Pop jazz

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Pop jazz is a term for jazz close to pop music, which is used in particular to market this music.

The music genres jazz and pop normally form a pair of opposites, because pop music is usually very text or song-related, jazz music, on the other hand, is very instrument-related, even the voice is sometimes used instrumentally, especially in scat singing. When interpreters call their music pop jazz (or jazz pop), then jazz usually contributes the jazz-typical harmonies and instruments and pop the more catchy melodies.

Attempts at such a merging of pop and jazz could already be observed in the 1960s. Particularly successful rapprochements have taken place since the turn of the millennium, when singers like Norah Jones in particular , but also some singers like Jamie Cullum , were marketed as a kind of “mass phenomenon” in jazz and pop jazz. But not only female singers stand for this successful pop jazz wave, well-known jazz musicians like Nils Landgren also emerged with pop projects like his ABBA album and his support for easy-listening jazz singers like Viktoria Tolstoy .

Secondary literature

  • Joachim E. Berendt: The jazz book. From New Orleans to the 21st century . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-10-003802-9

Remarks

  1. ↑ cf. Veit Bremme, in: W. Knauer (Ed.), Jazz goes Pop goes Jazz. Jazz and its split relationship to popular music , Hofheim 2006, ISBN 3-936000-03-4
  2. ↑ cf. Karl Lippegaus , in JE Berendt (Ed.), The Story of Jazz. From New Orleans to rock jazz . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1991, ISBN 3-499-17121-X
  3. ↑ cf. Andreas Felber , in: W. Knauer (Ed.), Jazz goes Pop goes Jazz .

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