What’s Hot and What’s Not in New Jazz Sounds
Jazz is a constantly evolving musical style. It is fair to say that no genre of music has adapted and changed over the last 80 years like jazz has. From Dixieland all the way up to fusion the gap of styles within jazz is vast and expansive. This is probably because the musicians are so talented and creative. where is jazz headed in the future? Well, one place you can always look to predict what jazz will be doing is to look at the popular music. Jazz is usually influenced by the popular music of the time in some way.
Jazz has definitely been taking on more and more of an electronic influence in recent years. Some purists frown at this but jazz has always been a musical style to take chances and develop. Even those artist that they say were jazz musicians were innovators of some kind in their own time. More and more jazz artists will be incorporating DJ’s and other electronic musicians into their music. Their is also a lot more of a funk groove element to jazz today and that will probably be developed even more in to the future as well. Jazz is an ever evolving art form and it will interesting to see how it develops over time.