New Media II: research

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Research, youTube vid!

This is the youTube video I'd like to feature in my recreation of the jazz site.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Logo and Colors

Here is our logo! I really like it because it's even to read even with the bit of erosion feel the font has to it.

The color choices are going to be: monochrome and blue. This is taking from the theme of what most jazz posters were like. So the colors will be classic, but the design of the site will be more modern, going in the 'acid' part of it (the addition of hip hop / electronic / etc)

THE SITE SHALL BE CALLED...

AJ : Acid Jazz

The site I'm redesigning is Jazz.com.

The new site will be called AJ (Acid Jazz). It will be a forum for those interested in all things acid, including facts on copyrighting, new technology, where to get the best records, and more!

Here is some info on Acid jazz (also known as groove jazz in USA) is a musical genre that combines elements ofjazz, funk and hip-hop^[1], particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of acid jazz.^[2] Acid jazz has also experienced minor influences from soul music, house music anddisco.

While acid jazz often contains various types of electronic composition (sometimes including sampling or live DJ cutting and scratching), it is just as likely to be played live by musicians, who often showcase jazz interpretation as part of their performance. The compositions of groups such as Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies and Incognito often feature chord structures usually associated with jazz music. The Heavies in particular were known in their early years for beginning their songs as catchy pop and rapidly steering them into jazz territory before "resolving" the composition and thus not losing any pop listeners but successfully "exposing" them to jazz elements in "baby steps".

The acid jazz "movement" is also seen as a "revival" of jazz-funk or jazz fusion or soul jazz by leading DJs such as Norman Jay or Gilles Peterson or Patrick Forge, also known as "rare groove crate diggers" or "Cataroos".

THANK YOU WIKIPEDIA!