Oh my god jazz is my absolute favorite you have no idea. Sun Ra, whatever. I mean even among hipsters most of the college jazz people only listen to like Bitches Brew and fucking Charles Mingus Black Saint. As far as Ive met.
Here's one I like. It's kind of nu-jazz sort of shit, my mom is a smooth jazz fan so I picked it up there, we bond over music, but she doesn't like most of the jazz I play. She's actually more into downtemo sort of R&B chillout stuff, the type they play at like nail salons.
The first one is very smooth jazz, but has some good rhythms. Mom told me it was still too jazzy for her but it's chill enough to border on lounge music. The other two, I just randomly remembered because I liked the band.
I have so many jazz favorites I cant even remember all of them. Oh gosh Im sperging so much, I love jazz. If I were in this thread in person I would be like fumbling my records and spilling them all over the floor.
Expect this thread to be tagged infected because Im retarded and am about to sperg the fuck out.
EDIT: My taste leans more towards more jazz-funk, though. I live in the south, not near the border but in a very "mexican" state; so a lot of my favorites that I've heard from local radio can be classified more as "beat boy" sort of jazz. For a while I liked Parov Stella. Swing Jazz is great, and so is big band.
I dunno, when you get into jazz, the hipsterness of it really breaks it up, there are a lot of different "styles" of jazz. People who are into metal tend to claim it has very faint roots in jazz because it's a lot of sound at once, and some other things. Music is weird.
As far as jazz-funk goes, this is one of my favorites:
It's a local band but it's pretty good. It's all jazz funk, sort of spanish sounding though. But damn it's got a beat. Heavy on the funk but those horns hit and it falls into a groove. The rest of the album is more focused on the horns rather than the bass groove but it's still pretty good. I love the next track after that one too, but it is a spanish album. Both tracks really pick up at about 1:00 if you're watching these videos.
I used to know some purely jazz, like "pure jazz" acts from local radio but they've been lost in my labyrinthian, void-like brain. One was a super famous pianist, who won jazz awards a few years back. I liked that dude.
