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Originally Posted by gmku
I honestly haven't heard a whole lot of jazz post-1965 that I like in the least, aside from some Sun Ra stuff.
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Most of the great jazz went by the wayside when Miles Davis, along with Herbie Hancock and the dreaded Chick Corea released In A Silent Way in '69. Then came Bitches Brew in '70 although it was also recorded in '69. Herbie Hancock, frustrated that his brilliant sixties material (Empyrean Isles, Maiden Voyage, Speak Like A Child) got him virtually nowhere financially, lamentably started playing fusion with The Headhunters in the early seventies. Coltrane, after his band had grown weary and wary and left him, did his late period cat-strangling with some notable moments.
As far as good jazz post '65 there are some titles. Miles' own On The Corner has held up well as a progressive standard bearer of sorts. Then you have some talented piano player ensembles like those put together by Keith Jarrett and later, Brad Mehldau. Bill Evans was still putting out decent material in the seventies, as was Warne Marsh and Horace Silver, but their best material was definitely earlier. To a lesser extent there's Joe Henderson and Ramsey Lewis. And of course, there's the smattering of truly worthwhile free jazz recordings which are often discussed at this board.
Last year saw the release of Cornell 1964 by the Mingus Sextet and a bunch of other high quality recordings of that European tour featuring the soon-to-be-late Dolphy circulated just last year. I've seen a few of the bootlegs in a local record store for around thirty dollars each. Blue Note has been reissuing many a great album lately. McCoy Tyner (who played piano during Coltrane's best era (and arranged most of the music as well)) came out with Quartet, Ron Carter (bassist for Miles and later, Herbie) released Dear Miles last year, Hancock put out an album of Joni Mitchell covers and Brad Mehldau had a couple of decent ones. In the free area, the monumental The First Original Silence was released, and Nels Cline Singers had Draw Breath; Ornette Coleman had Sound Grammar in '06.
But yeah, overall there's not a whole lot of great new material, or at least much that truly stacks up.