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Any medium (analog and/or digital), any cover album or video, all Jazz related ... and discussions...
...All that jazz love affair.

I'm big on John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Chet Baker...and many many more...Billie Holiday, Nina Simone...
Modern instrumental music. Is it jazz? A jazz musician told me that the difference between jazz and rock is the drumming feel, not whether it is instrumental or vocal. You'll notice that many of the recordings mentioned have a rock feel, but sophisticated playing and chord changes associated with jazz. "Jazz" players inevitably bring what they listened to throughout their lives, particularly the pop music of their youth, into the music -

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis- swing
Oz Noy - blues rock
Snarky Puppy - everything
 
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Modern instrumental music. Is it jazz? A jazz musician told me that the difference between jazz and rock is the drumming feel, not whether it is instrumental or vocal. You'll notice that many of the recordings mentioned have a rock feel, but sophisticated playing and chord changes associated with jazz.
Jazz music is associated with having some syncopation which I don't think is similarly prevalent in rock music. Website "jazzinamerica", quoted below, gives an example of the way to detect a type of syncopation when listening to musical phrases. My impression is most rock music's accents in contrast fall on the "down beat" which is somewhat dramatically seen in "head banger" rock. [Beatles drummer Ringo Starr once stated he played drums syncopated. Maybe (?) that partially explains the way much of the groups' music enthralled so many young listeners.]

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Any Larry Coryell fans? I just uploaded a rare pro-shot show from a Jazz Fest in the Czech city I lived in 1998-2003. I just bought a PAL VCR and should be uploading some interesting Jazz videos I collected while living there.

 
I've learned a bit more about upscaling and deinterlacing. These look better;

Jazz Yatra Sextett, 13 MJF Prague 1980;

 
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