Saturday Music Club: some new schools of jazz (and jazz-derived music) since ca. 1960

*Free jazz:
Cecil Taylor with Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles: Bemsha Swing

(proto-free...you can hear fj sprouts emerging in this Thelonious Monk tribute, on Taylor's first album from 1955)

Cecil Taylor and the Art Ensemble of Chicago:


Air: Weeping Willow Rag


Jeanne Lee band: Sundance


Oregon: Beneath an Evening Sky


Anthony Braxton (with Buell Neidlinger, Mal Waldron and Bill Osborne): Brilliant Corners

(back to Monk; recorded 1987)

*Fusion
The Sun Ra Arkestra and the Blues Project: Batman

WFMU's Beware the Blog post on the 1966 album this is from

Gary Burton Quartet: Ballet


The Byrds: Eight Miles High


Gil Evans Orchestra: Crosstown Traffic


Gil Scott-Heron: Lady Day and John Coltrane


Mahavishnu Orchestra: Resolution


*Acid jazz, Go-go, Ska and such
The Skatalites: Skalloween


Miriam Makeba: Mas Que Nada

the original recording, before Brasil '66, by Jorge Ben Jor 

The Brand New Heavies: What Do You Take Me For?


Incognito: Always There; Nights Over Egypt


Monday Michiru: Will You Love Me Tomorrow?


Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers: Moody's Mood for Love



Of possible related interest:
Saturday Music Club: Early/Mid '80s Jazz-Pop Resurgence
McCoy Tyner and others
Some (latter-day, mostly) jazz big bands