Haven't found a lot of new jazz, but a couple of acts that tend towards that direction are Dave Guy, his new album Ruby is some cool stuff, and The Olympians self-titled album is cool as well, sort of jazz with some soul roots. The Olympians album is really great from start to finish.

Father time remains undefeated.

What were you expecting?

....shits rigged I tell ya!

Wow Daverock, I don't recognize a single thing you said about the 70's. Maybe that is because we were living in completely different parts of the country. I was living on the south coast at the time. In the first half of the decade some so-called progressive bands became very pretentious but the less famous bands were as good as they had been in the late 60's. Most broke up or had become irrelevant by the second half of the 70's. Punk and suchlike was largely invisible in my part of the country. There were a few punks and some skinheads in town but you had to look hard to find them. I recall 1969 - 1974 as being the best period for music and the 1980's as being the worst. I'm surprised at how much our views of that period vary.

In Britain it was the first half of the 1970's that were written off - mainly by some really good writers from the N.M.E. The feeling they expressed was that the 1960's featured exciting, ground breaking music, but when the 1970's kicked in technique, rather than inspiration kicked in. Most of the bands and artists from the 60's that were still around were considered past their best, and bands that came to the fore in the 70's were regarded as dull. The Stooges and the MC5 were held up as the way to go. I can remember getting Raw Power when it came out, and that seemed incendiary - very different from other hard rock albums.
Write ups were printed about the new wave of American bands who played at CBGBs, and along with the two bands mentioned above, they was considered something of a guiding light. The first Patti Smith album, and even more so the first Ramones album that came out in 1976 were really influential in this country, paving the way for the Sex Pistols and punk. As far as the critics were considered, rock had been saved at the last minute, and a lot of people went along with that.
It all seems very different now, I must say. Punk from England in the mid-late 70's is one form of music I can no longer stand - although as a teenager going to those gigs in 1976-1977 it was 'triffic.

Thanks Charlie for the big list name drop of bands! I have actually heard of and bought some of them groups before. Mainly ones I've listened to on the local jazz station, then bought piecemeal off internet tunes.
El Michaels and Budos were new bands to my surprise, they've got such a retro feel for their new arraignments. You'd think they came from a time warp it sounds so authentically old school. Real good tunes!

Sturgill is the man love his music.

....Mrs. Vguy is praying it's just a phase (Although, she doesn't ask me to turn down Flight b741).
Probably their most accessible release.
These guys cover a lot of ground genre-wise.
Some Gizz stickers arrived in the mail today. "Don't worry honey! It's just a phase."
I've checked out Tame Impala Charlie. They are good. So are Dogs In A Pile. And no, they are not a GD cover band.

I always dig checking in and maybe getting some cool reference to some band big or small, known or not so know sometimes even better. You never know what might sound right at any time in your experience.
I love Dwight Yoakam and somehow notice the other day he had a new release today so I'm checking it out now. Also sad to say I never had Black Sabbath Dehumanizer, but friend sent a text the other the day with the song 'I' and knew I had to add to collection.
And finally on some movie digs recently ripped Repo Man from 1984 featuring an LA stock punk rock lineup for the soundtrack, and a plot probably too offensive for some squares...hehe. Just kidding. like Phil might say...We're playing this years music folks....Thanks Phil and The Goddamn Grateful Dead