I know nothing about jazz but to me, the stuff people post here are exactly what I expect of the genre. How come whenever I go to a jazz festival, most of what I hear resembles nothing of what I know jazz to be? I always end up hearing reggae, Hindi, celtic, African, etc.
I'm not a huge contemporary jazz dude, but LA musician Kamasi Washington just released a 3 disc album The Epic. Man is it really, really good - well worth checking out
I know nothing about jazz but to me, the stuff people post here are exactly what I expect of the genre. How come whenever I go to a jazz festival, most of what I hear resembles nothing of what I know jazz to be? I always end up hearing reggae, Hindi, celtic, African, etc.
Much like the term "Electronica" which is an umbrella of many sub-genres, so is "Jazz". Just change out "trance," "house," "drum n bass," etc for "swing," "cool," "bop/hard bop," "avant-garde," etc. There are as many sub-genres of "jazz" as there are "electronica."