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For quite some time now, there, unfortunately, haven’t been
many big splashes in the jazz music pond worth noting. In fact, after the
height of fusion’s popularity in the early to mid ‘70s, jazz started to fade in
importance and esteem, save for prominent ‘70s and ‘80s artists like Pat
Metheny, Weather Report, and Wynton Marsalis. Since smooth jazz is more
commercial pop music than anything else, we’re left with many “true” jazz
artists producing music that has flown pretty much under the radar over the last
couple decades at least. Thank God, then, for a fine group of Canadian kids
named BADBADNOTGOOD, a band that offers a fusion of hip-hop, jazz, and other
influences that are hard to pin down to impressive effect.
