Jazz and Electronic Music
History of Jazz
Jazz to Electronic Music
- Jazz originated in New Orleans in the mid 19th century.
- It evolved from Caribbean music from the West Indies incorporated with beats from Africa and church melodies from the south of the United States.
- A blend of these musical styles created ragtime -- a syncopated rhythms of previous genres.
- Blues musicians heavily incorporated the trumpets and trombones left over from wartime music into their own music.
- The fusion and blues and ragtime began the birth of Jazz music.
Emergence of Electronic Music
Electronic Music
- The world's first computer generated music was created by the University of Manchester in 1951, called the Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or the "Manchester Baby".
- This then progressed on to a more experimental and, some could say, a more "chaotic" incorporation of sounds to produce "electronic" music, or music that deliberately sounds electronic.
Electronic Music and Jazz?
Connection between Jazz and Electronic Music
- jazz - calm
- electronic music - eerie
- jazz - improvisation
- electronic music - introduction of new sounds sporadically
- not using traditional chord progressions or song structures
- dissonance
- polyrhythmic meters
Free Jazz
Coltrane or Pendericki?
- Free Jazz emerged through small groups experimenting with jazz in 1958.
- Comes under the style of avant-garde music.
- This new sub-genre was pioneered by alto-saxophonist, Ornette Coleman from his album Free Jazz (1960).
- Soon, artists like John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy dove deeper into this sub-genre.
...Avant-Garde, or Electronic Music
Genre-bending
Jazz and Electronic Music Today
- Electronic music has more of an influence on jazz music in the mid-1900s.
- Jazz is more influential on electronic music in modern songs.