I'm looking for jazz styles that have a more variety of time feel to them. Where the beat is broken up more and he bass player doesn't just walk all the time. The drums should also accent in a less predictable manner and be busier with interesting fills and rolls at certain points.

In ballads there should be a more impressionistic feel not so concerned with just keeping time (like "After the Rain" at the very least if not wholly rubato sections a la ECM ballads)

There should be more variety of intensity levels in all of the styles, and for latin jazz there needs to be more styles that are actually played on a jazz kit.

In the more creative modern area, Drums wise there's nothing for example that comes close even to Ed Blackwell's New Orleans influenced style as of yet. and that's 60 years back ! So it's now officially old-time stuff. (compared to a lot of jazz today that works off a sort of unpredictable martial parade ground influenced funk/latin mix a la Henry Threadgill which would be great to have)

It's a long time since I asked for and got the modern styles that came way back in 2005 and I've been grateful for them but after a long break from the program it's a bit disappointing to see Real Tracks for jazz so tame and undifferentiated in basic feel. Certainly there are a none that would replace any of the midi modern jazz styles other than the most mainstream.

I'm not asking for Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton or Time Berne for goodness sake. I can do that for myself. But BIAB could do more for the modern definition of creative post bop I think in a more passionate authentic manner.


Hope there are some like minded folks here.

With respect to a great program that is capable of more.


Alan