I´m myself a profi jazz player but I don´t really concentrate on "bands", more on musicians...
In fact, every time I say I´m a profi musician the first question from the non musicians I get is "what is the name of your band", which I find really funny...
That is because the enviroment of Jazz is mostly freelancing.
Also, I think on jazz especially there is not about NEW or OLD, is just about quality (sure, should be on every style).
For instance have you already checked out these kind of things before you spend time listening to GoGo Penguin? (See links below). Please AT LEAST check out the first song on each file.
The thing (I have the impression) you should know is that far more than 99 percent of the drummers that hang here (and in every website of the world, and probably the galaxy) are NOT Jazz Drummers!
1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_56S3T2VGOQ
1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYjINJ8QCgg
I know I´m still not answering you...that´s because I just listen what is the last thing this or this musician is doing...
In any case, always, good luck on your search!
Yes! My band Jazz Martyrs:what about you? any recommendation?
For me lately, it's been:
Wee Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI1N7JfgdcE
Norbert Scholly Group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXUzo0qPlVg
Steffen Weber Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIwW_MEfbdg
Brian Blade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5DtRDPyJw
Gryphon Labs (really more jazz/funk/fusion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB7i9rInck8
And of course, the one-and-only Hiromi Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rxYw7Y45Eo
I played with Norbet Scholly in...1986 (in Frankfurt)
With Brian Blade´s alto saxophone player on that video (on darker suit), Myron Walden, in 1991 (in New York).
Best regards!
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Are there any recordings of you with Norbert or Myron?
I have heard of Brian Blade before but this video/performance is new to me. Very very very cool. Lovely music.
No, but Myron went at Manhattan School of Music with me and we played extensively there and in New York. I used to have a tape from our playing together, but don´t have it any longer...
Norbert Scholly won the International Jazz Competition as a soloist circa 1985-6 (and I was one of the six finalists a couple of years after with another group), we used to get together with Michael Harmsen (Bass, used to play with B. Cobham) and can´t remember the name of the piano player but was awesome, from Stuttgart I think.
Michael and me were from Frankfurt, Norbert is from Cologne.
You can watch several videos at my site, here some similar to the moments comented:
This is the group I mentioned from 1987 (finalist of the International jazz Competition): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqtqGzp6TpE
Here is more or less how I played during Myron Walden´s time (1994):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGngCan1eg0
Nice playing...
I don't know if really 99% of the drummers here are not jazz-drummers...
Really? That's weird... I wonder why...to Drumming sort of person:
none of your links are viewable in Europe (at least in Spain) alternative ones?
Really? That's weird... I wonder why...
If you have Spotify you can listen for free here: https://play.spotify.com/artist/12jjhTjwQE5j9DhzOjViil
You can also hear short samples of the new record on the Spanish Amazon site: https://www.amazon.es/Along-Similar-Lines-Jazz-Martyrs/dp/B06Y2BGFS4/