Jazz for aficionados

Jafant, I have many of his albums in my collection, and I've enjoyed his music for many years.

He will be missed.

Frogman, music will continue, but not "Jazz". At some point we have to define jazz, and not consider any music played to be "Jazz".

Let us start from the most fundamental point, and that is with the artists who create jazz; in their hearts they are "humanitarians" they care for other people. That means that "love" is more than just a word, it's a profound emotion we feel for others, and it's expressed in the music we call jazz.


I don't know when one generation ends, and another begins, but I know from my point of view, I'm living in a strange generation, and this goes for much younger people that I know and love. While their love for me is true, it's because we're related, their love does not extend to the broader community; they don't have "empathy", and what I say is verified by many of the posts right here on "Audiogon".

Jazz is passing away with the artists who created it, and when those who appreciate that art are dead, jazz will be dead.

Hi jazzbos, I've remained on the sidelines during discussions of "underrated" musicians for a couple of reasons.  I'm unclear what constitutes being underrated.  Is it based on record sales, jazz polls won, number of times they made the cover of Time magazine, or anyone's individual perspective?  And is it their musicianship, how many groups they've lead, how many compositions they've written which were then covered by others, or how much their technic influenced other players?  Curious minds want to know. ;^)

However I now come out onto the playing field, mainly because of a concert experience last evening here in San Diego.  The Mingus Dynasty performed a tribute to the "Tijuana Moods" album.  BTW, they also performed the night before in Tijuana and I heard it was an over-flow crowd success.

Anyway, frog may know some or all of the musicians since they are based in NYC.  And they all have recording experience other than with Mingus Dynasty, so others of you may know some of them too.  But they were all unknown to me.  The band:
  Wayne Escoffery - tenor sax
  Brandon Wright - alto sax
  Alex Sipiagin - trumpet
  Frank Ku-umba Lacy - trombone
  Theo Hill - piano
  Boris Kozlov - bass
  Adam Cruz - drums

I found the individual musicians to be either very good or outstanding.  Yet, as stated, I'm not familiar with any of them.  So does that suggest any or all are underrated?  I'm not sure.