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Is Modern Jazz an Oxymoron?

I am a huge jazz fan and 90% of my listening time is listening to instrumental jazz artists from the classic jazz era of 1950's to 1970's. Excluding jazz singers and a few more recent jazz artist who play classic jazz style I can't stand modern jazz.

My question to jazz fans is if it is my limitation or is this a common thing amongst classic jazz fans? Or did you finally come around and learned to appreciate modern jazz? If so which artists?
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chayro
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It's like any other age and genre.  There's some great music out there and a lot of crap.  Check out this clip of Jeff "Tain" Watts' group playing very modern composition in 2011.  It's a very difficult piece of music with changing tempos in every section, but these guys make it sound very listenable, even to someone who thinks the 50's-60's were jazz's high point.  You need to look.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPpciCh4i0Q
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