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Jazz and Electronic Music

Harshita Sankar

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

Rule-breakers

Spontaneity

Provocative

  • 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.

Jazz, Free Jazz...

Timeline

Jazz

(1895)

Free Jazz (1958)

Avant-garde (1945)

Electronic Music (1953)

...Avant-Garde, or Electronic Music

Krysztof Penderecki

John Cage

Ornette Coleman

John Coltrane

Else Marie Pade

So who influenced who?

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.
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