jazz-funk

Jazz-funk exhibits several distinctive characteristics. A first characteristic of jazz funk has simple structure based around one or two riffs, and second characteristic of jazz funk has a harmonic structure that allows musicians to improvise.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdtk92p|title=Jazz funk|website=BBC Bitesize | access-date=9 August 2024}} Modern jazz funk music was influenced by Herbie Hancock.[https://medium.com/@brushesandneedles2023/herbie-hancocks-influence-on-modern-music-tracing-his-impact-across-genres-98b6562c0bf5 herbie-hancocks-influence・・・] Medium. 9 August 2024 The Mizell Brothers were producers for many jazz and soul artists. Examples of early jazz funk albums include Miles Davis' On the Corner (1972){{cite book|last=Freeman|first=Philip|year=2005|title=Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=1-61774-521-9|pages=10, 178}} and Jimmy Smith's Root Down (1972).{{cite web|last=|first=|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=root-down-mw0000609570|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=AllMusic|title=Root Down| accessdate=10 August 2024}} The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Lightnin' Rod,{{cite magazine|url=http://www.dmcworld.net/features/jalal-of-the-last-poets/ |title=Jalal of The Last Poets|magazine=DMC World Magazine| access-date=13 December 2024}} T.S. Monk, Pleasure, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Lenny White, Don Blackman, Monk Higgins, Wilbur Bascomb,[https://www.discogs.com/ja/artist/298580-Wilbur-Bascomb Wilbur Bascomb] Retrieved 20 June 2023 the Blackbyrds, Donald Byrd and Les DeMerle[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/les-demerle-mn0000203594/biography Les DeMerle] at Allmusic. Retrieved 20 June 2023 and Michael Henderson{{cite book|editor-first1=Michael |editor-last1=Erlewine |title=All Music Guide to Country: The Experts' Guide to the Best Recordings in Country Music|date=1997 |pages=88, 208|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Mo7xm-X1r4C&pg=PA208|ref=AMG country|series=AMG All Music Guides |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=978-0-87930-475-1}} released jazz funk albums.

Jazz funk musicians used electric instruments, such as the Rhodes Piano or electric guitar, bass guitar, organ, particularly in jazz fusion.[https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/miles-davis-and-the-invention-of-fusion/ Miles and the invention・・・] sweetwater.com Retrieved 10 August 2024 Herbie Hancock played ARP Odyssey synthesizer and clavinet on album Head Hunters (1973).[https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/04/21/the-iconic-sounds-of-synthesis-herbie-hancocks-chameleon-bassline/ 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.{{Cite web |date=2018-08-20 |title=Remember when J.Lo was a 'Fly Girl'? |url=https://nypost.com/2018/08/20/remember-when-j-lo-was-a-fly-girl/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=New York Post |language=en-US}}

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{{cite web|url=http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=10465|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614023915/http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=10465|archive-date=June 14, 2006 | title=Blue Note Records }} produced jazz-funk artists such as Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Gary Bartz, Roger Glenn, the Blackbyrds, and Donald Byrd.[https://tidal.com/magazine/article/black-byrd/1-92214 Black byrd] tidal.com Retrieved 30 July 2024

{{See also|Brit funk}}

In the UK's nightclubs of the mid-late 1970s, DJs including Colin Curtis in Manchester, Birmingham's Graham Warr and Shaun Williams, and Leeds-based Ian Dewhirst and Paul Schofield championed the genre, along with Chris Hill and Bob Jones in the South.Cotgrove, Mark (2009). Mark Cotgrove, From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz: The History of the UK Jazz Dance Scene. Chaser Publications. {{ISBN|978-1-4389-7360-9}}.

London-based jazz funk pioneers drew a new audience to jazz: notably pirate radio stations 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.{{Cite web|title=BBC – Radio 1 – Gilles Peterson – Biography|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/biography.shtml| access-date=2024-07-30 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}

While the majority of jazz-funk bands are American, British jazz-funk artists and bands emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s.{{Cite web|url=http://web.ukonline.co.uk/soulies/jazz_fusion.htm|title=Soulies - The story of club soul in Britain|date=August 31, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050831092450/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/soulies/jazz_fusion.htm |archive-date=2005-08-31 }} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2021/10/26/a-secret-history-of-uk-dance-how-black-brit-funk-shaped-the-acid-revolution/|title=A secret history of UK dance – how black Brit funk shaped the acid revolution}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.solarradio.com/page.asp?pg=history|title=The Story of Soul Music Radio in the U.K |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519092119/http://www.solarradio.com/page.asp?pg=history|archive-date=May 19, 2006}} The first of these bands to establish a UK identity was Light of the World, formed by Kenny Wellington,{{cite web|url=http://www.myspace.com/kennywellington |title=Featured Content on Myspace |publisher=Myspace.com |access-date=2015-06-03}} 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.{{cite web |title=Acid Jazz Music Genre Overview |url=https://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/acid-jazz-ma0000002414 |website=AllMusic | access-date=12 August 2024}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/us3-mn0000173289|title=Us3 Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More | AllMusic|website=AllMusic}}

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