Miles Davis (pictured in 1984), whose 1970s fusion music helped lead to the development of smooth jazz in the 1980s.
In the 1980s in jazz, the jazz community shrank dramatically and split. A mainly older audience retained an interest in traditional and straight-ahead jazz styles. Wynton Marsalis strove to create music within what he believed was the tradition, creating extensions of small and large forms initially pioneered by such artists as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
In the early 1980s, a commercial form of jazz fusion called pop fusion or "smooth jazz" became successful and garnered significant radio airplay. Smooth jazz saxophonists include Grover Washington Jr., Kenny G, Kirk Whalum, Boney James, and David Sanborn. Smooth jazz received frequent airplay with more straight-ahead jazz in "quiet storm" time slots at radio stations in urban markets across the U.S., helping to establish or bolster the careers of vocalists including Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Chaka Khan, and Sade. In this same time period Chaka Khan released Echoes of an Era, which featured Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White. She also released the song "And the Melody Still Lingers On (Night in Tunisia)" with Dizzy Gillespie reviving the solo break from "Night in Tunisia".
In the 1980sinjazz, the jazz community shrank dramatically and split. A mainly older audience retained an interest in traditional and straight-ahead...
soul, and hip hop, as well as jazz and disco. Acid jazz originated in clubs in London during the 1980s with the rare groove movement and spread to the United...
instruments, and highly amplified stage sound. In the early 1980s, a commercial form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, garnering significant...
smooth jazz gained popularity. In the late 1980s, glam metal became the largest, most commercially successful brand of music worldwide. The 1980s are commonly...
1980s, many hip-hop musicians were exploring jazz-rap, including groups like Gang Starr, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, and Nas. Concurrently, in the...
programming in the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. Smooth jazz may be thought of as commercially-oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 1980s, displacing...
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz...
Jazz rap (also jazz hop or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre, that developed in the late...
The Utah Jazz are an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City. The Jazz compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a...
Jazz dance is a performance dance and style that arose in the United States in the mid 20th century. Jazz dance may allude to vernacular jazz, Broadway...
subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...
house music that originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with the lush chords of 1980sjazz-funk and touches of soul music...
and John Lurie, they are widely regarded as pioneering voices in the 1980s East Village jazz scene that centered around clubs like The Knitting Factory....
of his recordings in the mid-1980s.[citation needed] In April 1986, Datchler, Nocito and Hayes released the first Johnny Hates Jazz single, "Me and My...
Norwegian jazz guitarist. Romano Ricciardi, Italian-Swiss saxophonist. Sasha Masakowski, American singer. 1980s portal Jazz portal 1980sinjazz List of...
drummer. 1980s portal Jazz portal 1980sinjazz List of years injazz 1981 in music "Vossajazz". Vossajazz. Retrieved 2016-04-30. "Nattjazz" (in Norwegian)...
fusion jazz blended rock and jazz, with saxophonists like Wayne Shorter and Michael Brecker at the front of that movement. In the 1980s, smooth jazz saxophonists...
documenting events of jazzin the year 1982. 2 – The 9th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 2 – 4). 26 – 10th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May...
clarinetist. 1980s portal Jazz portal 1980sinjazz List of years injazz 1984 in music "Vossajazz". Vossajazz. Retrieved 2016-04-30. "Nattjazz" (in Norwegian)...
history of jazzin Japan, which has the largest proportion of jazz fans in the world, according to some estimates. Jazz was introduced in Japan in the 1910s...
evolution of Jazz music in Germany reveals that the development of jazzin Germany and its public notice differ from the "motherland" of jazz, the US, in several...
engines are also used in another SCCA class, the F1600 Championship Series. Honda City - the original 'Tall Boy' Honda Jazz sold in1980s Europe Honda EV Plus...
events of Jazzin the year 1989. 27 – Woody Shaw was struck by a subway car in Brooklyn, NY, which severed his left arm. By the late 1980s Shaw was suffering...
Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. It is one of the defining...
songwriter. 1980s portal Jazz portal 1980sinjazz List of years injazz 1987 in music "Vossajazz". Vossajazz. Retrieved 2016-04-30. "Nattjazz" (in Norwegian)...
Jazz guitar may refer to either a type of electric guitar or a guitar playing style injazz, using electric amplification to increase the volume of acoustic...
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