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modern jazz

Last updated: Wed Oct 22 2025 05:12:17 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Modern jazz encompasses progressive approaches to jazz from the 1960s onward, blending traditional improvisational elements with contemporary influences from funk, Latin, hip-hop, and electronic music. The sound ranges from groove-oriented vibraphone and marimba explorations to experimental piano trios and boundary-pushing brass compositions. It represents jazz as a living art form that continuously evolves while maintaining its core emphasis on spontaneity and musical conversation.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
8		1955	Cal Tjader	Mambo With Tjader	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 44
57		1955	Milt Jackson	Milt Jackson	jazz
86		1961	Ron Carter	Where?	modern jazz
54		1962	Cal Tjader	Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 71
75		1965	Cal Tjader	Soul Sauce	jazz latin jazz	latin jazz # 50
79		1965	Joe Henderson	Inner Urge	jazz	hard bop # 12
95		1965	Cal Tjader	Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 98
92		1966	Cal Tjader	Soul Burst	jazz latin latin jazz mambo modern jazz vibraphone	mambo # 9 latin jazz # 51 vibraphone # 95
24		1966	Lalo Schifrin	Mission: Impossible...and More !	jazz modern jazz
65		1967	Lalo Schifrin	Cool Hand Luke	jazz modern jazz
74		1967	Lalo Schifrin	Rush Hour 2 Score	modern jazz
29		1969	Lalo Schifrin	1984	electroacoustic electronic jazz modern jazz
34		1970	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Does Your House Have Lions: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology	hard bop modern jazz
14		1972	Keith Jarrett	Facing You	jazz
59		1973	Milt Jackson	Sunflower	jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 92
31		1974	Chet Baker	Bespoke Songs, Lost Dogs, Deto		improvisation # 48 jazz trumpet # 59
22		1975	Thelonious Monk	Original Album Classics	jazz jazz piano modern jazz
88		1976	Cal Tjader	Amazonas	jazz latin jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 88 latin jazz # 89
37		1977-03-08	Lalo Schifrin	Towering Toccata	jazz modern jazz
85		1979	Ron Carter	Where	modern jazz
18		1981	Cal Tjader	Shining Sea	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 50
17		1981	Modern Jazz Quartet	The Complete Last Concert	jazz modern jazz
98		1982	Roy Ayers	Everybody Loves The Sunshine	modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 99
1		1984	Gary Burton	Works	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 39
7		1988	Milt Jackson	Bebop	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 43
60		1988	Roy Ayers	Lifeline	jazz modern jazz
45		1989	Lionel Hampton	Mostly Blues	big band jazz modern jazz swing vibraphone	vibraphone # 62
69		1990	Sidsel Endresen	So I Write	female vocalists jazz modern jazz norwegian world fusion
25		1991	Peter Erskine	Sweet Soul	contemporary jazz jazz modern jazz
19		1991-09	Charlie Parker	Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Collection	modern jazz
99		1992-12-02	Bobby Hutcherson	San Francisco	jazz modern jazz	vibraphone # 84
36		1994	Henry Threadgill	Song out of My Trees	avant-garde jazz flute jazz modern jazz
10		1995	Don Byron	Music for Six Musicians	clarinet composer jazz klezmer modern jazz	clarinet # 64
20		1995	Milt Jackson	Burnin' In The Woodhouse	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 51
38		1995	Cal Tjader	Descarga	jazz latin jazz mambo modern jazz vibraphone	mambo # 60 vibraphone # 60
39		1995	Henry Threadgill	Makin' a Move	avant-garde jazz flute harmolodic jazz modern jazz	harmolodic # 65
96		1995-06-20	Charlie Hunter Trio	Bing, bing, bing!		san francisco # 92
42		1995-09-26	Brad Mehldau	Introducing Brad Mehldau	jazz piano	jazz piano # 83
15		1996	Tom Harrell	Labyrinth	modern jazz
61		1996	Allen Vizzutti	Skyrocket	modern jazz
9		1996-02-26	Lionel Hampton	Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz With Guest Lionel Hampton	big band jazz modern jazz swing vibraphone	vibraphone # 46
81		1996-05-21	Cal Tjader	Talkin' Verve: Roots Of Acid Jazz	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 80
21		1996-11-19	Allen Vizzutti	The Carnival of Venus	modern jazz
49		1997	Gary Burton & Friends	Departure	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 66
77		1997	John Coltrane	The John Coltrane Quartet Plays	jazz
68		1997-02-04	Roy Ayers	The Best Of Roy Ayers	jazz
