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History of Jazz: Recent Developments in Jazz

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Since the advent of Jazz Fusion, the stylistic diversity of jazz has shown no sign of diminishing, absorbing influences from such disparate sources as world music and avant garde classical music, including African rhythm and traditional structure, serialism and the extensive use of chromatic scale, by such musicians as Ornette Coleman or John Zorn.

However, jazz's audience has shrunk dramatically and split somewhat, with a mainly older audience retaining an interest in traditional, "straight-ahead" jazz styles, a small core of practitioners and fans interested in highly experimental modern jazz, and a constantly changing group of musicians fusing jazz idioms with contemporary popular music genres, forming styles like acid jazz, which contains elements of 1970s disco, acid swing which combines 1940s style big-band sounds with faster, more aggressive rock-influenced drums and electric guitar.

Starting in the 1970s with artists like Keith Jarrett, the Pat Metheny Group, Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner and Eberhard Weber, the ECM record label established a new chamber-music aesthetics, preferably on acoustic instruments, heading to a world-music concept, also sometimes referred to as the European leg of jazz.

Jazz enjoyed a resurgence in the 1980s with bands like Pigbag and Curiosity Killed the Cat achieving chart hits in Britain. Sade Adu became the definitive voice of smooth jazz.

In the 2000s we have seen "jazz" hit the pop charts with artists like Diana Krall and Norah Jones. These artists are light on the improvisation, a key characteristic of jazz. However, their instrumentation and rhythms are similar to other jazz music, and the label has stuck.
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also in 'History of Jazz':-
Jazz Roots | Early 20th Century Jazz | Jazz in 1920s to 1950s | Development of Bebop | Latin Jazz | Jazz Fusion

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blue notes | syncopation | swing | call and response | polyrhythms
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