[JPL] "Nu-Jazz" from All About Jazz & Wikipedia

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In a message dated 7/19/2007 12:32:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jaejazz at yahoo.com writes:

Not directed at you David but the writer. 

Jae  Sinnett  


 
Thanks Jae. I wasn't crazy about those definitions either, but I thought  the 
sources were interesting. I've actually been a little surprised by  the 
"official" definitions I've seen because my experience has been that  Nu-Jazz is a 
pretty loose term, being applied liberally to newer groups that  combine jazz 
with other musical elements like rock, electronica, funk, and is  usually all 
instrumental, pretty hip, and sounding partly inspired by, but  different than 
modern jazz. Their fans tend to be on the younger side...some  otherwise like 
standard jazz, some otherwise lean toward rock. Whatever  "nu-jazz" is, it 
does have some relation to more regular(?) jazz, so I think it  would be 
inevitable that at least some nu-jazz fans would also be open  to...uh, jazz. I know 
that when I was a teen that when I heard Weather Report,  Bill Bruford, and 
Jean-Luc Ponty (whatever music they play), I went and  listened to the groups 
that they said inspired them. For me, that opened the  door to jazz as a whole.
-david
 



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