Led by artists like DOMi and JD Beck, a generation of rising players is infusing jazz with absurdist online irreverence. But are they playing jazz at all?

Sharing this because the songs linked in the article are quite good and make an excellent jumping-off-point for this scene, not because of the merits of the article itself.

Twitchy jazz, played by goofy nerds, in a not-traditionally-jazzy cultural milieu, is by no means a new phenomenon. Although, for a long time, live performances of it in parts of the world where Pitchfork writers are likely to live were probably pretty rare.