Tastes change with age?

bdp24, I picked up the "presents" album. I'll keep an eye out for the other one. Thanks

I've come to a serious "beatnik" period for the last 10 years or so where I can't get enough jazz…love piano trios both old and new (newer brilliant youngsters who can REALLY play give me hope for civilization in general)…and rarely listen to any modern pop or Hippity Hop…ever….and I was a 60's Rock and Roll musician right through now (still play too loud, although my acoustic chops are OK). I have all the signs of Older Dude taste, and own original Steely Dan vinyl that I actually do still listen to…Little Feat…are there current bands as good as those guys? If so, I don't hear 'em, and find that many successful "newer" bands like The National or the Black Keys are unlistenable (to put it mildly) although mostly well regarded by others. Oh well…there's a LOT of jazz (and classical) to get through in my remaining years so I'm not worried about any of it, and try to keep my Hippity Hop opinions to myself when around our mid 20 something kids.

For Beatnik, early Tom Waits is just the ticket. A little too self-consciously trying to be cool for me, but that is just me.

+1 Tom Waits. I would add John Martyn too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qAkZT_4vL_Y

@wolf_garcia - they aren’t traditional straight ahead jazz piano records, but try Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi period records. Speaker’s Corner just remastered Crossings- its funk, jazz, and almost every idiom turned on it’s head.
I don’t think you’ll find anybody doing what Little Feat did in their prime with Lowell. I have, however taken a liking to guitarists like Rory Gallagher and Paul Kossoff, Ollie Halsall (Patto) and I still dig Skynyrd, pre-crash.
Steely Dan’s first album was one of the great debut albums by a band that turned out pop hits but had the sensibility of avant garde jazz players. Elliott Randall’s leads were smokin’ on that first record.
@shadorne - Solid Air is a gorgeous album.
Highly recommended- Roy Harper’s Stormcock, especially the first side. It is balladeer stuff, but dark, Jimmy Page plays 12 string on the second track- The Same Old Rock and Roll.