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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2021 3:29:02 GMT 10
When would you say Jazz music was at their height? I'm unsure about this one.
Listening to Kenny G's works from the 1980s and 1990s. His 1980s work contains synths, even if not as loud as popular 1980s pop. His 1990s work sounds like a production for a early/mid 1990s R&B album, a little more stripped.
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Post by Telso on Nov 30, 2021 22:37:16 GMT 10
The best decade for jazz music is IMO the 60s when the avant-garde movement took the genre by hold, and some of the genre's greatest albums came out like Charles Mingus' The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch.
Although the late 50s are a close second, back when styles like modal jazz and hard bop were peaking.
Here's a small sample of jazz evolution throughout the decades. A good beginner's guide:
1900s - Ragtime and brass bands form important precursors to jazz.
1910s - Jazz' early beginnings in New Orleans
1920s - Duke Ellington revolutionizes the genre by incorporating a steady, swinging rhythm.
1930s - Swing is established as a genre and fully dominates popular music.
1940s - Swing is still king, but bebop, a genre that puts emphasis on improvisation is established.
Swing:
Bebop:
Early 50s - Bebop completely replaces swing.
Mid-50s - Bebop starts to evolve into cool jazz (slower jazz) and hard bop (R&B/gospel-inspired jazz). Jazz as a whole becomes an album genre rather than a singles' genre, and barely has presence on the singles' charts from now on.
Hard bop:
Cool jazz:
Late 50s - Hard bop is now THE jazz sound, but Miles Davis also establishes modal jazz (jazz using modes) and Ornette Colleman ushers in the avant-garde age. This was a fantastic era for jazz experimentations.
Hard bop:
Modal jazz:
Avant-garde jazz:
Early to mid-60s - Hard bop starts to decline, and jazz more and more embraces the avant-garde movement. Free jazz is established during this time. Tracks are getting extremely long.
Avant-garde jazz:
Free jazz:
Late 60s - Jazz artists are slowly getting more and more tired of the avant-garde movement, and move towards jazz fusion (jazz that take influences from rock and folk).
Avant-garde jazz:
Free jazz:
Jazz-fusion:
Early to mid-70s - Jazz fusion is now the main jazz trend. Funk and rock are major influences on jazz.
Jazz-fusion:
Jazz-funk:
Jazz-rock:
Late 70s - Smooth jazz evolves out of jazz fusion and takes influences from pop instead, a terrible precedent for the genre that will soon become a joke
Jazz-fusion:
Smooth jazz:
1980s - Smooth jazz fully dominates popular jazz, and becomes the absolute nadir of jazz fans. The genre is just a shell of its former self at this point and starts to severly decline in popularity as a whole.
1990s - Smooth jazz declines and jazz becomes officially an underground genre. Nu jazz is established and takes influences from electronic music.
2000s - Nu jazz becomes standardized, and blends in many influences. Jazz fully embraces its underground statue but becomes more and more popular in the indiesphere of music.
2010s - Nu jazz declines, and jazz becomes extremely popular with the indiesphere to the point I like to call this era the "indie jazz" phase.
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