I'm on the hunt for new music after slowly discovering this new jazz scene going on around London (mainly from the F-IRE collective of musicians http://www.f-ire.com/main.php). I'm really appreciating gangstfams suggestion of Garage a Trois...and via those guys I'm actually discovering Charlie Hunter for the first time It's great to see that instrumental jazz (save for the british acid-jazz groups like james taylor quartet, corduroy etc.) has gotten out of the shamefully cheesy slump that was started by the albeit cracking Breezin', and as far as I'm aware, this creative renaissance may have been going on for years...it was only after discovering Acoustic Ladyland that I started buying jazz-records-from-new-artists. And I'm not talking about Norah-fucking-Jones et al.







http://www.acousticladyland.com/

These guys are pitched as a 'mix of jazz and punk', and they kind of are when you listen to them (clips on site). In fact I'm unashamedly head-banging to some of their shit, so much so that I just have to see them live the first chance I get. Apparently they've played all the usual London places already (jazz cafe, ronnie scotts). For the guy (sinisterp?) who dug the Garage a Trois sax, Acoustic Ladyland is led by a saxist, and he rocks the punk out of this jazz, as it were.

This is their second album, their first ('Camouflage') I haven't got, but I wants it. I needs it! Apparently it's a bunch of re-workings (as opposed to instrumental 'covers') of Jimi Hendrix tracks...hence their name.

Let me know what you think! And if you think they're shit, then let me know what decent new-wave of jazzists are out their that I should be listening to...hey just do that anyway even if you like these guys. I need new good music!

Oooh. Not quite digging the punk-factor of this. It looks like a gimmick-band to me (titles like 'Ludwig van Ramone'
and 'Iggy' - and the band's name is plain wrong.)

From what I heard, I like the Ludwig-cut best.

I think this is perfect music to get very drunk to in a bar, though. I would certainly check them to see how they
tear it up live.

i heard earlier this year that free-jazz was going to be the next big thing with the hip kids...is this the result?

I haven't heard these guys but if you're looking for something interesting, pianist Brad Mehldau did a version of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android."