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Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music styles that blend jazz textures and sometimes jazz instrumentation, funk, electronic dance music, and free improvisation[1]. Also written nu-jazz or NuJazz, it is sometimes called electronic jazz, electro-jazz, e-jazz, jazztronica, jazz house, phusion, or future jazz. An umbrella term is a word that provides a superset or grouping of related concepts, also called a hypernym. ...
For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ...
Electronic dance music (EDM) is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. ...
Improvisation is the practice of acting and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of ones immediate environment. ...
- " Nu Jazz is to (traditional) Jazz what punk or grunge was to Rock. [...] The songs are the focus, not the individual prowess of the musicians. Nu Jazz instrumentation ranges from the traditional to the experimental, the melodies are fresh, and the rhythms new and alive. It makes Jazz fun again. " -- Tony Brewer, at All About Jazz
Overview
Like the terms electronica and jazz, nu jazz is a loosely defined umbrella musical style. It ranges from combining live instrumentation with beats of jazz house (exemplified by the French St Germain, the German Jazzanova and Fila Brazillia from the UK) to more band-based improvised jazz with electronic elements (such as that of the The Cinematic Orchestra from the UK, the Belgian PhusionCulture, Mexican duo Kobol, nu jazz improvisation collective, the Norwegian "future jazz" style pioneered by Bugge Wesseltoft, Jaga Jazzist, Nils Petter Molvær, and others). It is a term sometimes ascribed to Squarepusher's music. Electronica refers to a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; but unlike electronic dance music, is not specifically focused on the dance floor. ...
For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ...
Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ...
House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. ...
Saint Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French electronica and nu jazz musican. ...
Jazzanova is a German Berlin-based DJ/producer collective consisting of Alexander Barck, Claas Brieler, Jürgen von Knoblauch, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, and Axel Reinemer. ...
Fila Brazillia are a music group from Hull in North-East England. ...
The Cinematic Orchestra is a British-based jazz and electronic outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe. ...
Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born February 1, 1964) is a Norwegian jazz musician. ...
Jaga Jazzist is an experimental jazz band that rose to prominence when the BBC named their fourth album, The Stix (Ninja Tune/Smalltown Supersound), the best jazz album of 2002. ...
Nils Petter Molvær (born 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer and producer. ...
Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. ...
Nu jazz typically ventures farther into the electronic territory than does its close cousin, acid jazz (or groove jazz), which is generally closer to earthier funk, soul, and rhythm and blues, although releases from noted groove jazz artists such as the Groove Collective and Chris Hale blur the distinction between the styles. Acid jazz (sometimes groove jazz) is a musical genre that combines jazz influences with elements of soul music, funk, disco and hip hop. ...
For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ...
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For other uses, see Rhythm and blues (disambiguation). ...
For more than a decade, Groove Collective has been transcending categories with one goal in mind: to move listeners minds and feet. ...
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GAMM is a Swedish (underground) record label which has released 12 singles with artists such as Red Astaire, Tangoterje, Dubben and 7 Samurai. ...
RinneRadio is a trio of musicians from Finland. ...
Groovera (aka. ...
Japanese jazz concerns the history and form of Jazz in Japan. ...
Sources References - ^ Definition from Sergey Chernov, June 7, 2002, in The St. Petersburg Times [1]
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