The New Jazz Explosion, Meet the new musicians making the waves plus some of the old. I have been following the resurgence of jazz for the past five years, both in the UK and New York. Whilst remaining a massive fan of the greats, there is no doubt that jazz is very much alive and kicking. What is great about today’s bunch of musicians is that they have not sought to reworked the music of the past, but presented us with a vibrant, brand new sound which allies with other current genres of music such as hip hop, neo soul and Afro Caribbean music. They have succeeded with the help of British and American DJs such as Bradley Zero and Floating Points in liberating jazz for the dancefloor to the extent that it’s now not unheard of for a 10-minute Pharaoh Sanders odyssey to be spun on the decks to an appreciative, twentysomething crowd. They have given the medium a serious overhaul and in the process made it relevant for today.