Is Modern Jazz an Oxymoron?

I stream Tidal and stumbled into a an album titled:
Weltentraum Live (Philharmonie Berline)
Released 10/31/2014
Track 8 titled Little Person (live)

This piece captured my attention.  Wait until you hear the string bass come in.  Rich low notes just fill in the low end.  This piece would be a great demo piece to listen to a system.  The recording is just stunning.  The sound stage just captures everything.  Just wish I could have been there.  It is just a one of a kind piece you won't forget.  His piano work is really well done.  What a tight group.

@jaulbrich 

agree

chris potter and dave holland are true masters, still at the top of their craft

awesome skills and musicality

Jaulbrich, 

***so many young guys have come out NEC and Berkley where they learned to meld classical music with jazz. Yuck! Combining the two is an art form, but it is not jazz or classical. ***

What do base this on?  Meld classical with jazz?  Would love to hear an example of this.  Not that not it doesn’t happen, but “so many?” .  

I think “modern jazz” is meaningless. Fusion, hard bop, funk, classic jazz, smooth are more appropriate. If you want to say when records were released, fine. I tend to like hard bop or classic- Miles, Trane, Wes Montgomery, Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson, Lee Morgan, Stan Getz, Jimmy Smith. I also like some smoother artists like Pat Metheny Earl Klugh, and George Benson, and some Bob James, although he is a little too prolific. I used to listen to Spyro Gyra but grew out of it.