts (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 30th Awards (1987), Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Post-1980)
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An adept at solo recitals (his Facing You for ECM in 1970 was a strong harbinger), he began a series of in-concert recitals for Manfred Eicher’s label that attracted acclaim and increasing public... — More…
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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Presto Music, Classic Jazz Recording
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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A World For Her
David Hazeltine, Javon Jackson, Steve Nelson, Peter Washington, Louis Hayes, Joe Farnsworth
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Black to the Future is a staggering achievement. Musically and culturally, Sons of Kemet not only holistically conceive of a future, they begin to create one right now. — More…
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, June 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th May 2021
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Downbeat, Editor's Pick, June 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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Stereogum, Best Jazz Albums of 2021
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Keith Jarrett - After The Fall
Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary Peacock (double bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums)
This 1998 standards concert mark[s] a conscious effort on his part to return to live performance…Even allowing for the fact that it takes a Keith Jarrett too choose the intricacies of bebop as... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Jazz Choice
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