I’m in love - I need your best recs in the jazz-funk, acid jazz, and “nu” jazz vein for a playlist I’m new to jazz (though I have enjoyed jazz-adjacent music as well as some bossa nova here and there over the years) but goddamn man, Donald Byrd’s “Places and Spaces” album is so fucking good. I think what I love about this album in particular is that it grooves HARD but it also never loses that spirit of improvisation and the feeling I have as a listener of not exactly knowing what to expect next. Those are qualities I’ve come to associate with jazz so far on my short journey. This sound is one of my favorites and I want to get into more stuff like it. I’ve also really been enjoying some Herbie Hancock and Ronnie Foster from around this same era as well as acid jazz stuff from the 90s (Incognito, Groove Collective, James Taylor Quartet, etc.) as well as some electronic and hip-hop tinged jazz (St. Germain, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Flying Lotus, etc.).…