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Recent development (2000~)
Tokyo remains to be the major and central place for thriving jazz community. Influenced by modern jazz in America which utilizes odd meters and rhythmic, harmonic elements of Hip hop, R&B, Neo soul, new tastes of sound have been added to bands and artists such as

MEGAPTERAS, Yasei Collective, Shun Ishiwaka, Mononkul.

In 2012, Ai Kuwabara, a jazz pianist and whose style is described as post-Hiromi Uehara, released her first album from here to there. Five years later, she recorded somehow, someday, somewherewith Steve Gadd and Will Lee.

Shun Ishiwaka, jazz drummer and composer, released his debut album Cleanup in

2015 in which he combined elements of contemporary classical music, hip hop, straight ahead jazz.

In 2016, Ishiwaka did a collaboration with phenomenal guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel at Blue Note Tokyo.

While modern jazz sound is becoming mainstream in the music scene, there are still some jazz musicians who plays traditional style of jazz such as Bebop, Hard bop, and post-bop.