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Neotraditional jazz (Young Lions)

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Neotraditional jazz (Young Lions) · In the early 1980s a generation of young musicians emerged who wanted to return to acoustic jazz, with swing, blues and hard bop as a basis. The trumpeter Wynton Marsalis of New Orleans played with Art Blakey in 1980 and then signed with Columbia. In 1984 he won Grammys in both jazz and classical music. Together with his brother, the saxophonist Branford Marsalis, and musicians such as Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Roy Hargrove and Joshua Redman, he was counted among the Young Lions: well-dressed young players who took the tradition seriously. Record companies actively looked for such talent. From 1987 Marsalis worked on the jazz programme of Lincoln Center in New York. Critics accused the movement of fixing the history of jazz as a set canon and of excluding fusion and free jazz.

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Listening tip. Listen to the swing of the rhythm section: the language of the 1950s, played by twenty-somethings.

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