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 Electronic Funk Jazz is also known as NuJazz. It emerged in the early nineties and refers to music styles that blend elements of jazz with funk, soul, dance and house. It features the use of traditional jazz instruments, jazz rhythms and the live improvisations of musicians combined with DJs, for example. NuJazz can be either traditional or experimental. A prerequisite is that the melody is fresh and that the rhythms are new and exude vitality. This genre is referred to by a number of terms including electro-jazz, e-jazz, jazztronica, jazz house, phusion, and future jazz.Related Artists : Electro Deluxe, Booster  The musical term Fusion / jazz rock is used to refer to genres in which two or more music styles are combined. It is often used in reference to the musical styles of Jazz-rock and Jazz-funk. Jazz-rock emerged at the end of the sixties when several jazz musicians began to combine elements of the (then still new) music style of rock 'n roll with jazz. This was sometimes due to pressure from record companies because jazz was waning in popularity while funk and rock were gaining large followings. Jazz-funk is a more polished variant of jazz-rock. You can hear the influence of rock in the power and intensity of the music. The drums play a different role than in jazz; there is a strong rhythmical basis that is influenced by sixties rock and funk music. A new component in jazz-rock was the use of electronically amplified instruments like the electric guitar and bass, and keyboards.Related Artists : Ostinato Diapora, Funky Skunk  A recent branch of improvised music is characterized by quiet, slow moving, minimalistic textures and often utilizing laptop computers or unorthodox forms of electronics. Jazz has always been a distinctively American idiom, with Europeans largely forming an appreciative audience and Europe's jazzmen following trends begun in the United States. At the end of the 20th cent., however, many Scandinavian and French musicians, feeling that mainstream American jazz expression had retreated into the past, began creating a new genre nicknamed “the European.” Returning to jazz's roots as dance music, they combined elements from European house, techno, drum and bass, and jungle music with acoustic, electronic, and sampled sound to create a more popular and populist variety of jazz. Musicians involved in this movement include Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft and trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, French pianists Martial Solal and Laurent de Wilde, French saxophonist Julien Lourau and flutist Malik Mezzadri, Sweden's Esbjorn Svensson Trio, and France's Ludovic Navarre and St. Germain groups.Related Artists : Bugge Wesseltoft, Laurent de Wilde  Jazz for Purist assimilated to free jazz or standard jazz. Although today "free jazz" is the generally-used term, many other terms were used to describe the loosely-defined movement, including "avant-garde", "energy music" and "The New Thing" . Free-jazz players were often said to be playing "outside" or "out" (as opposed to "inside", that is, conventionally).Related Artists : Dou Wei, Red hand Jazz Band  Much is made of the usage of improvisation in both forms, but the role that improvisation plays in jazz is very different and far more prominent/integral than that played by "freestyling" in hip-hop. Hip hop is a cultural movement that is mainly known for its music. It emerged in New York in the seventies. Hip hop features the following elements: DJs, MCs (beatbox), graffiti and breakdancing. It is worth noting that the music styles mentioned above flow one from the other and that the styles become rhythmically more calm or more basic. It also a style which is inclued samples by DJs, scratching.Related Artists : Beat Assailant, Belleruche Social network 
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