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Jazz Today, Jazz Tomorrow (1990 - 2024 +)

Overview

Jazz Today (1990-2024)

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Important Figures on Today’s Jazz Scene – Five Eminent Representatives of Each Instrument

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Jazz Tomorrow

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Cultural Implications

Hip-Hop's Influence on Jazz and Vice Versa

7. all styles of jazz from Dixieland to contemporary are still being performed and recorded today; all style dates given are approximations of when each respective style came to the forefront of jazz and experienced its most concentrated development; of course, styles and dates overlap

8. sampling consists of digitally recording acoustic, synthesized, or previously recorded sounds for the purpose of electronically manipulating them (e.g., changing pitch, changing timbre, looping them, etc.); in acid jazz, entire musical phrases from old albums are often sampled then resynthesized as the basis for new recordings

9. looping is the continuous repetition of a musical phrase manipulated by electronic means; in acid jazz, the accompaniment portion of old records are often sampled then looped, providing the background for new recordings (over which are placed other synthesized sounds, raps, and jazz improvisations)

10. DIVA is an all-female big band

11. IHJ = selection is found on Willie Hill’s The Instrumental History of Jazz; JIA = selection is found on the Jazz in America website (www.jazzinamerica.org)

I. Jazz Today (1990-2024)

A. Basically Two Camps

Anything Goes vs. The Traditionalists

Anything Goes - no labels, no particular preconceived style, just music containing improvisation that could not have manifested without the jazz tradition.

elements of Swing, Hard Bop, Cool, Avant Garde, and Fusion

elements of classical music, especially 20th and 21st century techniques

elements of world music (all ethnicities, especially Latin, Eastern, and African)

elements of popular music, including rock, r&b, funk, and hip-hop

Mainstream Jazz (AKA straight ahead jazz)

jazz manifesting directly from the “jazz” tradition (i.e., a more narrowly defined version of jazz tradition, one that excludes Avant Garde, Fusion, and any jazz pioneered after 1963), most resembling the Hard Bop sensibility

seeks to identify the jazz masters of the past and explore their genius, focusing on Blues, Swing, and Bebop

the Retro movement has been under the tutelage of trumpet player Wynton Marsalis

B. Offshoots

M-Base

macro-based jazz, i.e., broad based

harmonic and structural elements of the late 1960s avant garde combined with rhythms and grooves of funk and hip hop; “free funk”

Acid Jazz

based on jazz-funk recordings of the 1960s and early ‘70s, classic R&B, and hip hop

much of acid jazz depends upon electronically excerpting portions of old records using sampling⁸ and looping⁹ techniques

often performed and recorded with Rap vocals

often features long improvisations over sampled vamps

live performances often feature musicians (usually horn players) along with DJs

C. Women in Jazz

in the past, women in jazz have made their greatest impact in the vocal jazz arena (e.g., Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan)

instrumental jazz, from its earliest roots, has been primarily male dominated

past female contributors to the instrumental jazz tradition include such pioneers as Lillian Hardin Armstrong (piano), Dorothy Donegan, (piano), Marian McPartland (piano), Shirley Scott (organ), and Mary Lou Williams (piano)

today, more and more women are becoming involved in jazz as students and educators as well as highly regarded performers and composer/arrangers

eminent female recording artists on today’s jazz scene include such distinguished musicians as:

Melissa Aldana, tenor saxophone

Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone

Jane Bunnett, soprano saxophone & flute

Terri Lyne Carrington, drums

Regina Carter, violin

Anat Cohen, clarinet

Claire Daly, baritone saxophone

Sheila E, percussion

Satoko Fujii, piano

Tia Fuller, alto saxophone