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Jazz-funk is a subgenre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat, electrified sounds, [1] and analog synthesizers.The integration of funk, soul, and R&B music and styles into jazz resulted in the creation of a genre that ranges from pure jazz improvisation to soul, funk or disco with jazz arrangements, jazz riffs, jazz solos, and sometimes soul vocals. [2]
20 Jazz Funk Greats is the third studio album by British industrial music group Throbbing Gristle, released in December 1979 by the band's Industrial Records label. Known for its tongue-in-cheek title and artwork, it has been hailed as the band's best work, with Fact naming it the best album of the 1970s and Pitchfork naming it the best industrial album of all time.
In 2021, the band reissued a celebratory, 40th anniversary, 106 track retrospective of their debut album, Jazz Funk. The Brit funk pioneers have released a music video for the track "You Are in My System." The deluxe reissue features a 52 page booklet with liner notes written by Charles Waring and a selection of the band's archive photos. [5]
Jazz, jazz funk, jazz fusion, funk Herbie Hancock, The Headhunters. Keith Jarrett: Keyboards 1945 Jazz, Western classical music, jazz fusion, free improvisation Miles Davis, Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea. As leader: Expectations (1972), with Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (2005) Alphonso Johnson: Bass 1951 Jazz, jazz fusion, funk
[47] [51] Its music video, directed by Jonathan Glazer, played heavily on MTV, [52] which depicted Kay "perform[ing] in a room where the floors, walls and furniture all moved simultaneously." [ 53 ] "Cosmic Girl" was released as its third single on 20 November 1996, [ 54 ] reaching number 6 in the UK and number 7 in the US Dance Club Songs charts.
Flamenco jazz is a style mixing flamenco and jazz, typified by artists such as Paco de Lucia and Camarón de la Isla. 1960s -> Free funk: A combination of avant-garde jazz with funk music 1970s -> Free jazz: Free improvisation is improvised music without any specific rules. By itself, free improvisation can be any genre, it isn't necessarily jazz.
Blending soul, funk and jazz with a street edge, they became a cult group on the underground black music scene of the late 1970s. Their song "Glide", from the album Future Now, went to #55 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #10 on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart in 1979; it was their biggest hit. The band broke up in 1982. A new version of the ...
The jazz funk band Freeez started in North London in 1978. [2] Their first single, "Keep In Touch" (1979) was self-funded and produced by John Rocca on his Pink Rhythm Record label [2] (later signed to Calibre/Pye), and included guitarist Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick, who went on to become the initiator of the musical band Incognito.