Modern jazz often suffers from the stigma of being stale and uneventful. I was under that impression for a long time as well, the genre (or scene) seems impenetrable from the outside but all it takes is a little patience and willingness to look. The genre definitely isn't in the foreground at the moment but it still produces a lot of great records and a lot of great musicians. Walter Smith III leans on a much more conventional side of jazz but like a lot of modern jazz albums the 100 years of jazz is jam packed in his music and playing. A careful observer might notice that this cover is very familiar to another classic one and you would find out why as soon as the record starts with the cover of Cyclic Episode (originally by Sam Rivers. It's old and new but through a filter of a new generation that definitely has a lot to prove (standing on the shoulders of giants and all that but they definitely has a lot to offer.
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