Ambient/post/nu/new-age jazz - S/D

The ashrambient revolution is here, and there will be some patchouli spilt. Discuss the quiet revolution below...

A few relevant articles on this stuff (a canon, perhaps?)

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/ambient-jazz-pharoah-sanders-floating-points-nala-sinephro/
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/02/28/jazz-ragas-for-restless-times/

And an interesting compilation of percursors from Aquarium Drunkard: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/03/25/light-pollution-the-roots-of-ambient-jazz/

Looking forward to that mix! Linking back to my Scandinavian/Eurojazz explorations here - Thread of Jakob Bro (Danish jazz guitarist, maker of floating minimal ballads)

I recently interviewed alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett — it'll be the next BA podcast — and he expressed real admiration for the Pharoah Sanders/Floating Points album, and said he'd love to do something like that himself. (Garrett and Sanders made two albums together, one studio and one live, in the early 2000s, and he's done several other records with non-Western instruments and musical concepts, in spiritual/world jazz territory.)

also some discussion in the postpandemic surge of interest in ambient & new age

the Alice Coltrane resurgence also seems related

I interviewed Shabaka Hutchings, who has given up the saxophone for flutes. It was an interesting conversation, especially when I asked him about the lack of overt rhythm in his new music, and what his shows are like now.

as far as roots go, alice (as mentioned) is important, but what about steve tibbetts? he seems like at least a progenitor of this stuff.

and vini reilly. hi vini. i love you.👋🏻

Very interesting interview!

Lol, I've become aware of the term 'doomer jazz', basically noir-ish ballads, lo fi beats to study to except jazz.

https://jazzvocate.medium.com/screw-it-lets-talk-about-doomer-jazz-f55ce384e8b3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ygVwbOyJU

ha, interesting... real music, though!