Acid Jazz
Acid jazz (also known as club jazz) is a musical genre that combines elements of soul music, funk, disco, particularly looping beats and modal harmony.[1]. It developed over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance/pop music. Acid Jazz is also the name of a recording label in the United Kingdom (founded by Gilles Peterson & Eddie Piller) which issues recordings by artists in the genre.
While acid jazz often contains various types of electronic composition (sometimes including sampling or live DJ cutting and scratching), it is just as likely to be played live by musicians, who often showcase jazz interpretation as part of their performance. The compositions of groups such as The Brand New Heavies and Incognito often feature chord structures usually associated with Jazz music. The Heavies in particular were known in their early years for beginning their songs as catchy pop and rapidly steering them into jazz territory before "resolving" the composition and thus not losing any pop listeners but successfully "exposing" them to jazz elements in "baby steps".
The acid jazz "movement" is also seen as a "revival" of jazz-funk or jazz fusion or soul jazz by leading DJs such as Norman Jay or Gilles Peterson or Patrick Forge, also known as "rare groove crate diggers".
Origins
The sound and clubs that went with it arose out of Southern England's rare groove scene of the late seventies and early eighties and various other alternative groups, including the London mod scene. It is distinguished from the Northern Soul scene (then popular in the South of England with clubs such as the 100 Club in Oxford Street) but still portrayed various similarities.The name came into common parlance with the Acid Jazz label but in reality the scene had existed in disparate forms and without a distinguishing name for some time beforehand. Journalists at the time appeared very confused by the genre and made various attempts to connect it to the London mod scene (by links with various former members of that scene, prominently Eddie Piller and the James Taylor Quartet - Taylor having formerly been Hammond Player for sixties garage band The Prisoners). Infamously, ID magazine ran an article on Acid Jazz Mods which irritated both mods and "acid jazz fans" in equal amounts.
The scene always had two halves, those who liked the original jazz and soul recordings and those who followed the new bands signed by labels like acid jazz. It is the former who still probably support their music, many of the early bands having fallen well by the wayside. Attempts to integrate the music with hip hop and jungle are now regarded by many as misguided attempts to keep the music fresh whilst leading it a long way from its starting point, attempts that were regarded with disdain by many.
An important gauge of the UK scene and the creation of the genre are to be found in the UK's Straight No Chaser magazine. Similarly, clothing labels like Duffer of St George were closely associated with the scene, although the "right outfit" was never essential.
Disc jockeys Gilles Peterson and Chris Bangs are generally credited with coining the term acid jazz at a 1987 'Talkin' Loud Sayin Something' session. At the time, this was Peterson's regular Sunday afternoon club at Dingwalls in Camden, London.
In his Radio 1 biograpahy, Peterson describes how the term Acid jazz came about. "We put on this old 7-inch by Mickey and the Soul Generation which was a rare groove record with a mad rock guitar intro and no beat. I started vary speeding it so it sounded all warped. Chris Bangs got on the microphone and said, 'If that was acid house, this is acid jazz'. That's how acid jazz started, just a joke!" BBC Radio 1 website, Gilles Peterson: Biography, (accessed 21 Mar 07)
Baltimore's underground club scene mixed with the town's love for “live music” the made it easy for bands such as trip hop giants Lake Trout and reggae/acid jazz hybrid The Big Hurt to be able to break into the mainstream and gain regional and national exposure.
Acid jazz in the international context
In the United States notable acid-jazz groups have included The Brand New Heavies and Solsonics; although during the 1990s the major contributions from the US related to jazz dance were predominantly in jazz-house (from labels such as 8 Ball Records) and jazz-rap, particularly by artists such as A Tribe Called Quest, Black Sheep, De la Soul, and the Jungle Brothers. From Japan, notable artists included United Future Organization who released 'I Love my Baby: My Baby Loves Jazz' as well as a cover of Van Morrison's 'Moondance'; another prominent artist from Japan was the female vocalist, Monday Michiru. From the UK, Repercussions who had a top hit, Promise me nothing. Other more recent artists and groups who have produced music in this genre include Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Mother Earth, Mr. Scruff, Visit Venus, Praful, and Down to the Bone.Key artists
- 4 Hero
- Arrested Development
- Atjazz
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Amel Larrieux
- Amon Tobin
- Audioform
- Azymuth
- Bernard "Pretty" Purdie
- Bird
- Blue Six
- Blue Train
- Bona Fide
- Bonobo
- Brand New Heavies
- Brooklyn Funk Essentials
- Broun Fellinis
- Corduroy
- Count Basic
- Dancing Fantasy
- De La Soul
- De-Phazz
- Digable Planets
- DJ Cam
- DJ Jazzy Jeff
- DJ Krush
- DJ Spinna
- Dodge City Productions
- Down to the Bone
- DZihan & Kamien
- D*Note
- D' Sound
- Five Point Plan
- Four 80 East
- Fourplay
- Funki Porcini
- Gang Starr
- Galliano
- Gary Foote
- Gizmo
- Greyboy
- Greyboy Allstars
- Groove Collective
- Groove Squared
- Heavyshift
- Herbert
- Incognito
- Jaga Jazzist
- James Taylor Quartet
- Jamiroquai
- Jay Dee / J Dilla
- Jazzanova
- Jazzhole
- Jazztronik
- Koop
- Kruder & Dorfmeister
- Kyoto Jazz Massive
- Lake Trout
- Leather Interior!
- Les Gammas
- Liquid Soul
- Marius Kahan
- Mark Farina
- Massive Attack
- Maysa Leak
- MC Solaar
- Medeski, Martin & Wood
- Melvin Sparks
- Micky More
- Mr. Scruff
- Mo'Horizons
- Mojack
- Moloko
- Moodymann
- Mondo Grosso
- Monday Michiru
- Mother Earth
- Muki
- Nicola Conte
- Nightmares on Wax
- Noel Zancanella
- Nu Groovers
- Nujabes
- Omar Lye-Fook
- Outside
- Paolo Achenza Trio
- Parov Stelar
- Paul Moran
- Pete Rock
- Phil Davis
- Poets of Rhythm
- Praful
- Q-Point
- Quantic
- Quantic Soul Orchestra
- RAD
- Reel People
- Reuben Wilson
- Revolution Void
- Ronny Jordan
- Roy Ayers
- Saint Germain
- Shazz
- Shilts (Paul Weimar)
- Skalpel
- Silent Poets
- Smoke City
- Smooth
- Snowboy
- Soulive
- SoulStice
- Sound Tribe Sector 9
- Speedometer
- Squarepusher
- The Cat Empire
- The Cinematic Orchestra
- The Egg
- The Pasadenas
- Thievery Corporation
- Tosca
- The Big Hurt
- Tussle
- United Future Organization
- Urban Species
- US3
- Victor Djamkotchian
- Walter The Orange Ocean
- Wax Poetic
- Wibutee
- Xploding Plastix
- Young Disciples
- Zebra
- Zero 7
Compilation albums
- Totally Wired
- Totally Wired II
- Totally Wired III
- Totally Wired Sweden
- The Story of Acid Jazz
- The Rebirth of Cool
- The History of Acid Jazz
- This is Acid Jazz
- Supa Funky
- Red Hot and Cool
- Jazz 'N Go
- Strictly Acid Jazz
See also
- Acid Jazz Records
- Nu-jazz
- Jazz rap
- Broken beat
- Michael Franti & Spearhead
- Trip hop
- Jazz-Funk
- Soul jazz
- Jazz Fusion
- Deep Funk
- Ninja Tune
- Groovera
- List of electronic music genres
Fonte: http://en.wikipedia.org
