New Jack Swing
New Jack Swing is the name of a music genre that originated in the mid to late 1980s. Based on the sound of Janet Jackson's Control album , it was particularly shaped by the work of producer Teddy Riley . The term itself was coined in 1987 by journalist and director Barry Michael Cooper in an article in the Village Voice . New Jack Swing combines urban music genres R & B and hip-hop through the use of simple keyboard melodies, samples from the radio -music (especially James Brown ) and grooving , very percussive drum machine -Beats, by the syncopated rhythms of Swing influenced are. Especially at the beginning of the 1990s, music had a major influence on the mainstream .
The best-selling releases of the genre were the albums Don't Be Cruel (1988) by Bobby Brown and Dangerous (1991) by Michael Jackson . Teddy Riley was instrumental in both albums, as well as the soundtrack of the film New Jack City (1991), which brought the New Jack Swing to the cinema. Alongside Riley, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds was the most important producer in the genre.
In addition to Janet Jackson and Bobby Brown, other important New Jack swing artists were Keith Sweat , Boyz II Men , Tony! Toni! Toné! , En Vogue , Kool Moe Dee , Bell Biv DeVoe and Heavy D. Later other pop stars also used elements of the New Jack Swing, such as Whitney Houston ("I'm Your Baby Tonight"), Madonna ("Erotica") and Kylie Minogue ("Word Is Out").
Web links
- New Jack Swing at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael A. Gonzales: Baltimore Orator: Barry Michael Cooper. April 11, 2007, accessed March 31, 2010 .
- ↑ Nelson George : XXX - Three decades of hip hop . orange-press, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-936086-03-6 , p. 155 u. 157 .