Some jazz styles are still needed to complete the modern end of the spectrum.

1. A better Tony Williams/Jack DeJohnette up tempo style in the manner of Miles's mid sixties band and beyond to just about any post bop band these days..a sort of fusion of swing and straight feels.

2. An out-of-tempo abstract 'free jazz' style similar to late Coltrane bands with Rashied Ali.

3. An Andrew Hill free latin style suggesting latin/Carribean rhythms but broken up with lots of fills and played at no fixed tempo. Listen to 'Time Lines' on Blue Note to get an idea of what I mean. Or Paul Motian's song 'Mumbo Jumbo'on the ECM 'Garden of Eden'.

4. A broken time freer kind of funk style in the manner of Miles's 'Funky tonk' from 'Live Evil' that anticipates 'drum 'n bass' styles of the 90's and after.

5. An Ed Blackwell type of freebop/swing mixed with New Orleans marching influences. Any of Ornette Coleman's atlantics will give you an idea.

6. A Real Drums version of the style Ed Blackwell played on Ornette's 'Lonely Woman' which is often used on other similar modern jazz tunes.

7. A rolling eighth note ECM style similar to PATFAST but with Real Drums and piano comping more influenced by Richie Beirach than Lyle Mays

8. A later Coltrane straight ballad style with crash cymbals and lots of extravagant sounding piano trills, glisses and arpeggios.

9. Big band jazz styles using the voicings and arranging styles of Gil Evans and George Russell.

Alan