Thanks for doing the heavy lifting there, @charles1dad . I got bored with straight-ahead stuff that was common audiophile fodder, didn't completely understand "big band" and did not get into fusion after various hard rock.
What got me re-interested in jazz was the post-'70s era, when jazz was really off the map mainstream wise, and all these players were doing it for the music and the community (in the sense of the whole political and cultural movement at the time). What turned me on was "spiritual jazz," now a commercial term though when applied to the records from certain labels, such as Strata-East (with stratospheric prices) was a cool era.
I just started surfing artists. One I dig-- still alive as of this writing- is Cecil McBee, who appeared on myriad jazz albums, mainly in the '70s and into the '80s. Most are small combo, spare, with improvisation.
The classics are worth revisiting- current Blue Note reissues can be analog and cheap, ditto the more offbeat Tone Poet (Katanga! is worth buying now, while still in print).
Read. Listen. Do more research about what you like.
Hell, I got back on to Art Pepper on a record he did late, with Cecil M. in 1979 rendering "Patricia" in a spare, modern style. Pick a lane. It's fun stuff to listen to, and there is a wealth of information accompanying it.
What got me re-interested in jazz was the post-'70s era, when jazz was really off the map mainstream wise, and all these players were doing it for the music and the community (in the sense of the whole political and cultural movement at the time). What turned me on was "spiritual jazz," now a commercial term though when applied to the records from certain labels, such as Strata-East (with stratospheric prices) was a cool era.
I just started surfing artists. One I dig-- still alive as of this writing- is Cecil McBee, who appeared on myriad jazz albums, mainly in the '70s and into the '80s. Most are small combo, spare, with improvisation.
The classics are worth revisiting- current Blue Note reissues can be analog and cheap, ditto the more offbeat Tone Poet (Katanga! is worth buying now, while still in print).
Read. Listen. Do more research about what you like.
Hell, I got back on to Art Pepper on a record he did late, with Cecil M. in 1979 rendering "Patricia" in a spare, modern style. Pick a lane. It's fun stuff to listen to, and there is a wealth of information accompanying it.