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Compare And Contrast Jazz Rock

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Music Essay Aaliya Shafi 7B
Jazz Rock
21/1/2017
Jazz-rock may be known as the loudest, wildest bands from jazz camp. This is also known as Jazz-fusion as a musical genre, which was developed, in the late 19’60s and the early 19’70s. This was when artists merged different characteristics of Jazz harmony, and improvisation with styles such as: rock, funk, blues and Latin Jazz. Different artists started experimenting and trying out electrical instruments for the very first time. Jazz-Rock is quite different from earlier Jazz in a number of ways:
• Jazz’s rhythm is renowned by its “swing”, while on the other hand Jazz-fusion is more based on eighth or sixteenth note rhythms.
• Jazz mostly uses acoustic instruments such as piano, double bass, horns but jazz-rock mostly uses electronic instruments such as electric guitar, bass guitar, electric piano etc.
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• Miles Davis played an important role in jazz. He had been influential in the development of several Jazz aspects and styles including Be-Bop, cool and modal Jazz. I will come back to this artist in more detail afterwards.

Characteristics
1. Different use of electronic instruments (e.g. electronic piano, electric bass, electric guitar)
2. Electronic adjustments on acoustic instruments.
3. Pays more attention to detail on the studio recording technology and the process of recording.
4. Increased focus on straight eighth notes rather than swing.
5. Harmonies are usually simple chord repetitions.
6. The Bass Line is often recurring.
7. Saxophones are more used than bass instruments themselves.
(Reference for Characteristics- http://lmsmusic.org/jazzdialogue/JAZZ%20STYLE%20PERIODS.pdf , I tried writing in my own words as much as

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