Seems you really like obscure, weird jazz, huh .
Not that obscure. Maria Schneider won 5 grammy awards (including "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album" for
The Thompson Fields), Henry Threadgill won the Pulitzer Price for Music for
In for a Penny, In for a Pound in 2016, and Wadada Leo Smith was nominated for the same prize in 2013. I expect these three albums to be on many jazz critics lists for the best albums of the decade.
Also, Tim Berne has been a major figure of the New York jazz scene for more than 30 years, and Satoko Fujii, in a time when the economical context of music makes particularly difficult to create big bands, leads not one but
five of them. Finally, Emile Parisien is one of the major young french jazz artists, and has won several prizes.
They do play weird music (except Maria Schneider), but they're widely recognized in the genre. The problem is that the genre gets more obscure every year (even if there seems to be a development of a more easier to listen, rock and pop influenced, jazz nowadays)...
I've probably listened more to other, more accessible, records in recent years, but these are some of the albums that I see myself still listening to in 5 or 10 years, because their musical density is such that I still discover new things in them after dozens of listens.
I'd love you to participate in my next roulette, whenever it happens.
I'll try, if I have the time and if I understand how these roulette things work
.