55		1998	Cal Tjader	Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 72
41		1998	Brian Blade Fellowship	Brian Blade Fellowship	contemporary jazz jazz modern jazz
87		1999-06-08	Vertú	Vertú	bass fusion jazz piano jazz rock modern jazz piano progressive rock
12		1999-10-04	Dave Holland Quintet	Prime Directive	jazz
35		1999-10-26	Lalo Schifrin	Mannix	jazz modern jazz soundtrack
23		2000	Brad Mehldau	Places	jazz piano	jazz piano # 60 piano trio # 79
78		2000-04-11	Brian Blade Fellowship	Perceptual	contemporary jazz jazz modern jazz
64		2002	Dave Douglas	The Infinite	jazz modern jazz
47		2002-01-01	Collectif Terra Incognita	Mimétique	jazz modern jazz
90		2003	Dave Douglas	Freak In	modern jazz
4		2003-02-03	De-Phazz	Plastic Love Memory	downtempo
27		2003-12-08	Roy Ayers	Baby Doll	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 57
2		2004	gary bamford	jadj	funk funk rock instrumental jazz jazz-funk modern jazz soundtrack
67		2004	Ari Hoenig	The Painter	modern jazz
53		2004-01-27	Roy Ayers	Virgin Ubiquity Vol.2: Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 70
82		2004-08-30	Roy Ayers	Mahogany Vibe	jazz modern jazz
48		2005	Roy Ayers	Virgin Ubiquity II: Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 65
52		2005	Modern Jazz Quartet	The Comedy	jazz modern jazz
3		2005-04-09	Jakob Bro	Sidetracked	electronica jazz jazz guitar modern jazz
58		2005-04-12	Paris Match	5th anniversary	japan japanese jazz modern jazz
5		2006	Driftkikker	Coming of the light	ambient contemporary jazz funk jazz modern jazz pop trip-hop
80		2006	Erik Truffaz	Face a Face	fusion modern jazz
71		2006-02-03	Paul Motian Band	Garden Of Eden	drum jazz modern jazz	drum # 87
44		2006-03-28	Christian Scott	Rewind That	jazz
32		2006-05-09	Aaron Goldberg	Worlds	jazz
16		2006-05-19	Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra	New Magical Kingdom	jazz modern jazz
33		2007-01-07	Christian Scott	Anthem	jazz	fusion jazz # 28
6		2007-01-15	Somewhere off Jazz Street	Stories from Midnight Streets	jazz dark jazz	dark jazz # 49
51		2007-10-01	Phronesis	Organic Warfare	contemporary jazz jazz jazz double bass jazz piano modern jazz	jazz double bass # 23
56		2007-10-10	Portico Quartet	Knee-Deep in the North Sea	jazz
43		2008	Matthias Bergmann	Matthias Bergmann - Still Time (Jazz4ever 4789)	jazz modern jazz
28		2008-01-11	Marcin Wasilewski	January	contemporary jazz european jazz jazz modern jazz piano trio	piano trio # 80 european jazz # 96
84		2008-09-01	Somewhere off Jazz Street	Road to Somewhere	dark jazz jazz modern jazz	dark jazz # 35
30		2009	Walter Smith III	Live In Paris	jazz modern jazz
89		2009-08-28	Vijay Iyer	Historicity	modern jazz	india # 47 piano trio # 92
11		2009-09-25	John Abercrombie	Wait Till You See Her	jazz jazz fusion jazz guitar modern jazz
62		2010-05-17	Ricky-Tick Big Band	Ricky-Tick Big Band	finland modern jazz	finland # 23
13		2010-07-26	Phronesis	Alive	jazz
26		2011	Ben Allison	Action-Refraction	modern jazz
70		2011-04-18	Marcin Wasilewski	Faithful	jazz modern jazz
94		2011-04-20	Roy Ayers	Red, Black & Green		vibraphone # 97
46		2011-04-25	Marius Neset	Golden Xplosion	jazz modern jazz
63		2011-11-21	Jakob Bro	Time	jazz modern jazz
91		2012-06-26	John Surman	Saltash Bells	modern jazz
50		2014-02-15	Vijay Iyer	Mutations	contemporary classical contemporary jazz modern jazz
93		2014-11-28	Anouar Brahem	Souvenance	jazz modern jazz oud	oud # 92
40		2018	Ketil Bjørnstad	A Suite of Poems (Lars Saabye Christensen)	modern jazz
100		2018-02-09	GoGo Penguin	A Humdrum Star	contemporary jazz electronica jazz modern jazz	contemporary jazz # 88
97		2020-06-05	Ambrose Akinmusire	on the tender spot of every calloused moment	avant-garde jazz jazz modern jazz post-bop romance	romance # 79 avant-garde jazz # 84 post-bop # 93
76		2020-09-04	CAMILLE BERTAULT	Le tigre	female vocalists france french jazz modern jazz vocal jazz
73			James Uhart	Light As An Elephant	acoustic african chillout contemporary jazz fusion jazz instrumental jazz modern jazz vocal jazz	fusion jazz # 86
83			RTbridge & Michael Schleinkofer Trio	The Chromatzone	chamber jazz modern jazz	chamber jazz # 83
66			James Uhart	Time Away	acoustic chillout classical contemporary jazz instrumental jazz jazz piano modern jazz
72			Lost Tribe	Many Lifetimes	jazz fusion jazz guitar modern jazz

Related genres

• jazz
• vibraphone
• contemporary jazz
• instrumental
• fusion
• swing
• nu jazz
• big band
• lounge
• european jazz