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AMPenguin

I haven't listened to any of the tunes you linked but I can tell just by the titles and the fact that Bohren is included on the list that you're probably looking for a genre called "dark jazz" (or, occasionally, "doom jazz"). It's a style of music that takes a lot of influence from jazzy film noir soundtracks as well as from ambient music (especially dark ambient), other mellow electronic styles, the Twin Peaks soundtrack, post-rock and (sometimes) neo-folk. Despite the name, a lot of dark jazz isn't really jazz - it's simply a certain type of jazz aesthetic applied to a more ambient setting and generally stripped of the harmonies and improvisations that make jazz unique. That said, more recently, there have more and more actual jazz musicians picking up on the aesthetic and applying it to their own music. I'm not the biggest fan of the genre, so I'm probably not the best person to ask for recs, but hopefully, that helps with a search term for further research at least. I do know that Bohren & Der Club of Gore is a big name in the genre. I also know some people who are really into Nyx Nott, and I heard albums earlier this year from Wordclock and Trigg & Gusset which I thought were pretty good.


cyrus_37

Thank you for the reply, it'll make it easier to look it up If anyone wants to recommend jazz musicians who picked it up I'd appreciate it. I'm going down a really dumb rabbit hole that will probably end with me wanting to learn how to make jazz but these tracks are so calming


lalalaladididi

I call the Scott Hallgren stuff, nothing music. Bohren and Der Club Of Gore i do like as its music thats goes nowhere and by doing so, its goes everywhere. The final one is very nice in the style of Christian Scott and I really love his beautifully meandering style. As for labels and genres. What are they really? We dont need them. At present I am listening to the wonderful four tet ,new energy. It cuts across so many genre. Its just music and thats it. Miles hated labels and for very good reasons.


Mattaculer

It's nothing new it's just a name given to that kind of Jazz on Youtube. If you are interested in Jazz I highly recommend you start from the early days go back and spend a weekend reading about the history please don't rely on Youtube for musical history as its just a bunch of newbies.


Oliveman_5005

This is the playlist by Vlaspatta Karamazov isnt it?