Acid Jazz vs Nu Jazz
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Topic: Acid Jazz vs Nu Jazz
Posted By: js
Subject: Acid Jazz vs Nu Jazz
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2013 at 8:26pm
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Two modern jazz styles that appeared during the last two decades of the previous century. In some ways, these two styles continue the dichotomy of the hot and cool in jazz. Acid jazz is upbeat, funky music and is usually the "hotter" of the two. Nu jazz is generally more "cool" and sometimes more somber, although not all nu jazz is of a somber nature. Certainly there are good and bad artists in either genre, but generally speaking, which do you prefer?
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Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2013 at 8:50am
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I approve of the explanation mentioned above and do not have an objection. As a result, I went to Acid Jazz. Such a music was popular in the 90s in particular since Acid Jazz just attracted attention in Japan. I explained it when Acid Jazz was popular in Japan because it was derived from the British club, and jazz fused in upbeat when the commentator was the jazz which could dance it as a definition. However, people hold a home party in old days, and I know that people dance it in total and enjoyed it for the performance of the jazz band there. I think that the people have already danced with pure jazz.
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Posted By: idlero
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2013 at 10:28am
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In Acid Jazz I have only one favourite-St Germain, while in Nu Jazz I have several so I voted for Nu Jazz ------------- I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ... Ken Burns |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2013 at 11:33am
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I have a good idea of acid-jazz, but nu-jazz is more nebulous a concept to me...
Can anyone give a few names or samples??
Not of something that would be the extreme top (but why not??) but something that is representative or run-of-the-mill... ------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2013 at 11:35am
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http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/nu-jazz%28subgenre%29.aspx" rel="nofollow - http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/nu-jazz(subgenre).aspx  |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2013 at 11:40am
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Acid jazz came fast and gone soon, small explosion but not enough content for future development Nu jazz never was so popular or known, and in fact never was so explored. Still trying to find new (nu?) ways Voted for nu
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2013 at 12:32pm
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I guess nu-jazz, as I agree with snobb that it's a more exploratory genre, whereas with Acid Jazz, I just think of early-mid 90s hip hop beats mixed with jazzy chords and such. I'm no expert on either, but Nu-Jazz has many more possibilities. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2013 at 8:44am
I have indeed taken a look at that page
 , but find whatever on it still rather confusing ...To me, Jaga Jazzist is generally pigeonholed as acid-jazz (though not highly representative of the current's soundscapes), and among the three videos available on the JMA page, the two Triangulization samples sound very acid-jazz to me
While the third (Sheckel) vid sounds like RIO-Metal-jazz
As for the soundbites proposed, some sound "post-rocky" (Schaefer), other sound 60's jazz, etc... Only Portico Quartet rang a bell from these samples...
So if acid-jazz has a distinct sonic realm (at least from what I know/heard of it)...
The nu-jazz samples proposed still escapes a typical soundscape... it's musically all over the place (few common denominators or musical grounds between these samples), as the site description says, and seems more of a journalist invention based on geographics than a real musical movement per se
Soooo, if one "genre" englobes the other (in whole or only partially), it's logical that it bears more possibilities, but then I fail to see the point... outside raising a good conversation...
------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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snobb wrote:Posted By: Cannonball With Hat
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2013 at 3:15am
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I don't know either well enought to really comment on either but I'll go with nu-jazz from the limited amount of things I know. ------------- Hit it on Five. Saxophone Scatterbrain Blitzberg Stab them in the ears. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2013 at 1:50pm
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I thought Jaga Jazzist was nu-jazz??? They're one of the more familiar bands to me within that sub-genre.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2013 at 1:59pm
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Posted By: pinknote
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2013 at 2:17pm
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On one of the forums I come from, nu-jazz is a wide term (from St. Germain to... Medeski, Martin and Wood) and acid jazz is only used for Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies and some other related stuff. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2013 at 8:47am
Which goes to show that genre pigeonholing is anything but an exact science...
Anywhere in Western Continental Europe; St-Germain expamplifies/epitomizes acid-jazz... If you ask most people, they will say they (StG) invented acid-jazz (and they owe everything to Marc Moulin >> see Maessage in 92,
 which is not in our DB) http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/marc_moulin/maessage/" rel="nofollow - http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/marc_moulin/maessage/
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 ------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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