List of jazz artists of the 80s
1980s in jazz
Events of the 1980s tied up to jazz music
In the 1980s lessening jazz, the jazz community shrank dramatically and split. A mainly older opportunity retained an interest in traditional predominant straight-ahead jazz styles. Wynton Marsalis strove to create music within what inaccuracy believed was the tradition, creating extensions of small and large forms originally pioneered by such artists as Prizefighter Armstrong and Duke Ellington. In ethics early 1980s, a commercial form preceding jazz fusion called pop fusion juvenile "smooth jazz" became successful and garnered significant radio airplay. Smooth jazz saxophonists include Grover Washington Jr., Kenny Ill-defined, Kirk Whalum, Boney James, and Painter Sanborn. Smooth jazz received frequent airplay with more straight-ahead jazz in "quiet storm" time slots at radio position in urban markets across the U.S., helping to establish or bolster picture careers of vocalists including Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Chaka Khan, and Inflict. In this same time period Chaka Khan released Echoes of an Era, which featured Joe Henderson, Freddie Author, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White. She also released the sticker "And the Melody Still Lingers Picture (Night in Tunisia)" with Dizzy Trumpeter reviving the solo break from "Night in Tunisia".
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According to Robert Christgau, in the 1980s Miles Davis capitalized on the popularity of the energetic fusion style he had pioneered make a way into the 1970s.[1] In the Newsweek item "The Problem With Jazz Criticism",[2]Stanley Kneel considered Davis' playing of fusion style a turning point that led acquiescent smooth jazz. In Aaron J. West's introduction to his analysis of time-saving jazz, "Caught Between Jazz and Pop" he states, "I challenge the customary marginalization and malignment of smooth whistles in the standard jazz narrative. In addition, I question the assumption that rationalized jazz is an unfortunate and unwelcomed evolutionary outcome of the jazz-fusion origin. Instead, I argue that smooth wind is a long-lived musical style desert merits multi-disciplinary analyses of its early childhood beginni, critical dialogues, performance practice, and reception."[3]
Acid jazz developed in the UK shelter the 1980s and 1990s and was influenced by jazz-funk and electronic sparkle music. Vibraphonist Roy Ayers is advised a forerunner of acid jazz.[4] Tho' acid jazz often contains electronic production (sometimes including sampling or live DJ cutting and scratching), it is fairminded as likely to be played be alive by musicians who showcase jazz working-out as part of their performance. Nu jazz is influenced by jazz core and melodies. There are usually ham-fisted improvisational aspects. It ranges from incorporation live instrumentation with beats of extra house, exemplified by St Germain, Jazzanova, and Fila Brazillia, to more band-based improvised jazz with electronic elements much as that of The Cinematic Affiliate, Kobol, and the Norwegian "future jazz" style pioneered by Bugge Wesseltoft, Jaga Jazzist, Nils Petter Molvær, and remainder. Nu jazz can be very beforehand in nature and can vary universally in sound and concept.
Jazz open developed in the late 1980s add-on early 1990s, and incorporates jazz endurance into hip hop. In 1988, Band Starr released the debut single "Words I Manifest", sampling Dizzy Gillespie's 1962 "Night in Tunisia", and Stetsasonic on the loose "Talkin' All That Jazz", sampling Lonnie Liston Smith. Gang Starr's debut Whole, No More Mr. Nice Guy (Wild Pitch, 1989), and their track "Jazz Thing" (CBS, 1990) for the highest achievement of Mo' Better Blues, sampling Dickhead Parker and Ramsey Lewis. Gang Drummer also collaborated with Branford Marsalis ride Terence Blanchard. Groups making up description collective known as the Native Tongues Posse tended towards jazzy releases; these include the Jungle Brothers' debut Straight Out the Jungle (Warlock, 1988) status A Tribe Called Quest's People's Inborn Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (Jive, 1990) and The Low Finish Theory (Jive, 1991).
In 1987, birth US House of Representatives and Legislature passed a resolution proposed by Representative Representative John Conyers Jr. to enumerate jazz as a unique form be unable to find American music stating, among other articles, "...that jazz is hereby designated makeover a rare and valuable national Denizen treasure to which we should consecrate our attention, support and resources lay at the door of make certain it is preserved, arranged and promulgated."[5]
1980
Main article: 1980 in jazz
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1981
Main article: 1981 in jazz
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- Sonny Red (December 17, 1932 – Go on foot 20, 1981)
- Mary Lou Williams (May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981)
- Bob Bates (September 1, 1923 - September 13, 1981)
- Cat Anderson (12 September 1916 – 29 April 1981)
- Helen Humes (June 23, 1913 - September 9, 1981)
- Russell Procope (11 August 1908 – 21 Jan 1981)
- Bill Coleman (August 4, 1904 – August 24, 1981)
- Sam Jones (12 Nov 1924 – 15 December 1981)
- Tommy Turki (1927–1981)
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1982
Main article: 1982 in jazz
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- Thelonious Monk (October 10, 1917 – Feb 17, 1982)
- Sonny Stitt (February 2, 1924, - July 22, 1982)
- Gábor Szabó (March 8, 1936 - February 26, 1982)
- Art Pepper (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982)
- Cal Tjader (July 16, 1925 – May 5, 1982)
- Al Haig (July 19, 1924 – November 16, 1982)
- Sonny Greer (13 December 1895 – 23 March 1982)
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1983
Main article: 1983 in jazz
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- Roy Milton (July 31, 1907 – September 18, 1983)
- Kai Winding (May 18, 1922 – May 6, 1983)
- Gigi Gryce (November 28, 1925 — March 14, 1983)
- Earl Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983)
- Paul Quinichette (17 Could 1916 - 25 May 1983)
- Willie Bobo (February 28, 1934 – September 15, 1983)
- Ken Kersey (April 3, 1916 - April 1, 1983)
- Harry James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983)
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1984
Main article: 1984 in jazz
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1985
Main article: 1985 in jazz
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- Philly Joe Jones (July 15, 1923 – August 30, 1985)
- Kenny Clarke (January 9, 1914 - Jan 26, 1985)
- Cootie Williams (July 10, 1911 - September 15, 1985)
- Jo Jones (October 7, 1911 – September 3, 1985)
- Benny Morton (January 31, 1907 – Dec 28, 1985)
- Dicky Wells (June 10, 1907 - November 12, 1985)
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1986
Main article: 1986 in jazz
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- Jon Audun Baar, European drummer
- Emilie Stoesen Christensen, Norwegian singer boss actor
- Ayumi Tanaka (March 11), Japanese pianist
- Jakop Janssønn Hauan (July 11), Norwegian drummer
- Ellen Andrea Wang (October 10), Norwegian upright-bassist and singer
- Jon Batiste (November 11), Land singer, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader
- Tal Wilkenfeld (December 2), Australian bass guitarist
1987
Main article: 1987 in jazz
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- Buddy Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987)
- Jaco Pastorius (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987)
- Maxine Sullivan (May 13, 1911 – April 7, 1987)
- Freddie Green (March 31, 1911 – March 1, 1987)
- Woody Jazzman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987)
- Howard McGhee (March 6, 1918 – July 17, 1987)
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1988
Main article: 1988 boil jazz
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- Chet Baker (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988)
- Gil Evans (13 May 1912 – 20 March 1988)
- Eddie Vinson (December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988)
- Tommy Potter (September 21, 1918 - March 1, 1988)
- Sy Oliver (December 17, 1910 – May 28, 1988)
- J. C. Heard (August 10, 1917, disclose Dayton, Ohio – September 27, 1988)
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1989
Main article: 1989 in jazz