Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz

Movement · 1988 → · London, New York · Hybrids and world

Acid Jazz Records (London, 1988), Talkin' Loud (1990), The Low End Theory (1991), Us3 "Cantaloop" (1993). Blue Note samples and club groove. Arrows going both ways with hip-hop.

Where it comes from

• Soul jazz, boogaloo
• Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk
• Dutch jazz

What it gave rise to or influenced

• Renaissances (Los Angeles, London)

Artists

• Herbie Hancock (1940, keyboards)
• Robert Glasper (1978, piano, keyboards)
• Erik Truffaz (1960, trumpet)
• St Germain (1969, DJ, production)
• Guru (1961–2010, rap)
• Digable Planets (rap (trio))
• Makaya McCraven (1983, drums, production)
• Bugge Wesseltoft (1964, piano, keyboards, electronics)
• Gotan Project (band (electronic production, guitar, tango))
• Alfa Mist (piano, keyboards, production)
• Léon Phal (saxophone, composition, production)
• Benjamin Herman (1968, alto saxophone, C melody saxophone, flute)
• New Cool Collective (big band, acid jazz, latin, afrobeat)
• Wouter Hamel (1977, vocals, guitar)

Tracks to start with

• Jazz Thing — Gang Starr (1990)
• Jazz (We've Got) — A Tribe Called Quest (1991)
• Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) — Us3 (1993)
• Rockit — Herbie Hancock (1983)
• Rose Rouge — St Germain (2000)
• Loungin' — Guru feat. Donald Byrd (1993)
• Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) — Digable Planets (1992)
• Black Radio — Robert Glasper Experiment feat. Yasiin Bey (2012)
• In These Times — Makaya McCraven (2022)
• Hardgroove — The RH Factor (Roy Hargrove) (2003)
• New Conception of Jazz — Bugge Wesseltoft (1996)
• Santa María (del Buen Ayre) — Gotan Project (2001)
• Electric Relaxation — Médéric Collignon (2026)
• Retainer — Alfa Mist (2019)
• Pleine Forêt — Léon Phal (2026)
• UK Rain — Léon Phal (2026)
• Jam — New Cool Collective & Tony Allen (2006)
• Yunikon — New Cool Collective (2021)
• Breezy — Wouter Hamel (2007)
• Details — Wouter Hamel (2007)

Sources

• EN : Acid jazz

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