The only relevant jazz artist in 2019. Is he enough to bring the dead genre back to life?

The only relevant jazz artist in 2019. Is he enough to bring the dead genre back to life?

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No jazz needs actual innovation that he refuses to do so

Too bad relevant =/= good. Remember that Kenny G was the most relevant jazz artist in the 80s since Miles Davis.

His “relevance” is now a shadow of what it was back in 2016/2017, proving that his music was just a quickly passing fad and that jazz is better as a niche art music. Sure you can make a jazz artist somewhat popular if he has the right image and marketing and if you dumb down the music enough. But why bother?

>The only relevant jazz artist in 2019
t. rockist

this. he’s the contemporary Kenny G

I haven't heard his stuff.He looks like he would play spiritual or free jazz. Am I close?

His music is incredibly pedestrian despite his attempt at the Coltrane/Ayler spiritual aesthetic

That’s not a good thing

>The only relevant jazz artist in 2019
*the only jazz artist relevant to modern hip-hop and R&B

>Ayler
He's miles away from Ayler musically. He's more like a milquetoast Pharoah Sanders.

This nigga is cringier than all the criss cross niggas combined.

Which is pretty bad considering Sanders was just a milquetoast Coltrane.

I didn’t say he was musically like Ayler though

I really liked both of Kamasi’s albums. Why does Yea Forums hate him so much?

Its the most derivative stuff you could imagine

You lugs need to listen to more music, there’s been a lot of good jazz records lately

If you’re going to call yourself a great jazz artist you’d better either be either a pretty good soloist or a pretty good composer. Really after 1960 you’d better be both. Kamasi Washington doesn’t even come close to being either.

Did Ayler have ostentatious presentation though? Any time I've seen him he was wearing suits and he struck me as someone who took experimentation and the avant-garde of jazz very seriously without any aspiration to sacrifice the substance of what he was doing for popularity.
I don't really see the comparison. I'm not an expert on Ayler's life and career though so maybe there's something I'm missing?

Shut up nerd have sex

Sanders gets a bad rap cause he palled around with one of the greatest musicians of all time. I think he had his own thing going for sure. I don't always like what he did but it was distinct enough that I wouldn't go so far as to call him a rip off artist in the same way Kamasi is.

Had deep passionate nerd sex with my bf like 2 days ago. Scrub.

listen to this instead

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He did wear some gaudy suits, like the bright reflective silver one. Perhaps aesthetic was the wrong word, but like Coltrane and Ayler, whose music had this spiritual and political Afro American focus to it, Kansas tries to do the same

Tgis is actually some reddit tier shit. Kamasi is the most uninnovative nigger to feign jazz. He just recycles choral pieces.

The only people who think that it's a virtue for artists to be "relevant" are bandwagoners and trendwhores.

he's combining the civil rights movement with jazz, and personally i like that

>white dude on cover
yeah no thanks

>he sucks but he checks the right boxes
Whatever floats ya

>he's combining the civil rights movement with jazz
do you think thats new? im not aware of what exactly kamasi is doing. but jazz has always been extremely political. and about rights for black americans and african heritage and blck power... you must just be really ignorant of past music

Thundercat is the most relevant jazz artist in 2019 bud.