New Jack Swing

New Jack Swing is the name of the mid-1980s by Teddy Riley reasoned music genres. The term was coined in 1988 by journalist and director Barry Michael Cooper. New Jack Swing combines the urban genres R & B and hip -hop through the use of simple keyboard melodies, samples from the funk music (especially James Brown) and grooving, percussive drum machine beats, influenced by the syncopated rhythms of swing are. Especially at the beginning of the 1990s influenced the music mainstream prevail.

The most successful releases of the genre were Do not Be Cruel (1988 ) by Bobby Brown and Dangerous ( 1991) by Michael Jackson. Teddy Riley was instrumental in two albums, as well as on the soundtrack of the film New Jack City (1991 ), who also brought the New Jack Swing to the movies. In addition to Riley, Kenneth " Babyface " Edmonds was the most important producer of the genre.

Other important New Jack Swing artists were about Keith Sweat, Boyz II Men, Tony! Toni! Tone! , En Vogue, Kool Moe Dee and Heavy D. In relation to female performers of the term New Jill Swing was also marked. Much of the artist was at the record company Uptown Records.