Jazz
After the lean years of the 1970s there was something of a British Jazz revival based in London's Soho in the 1980s. Initially this UK jazz dance scene was led by DJs like Paul Murphy, but it soon expanded to support live bands and to start its own record labels. The revival was marked by the appearance of a new generation of Black British musicians, including members of the influential groups Loose Tubes (formed 1983): Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and Julian Argüelles and Jazz Warriors (formed 1986): Courtney Pine, Gary Crosby, Julian Joseph, and later Soweto Kinch and Jason Yarde. The Acid Jazz label was formed in 1987, producing a mix of hip hop and funk beat flavoured jazz stylings that put traditional jazz elements over modern beats.
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“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)
“There’s more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that’s because the audience doesn’t really know what’s happening.”
—Pat Metheny (b. 1954)
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