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Jazz rap (also jazz hop or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre, that developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. AllMusic writes that the genre "was an attempt to fuse African-American music of the past with a newly dominant form of the present, paying tribute to and reinvigorating ...
Nov 11, 2020 · Jazz rap became somewhat démodé in the mid-to-late-‘90s with the mainstream dominance of G-funk and the “shiny suit era” of East Coast rap. But in recent years, it’s returned in vibrant form, something rapper and jazz trumpeter Leron Thomas—aka Pan Amsterdam —credits to the educational efforts of Wynton Marsalis.
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Jazz rap, also known as Jazz hip hop or Jazz hop, is a musical genre that mixes jazz and hip hop. It is also a subgenre of alternative hip hop . [1] It arose during the late 1980s in the United States , Canada and United Kingdom .
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Jazz-Rap was an attempt to fuse African-American music of the past with a newly dominant form of the present, paying tribute to and reinvigorating the former while expanding the horizons of the latter. While the rhythms of jazz-rap came entirely from hip-hop, the samples and sonic textures were drawn mainly from cool jazz, soul-jazz, and hard ...
Sep 23, 2016 · A Brief History of Jazz in Hip-Hop: Tribe, De La Soul, Digable Planets. In the late 80s and early 90s, bands like Gang Starr and The Roots brought us the revolutionary meetings of the minds that is jazz-infused hip-hop. Sometimes abbreviated into jazz rap or jazz hop, the style was born as a kind of homage to hip-hop’s evolutionary ...
