yeah chris potters pretty good. his cd vertigo is my favorite with kurt rosenwinkel on guitar. rosenwinkel is really good too. for his "out" stuff check a group called human feel. on his cd the next step he completely retuned his guitar so he could get out of the constraints of all the theory in his fingers and hands.

piano player jason moran is really great. his drummer nasheet waits is my all time favorite drummer these days. elvin jones' extension in some ways. his cd black stars with the t sax player sam rivers who is around 78 and still blows his guts out is really good.

check out some nels cline for really good sonic youth inspired jazz noise improv rock stuff. guitar player extaorinaire yes.

matt

sex mob has a slide trumpet, not a sax

check out
"the Thing"

thanks silverfreepress, i'll give them a try

it might have been a trumpet i can't remember that well it was nearly a year ago, so fingers crossed

cold bleak heat
corsano/flaherty

Ray Brown died a couple of years ago, but he was stil doing nice (albeit mainstream) stuff.

it wasn't sex mob, but i liked them a lot anyway. The band i'm looking for was more aggressive sounding, almost thrash jazz if you could call it that

Bugge Wesseltoft is a very interesting jazz/electronic keyboardist. His New Conception of Jazz band have done some fine stuff, especially the LP Film'ing

i second the suggestions for mats gustaffson, peter brotzmann, paul flaherty & chris corsano & cold bleak heat. i also suggest tracking down recordings by the graveyards (sometimes called burning graveyards, when joined by spencer yeh). they're an amazing free jazz group featuring john from wolf eyes (not a noise thing, all post -Ayler free inzanity..)
cheers, wc

I applaud The Bad Plus & Soweto Kinch mentions, because those are good responses.
they are both too "fusion" for my tastes, but still better than most contemporary jazz out there.

The Frank & Joe Show features some blazing jazz guitar. To a lesser extent, so does Mark Elf. Kurt Rosenwinkel was also aptly mentioned. Usually Larry & Brad play on his albums & it's swingin' straight-ahead stuff with just some hints of fusion.

There really is only one answer to the topic poster's question though. The decidedly non-swingin' but completely exciting

Brad Mehldau Trio.

Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint have something coming out soon.
Zaar just released some hurdy-gurdy infected jazz rock.

i saw the SF jazz collective last night. they're a bunch of famous jazz musicianss/composers (joshua redman, nicholas payton, bobby hutcherson) who get together once a year to write new stuff and play music of an influential jazz artist. this year they did herbie hancock. it was really cool, payton's composition was really wild, i guess you could call it math-jazz. they're really good- the drummer was amazing.