Timeline for What happened to Jazz in 1980?
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| Jan 14 at 23:11 | comment | added | paul garrett | Having lived through the music eras from the 1960s... I have to say that Pat Metheny's music, regardless of whether people liked it, was not "jazz". It was "smoothed-out jazz", maybe. Like some of the earlier "west-coast jazz", or... ahem... "French jazz"... that made noisier and/or elevator muzak... in my opinion. I know that there are other viewpoints. :) | |
| Jan 13 at 1:40 | comment | added | Aaron | @Mazura That's a great reminder that more than Wynton was going on. Both the return to straight-ahead jazz and the rise of smooth jazz moved away from the free jazz of the 60s and fusion of the 70s. Another major change that came soon afterward was the significant entry of jazz into music schools and the standardization of jazz education. | |
| Jan 13 at 1:30 | comment | added | Mazura | Kenny G "happened". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_jazz "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." | |
| Jan 12 at 6:02 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added more info on Marsalis's controversial side
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| Jan 11 at 21:20 | vote | accept | Bipolar Minds | ||
| Jan 11 at 20:26 | comment | added | John Belzaguy | That is certainly the case based on what he says, especially when he elaborates and says (paraphrasing) “let’s put suits and ties on and play some new original music that was built on the shoulders of people who were in fact playing for their friends”. The implication is in 1980 they were recycling music that at one time was fresh and innovative. | |
| Jan 11 at 20:03 | history | answered | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |