Ska jazz

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Ska jazz is a music genre derived by fusing the melodic content of jazz with the rhythmic and harmonic content of early Jamaican Music introduced by the "Fathers of Ska" in the late 1950s. The ska-jazz movement began during the 1990s in New York and London, where pioneering avant-garde jazz and reggae musicians pushed the boundaries of reggae music. They were combining traditions with modern tendencies, using the reggae beat along with high improvisation and jazz harmonies, primarily by horns and percussion.

Origins

The term Ska-Jazz was coined by Rock Steady Freddie (Fred Reiter) of the New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble in 1994. Ska jazz is sometimes considered a

, thus giving the music a different feel than straight jazz.

Ever since its birth in the late 1950s, ska has been a genre marked by physical and cultural diasporas and an openness to borrowing from outside its origins.^[1] The history of ska and jazz combined travels across national borders and integrates with other musical styles, making it one of the most hybrid, transnational forms of postwar popular music.^[2]

Early Jamaican Jazzmen

• The Skatalites
• Tommy McCook
• Roland Alphonso
• Don Drummond
• Ernest Ranglin
• Jackie Mittoo

Notable artists

• Jazz Jamaica
• The Orobians
• Victor Rice
• Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation
• Saint Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review
• David Hillyard And The Rocksteady Seven
• The Cat Empire
• New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble
• Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
• Melbourne Ska Orchestra
• Quito Ska Jazz
• Kingston Rudieska
• Montréal Ska-Jazz Ensemble
• The Articles
• Satelite Kingston

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