Nu Jazz

Nu Jazz or Nujazz ( sometimes referred to as electro - jazz ) is a style of electronic music of the late 1990s and 2000s. Nu is a slang spelling of the word new (English: 'new' ).

In an instant jazz to jazz elements combine with electronic music. Like Electronica or Downtempo Nu Jazz is the term not precisely defined, but is used in many ways and used for many different musical variations. As Nu Jazz, for example, both House with jazz impacts (such as St Germain ) and the so-called broken beat of Bugz in the Attic or 4Hero are called. Even the jazz and Detroit techno sound was strongly influenced by the British techno producer Kirk Degiorgio ( As One ) and Ian O'Brien can be categorized as Nu Jazz.

Often the genre is considered as the successor of Acid Jazz, because its development was carried out for similar reasons. While acid jazz - basically a modern combination of jazz, funk and soul - need not necessarily be connected with electronic music, Nu jazz can be described generally as a variety of electronic music. However, both genres is their eclecticism, its catchiness and its musical ambitions in common. Nu Jazz here has much more intersections with other styles. Jazz and electronic music are just as backbone, as the lowest common denominator, to look at.

Most Nu- jazz producers come from the electronics field and give their music with jazz textures and jazzaffiner instrumentation ( such as acoustic bass lines or virtuoso Fender Rhodes keyboard pads ) an organic flair. A fundamental aspect of this mode of production based electronic music is an attempt to establish more complex musical structures and a balanced ratio of samples, programmed and live recorded passages - for example, with acoustic instruments such as double bass, percussion or brass - to reach. Many producers rely doing in their work on fusion musicians of the 1970s such as Roy Ayers and jazz greats such as Herbie Hancock and Sun Ra, the already trodden similar paths.

In addition to electro - jazz was used for this music initially the designation Future Jazz (based on the since 1995 the label Munich Compost Records published, influential compilation series "The Future Sound Of Jazz", but with the word jazz in the title rather to the experimental approach of production, alluding to her gathered tracks). The only since the late 1990s used term Nu Jazz established gradually and almost for any merger- based, from a wide range of influences ( among others of folk -influenced musical styles from Brazil, Latin America and Africa) embossed - even without audible jazz aesthetic - and, therefore, hard to categorize electronic music beyond the established genre boundaries.

Under Nu Jazz can also classify projects that have taken the opposite way and enrich jazz -borne music with electronic elements or rely on electronic means of production. Examples are the British The Cinematic Orchestra, the Belgian keyboardist Marc Moulin, Jaga Jazzist from Norway, Koop and Povo from Sweden, scalpel from Poland or in years with electronic sounds experimenting classic jazz musicians such as the pianist Bugge Wesseltoft ( with his band New Conception of jazz) and trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer from Norway. Especially in Scandinavia experienced jazz through this opening also the young audience a high popularity. To publish on labels such as Jazzland, DNM or Raw Fusion naturally young, more classic sounding jazz acts in addition to the jazz fusion leanings, electronics engineers.

The term Nu Jazz is rejected because of his lack of differentiation of many protagonists of the scene as " restrictive " and " schubladisierend " because it is merely constituted a marketing phrase. DJ Gilles Peterson guru, however, who made ​​a gag out with Eddie Piller created in 1988 the term " Acid Jazz ", the name does not look at as a negative, but rather to see it as an opportunity, the more public music and the listener to provide an orientation.

The rejection of " Nu Jazz ", the stigmatizing style specification related and progressive commercialization in the form of second-rate compilations led to the creation of a number of counter- terms such as " Neofusion " (also " Neophusion " written ) or " Freestyle", which should prevent stylistic requirements. Reinboth, makers of Compost Records, introduced the term Nu Jazz even with a "Jazz Not Jazz" denominated plate column ( which is now disputed by Michael Rütten ) in the jazz magazine Jazz Thing absurdity.

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