Rare groove
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Wikipedia
Featured:  |
Rare groove is an umbrella term that refers to relatively obscure and hard-to-find jazz-funk, funk and soul, soul jazz and jazz-fusion tracks from the 1970s.Originally coined by Kiss FM DJ Norman Jay in 1985 through his show The Original Rare Groove Show, 'rare groove' tracks have been influential on the musical genres of hip hop, techno, house, breakbeat, jungle and others.
[edit]
Representative artists
- Eighties Ladies
- The Poets of Rhythm
- Bobbi Humphrey
- Donald Byrd
- Harvey Mason
- The Headhunters
- The Mizell Brothers
- Justo Almario
- Cloud One
- Skull Snaps
- The Universal Robot Band
- Bumblebee Unlimited
- Roy Ayers
[edit]
Better known artists in a similar vein
[edit]
1980s rare groove like artists
- ESG (Emerald Sapphire and Gold)
- Bush Tetras
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Rare groove" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on original research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
