This started out as an email to one of my favorite Night Watch drummers. But I thought it would also make a great blog post.

Lets start with The Bad Plus.

These guys are right up there with Medeski Martin and Wood for craziness. (minus the weird piano gadgets) You can definitely here the traditional jazz influence, but my favorite part is that they incorporate alternative rock into their playing also.

Next Esbjorn Svensson Trio.  I don’t have very many thoughts.  Just enjoy.

Last Avishai Cohen. He’s Israeli American. So he is very much influenced by the middle eastern sound.  I dig it.

So there you go.  I don’t have many thoughts on this yet.  The videos should speak for themselves.  Enjoy!

And as always; Thanks for stopping by!

-T