Hope that you found some new inspiration here, and if you feel like you have some music you want to share, please do. I will try to update to OP as often as I can.
Lee Ritenour on occasion plays with Fourplay and it is absolutely great! They do a lot of great covers like Sexual Healing, etc. and get guests like Phil Collins to do a song or two. Matt Dusk
Unknown Canadian Jazz Singer, his earlier songs are a lot more Jazzy and remakes in a Jazz fashion (U2s two shots of happy, one shot of sad and The Beatles: Please, Please me, his later stuff is hit and miss.
Norah Jones
Good cover, however her own songs are just unbelievably well done like Turn me on, Tennessee Waltz (remake) and Thinkin' about you.
Some jazz fusion from Korea, using some traditional instruments. The bass player is one of my favorite ever. He has his own channel on youtube where he does sick awesome covers of anime songs...while cross dressing (but he can triple pop like no other!
I am getting some serious nerd-chills from the suggestions guys, keep on posting them and I will see if you get time to put them in a youtube playlist or add them all to the OP
Torte de Lini: I have no idea how i managed to miss posting Miles Davids
Awesome thread initiative! There's so much great jazz out there that I don't know about, will make sure to check out all the posts in this thread!
And to contribute, I give to you a personal favourite, Chet Baker. The smoothest trumpet play I've ever had the pleasure of hearing, and he has quite a nice voice as well. He did, sadly, fall victim to drug abuse, which really messed both him and his life up to a great degree. For me though, that backstory only amplifies the feel when I compare his early recordings such as My Funny Valentine to his singing in Almost Blue.
Check him out, he's worth it.
Almost Blue
Time After Time
And my personal favourite of his, My Funny Valentine
I would definitely put The Bad Plus up there as one of my current favorites, though I wouldn't necessarily call them jazz per se when sitting next to people like Charlie Parker, or The Duke, or Coltrane.
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