Yes Glenn some great musicians and their music in that list; I didn’t include them above in the “new artists” as I feel that even the youngest have been around at it for some time.
Really it all boils down to the warhorse question in jazz discussions: “What is jazz?” Some feel that any improvisational music with even a whiff of the tradition is “jazz.” Others feel that there’s a point where without enough of the tradition represented in the music it’s just plainly something else. The first time this really became a lynchpin question was in the 'forties with the separation of swing and bebop, and lovers of the New Orleans or Chicago or “dixie” collective improvisation style especially drawing a line in the sand and saying “this is jazz, that’s something else” . . . .
I’m pretty liberal with my inclusion of other elements in jazz up through the innovations brought on by the increasing use of electric instruments and their implementation and orchestration in the late 'fifties through the 'seventies. This brought fusion, soul jazz and smooth jazz. . . .European artists have moved jazz into both freer and more rigid zones as well since jazz began and some of these paths led jazz music far enough away from its roots to become something else for me. It really is a personal answer to the question “what is jazz” that will shape the scope of the genre, and if the circle is wider, enjoyment of the newest works may be deeper. I can definitely understand why a twenty or forty year old listener would have a different stance than sixty year old me. And vive la difference! I can study Prez and Bird and Ellington the rest of my life, happily, but that’s not where my limitations lie, and I’ll keep sampling the “here and now.”
Newly released MFSL SACD, sounding milky smooth. 
