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Jazz-funk is a subgenre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat, electrified sounds, and analog synthesizers. The integration of funk, soul music, and R&B music and styles into jazz resulted in the creation of a genre that ranges from pure jazz improvisation to soul, funk or disco with jazz arrangements, jazz , jazz solos, and sometimes soul vocals. Similar genres to jazz funk include acid jazz. Acid jazz a fusion of jazz funk・・ Santiagounderground.com 13 December 2024
Jazz funk musicians used electric instruments, such as the Rhodes Piano or electric guitar, bass guitar, organ, particularly in jazz fusion. Miles and the invention・・・ sweetwater.com Retrieved 10 August 2024 Herbie Hancock played ARP Odyssey synthesizer and clavinet on album Head Hunters (1973). The Iconic Sounds Of Synthesis: Herbie Hancock's Chameleon Bassline synthtopia.com Retrieved=2024-8-10 Jennifer Lopez popularized "jazz funk dance" in the sketch comedy In Living Color.
The controversy may have helped jazz find a larger audience.Article referring to Donald Byrd the Mizell Brothers from John Murph in JazzTimes magazine dated April 04 By contrast, pop audiences found it "too jazzy" and, therefore, too complex.Journal of American Culture, Art vs. the Audience: The Paradox of Modern Jazz, by R Francesconi, winter 1981, also see article "Films from the Young-Man-with-a-Horn Genre" form the journal of macro marketing by Coulumbia uni' MN Holbrook
Some mainstream artists in jazz used specialist producers to commercial success. Larry and Fonce Mizell produced jazz-funk artists such as Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Gary Bartz, Roger Glenn, the Blackbyrds, and Donald Byrd. Black byrd tidal.com Retrieved 30 July 2024
London-based jazz funk pioneers drew a new audience to jazz: notably pirate radio Invicta 92.4 and JFM. In the late 1980s, rare groove crate diggers–DJs in England who were interested in looking back into the past and re-discovering old tunes–Norman Jay and Gilles Peterson achieved prominence.
While the majority of jazz-funk bands are American, Brit funk artists and bands emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were encouraged by club DJs such as Chris Hill and Robbie Vincent, who was then on BBC Radio London, and Greg Edwards, who had a show on London's first commercial radio station, Capital Radio. They launched a jazz festival in 1980, where the jazz-funk band Light of the World performed. Jazz-funk was also played on Europe's first soul station, Radio Invicta, and pirate radio stations such as Solar Radio, Horizon, and Kiss FM. The first of these bands to establish a UK identity was Light of the World, formed by Kenny Wellington, Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick and other musicians.
Acid jazz is a related jazz genre, but places more emphasis on groove, similar to funk, hip hop, and club dance music. Incognito, The Brand New Heavies, Jamiroquai, and the James Taylor Quartet helped the acid jazz movement surge in popularity. UK group US3 signed to Acid Jazz Records, founded by Peterson and Eddie Piller. US3 covered "Cantaloupe Island", originally recorded by Herbie Hancock.
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