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• • New jack swing or swingbeat is a spearheaded by and that became popular from the mid-1980s into the early-1990s. Its influence, along with, seeped into and was the definitive sound of the inventive black New York club scene. It fuses the rhythms,, and production techniques of and with the sound of. The new jack swing style developed as many previous music styles did, by combining elements of older styles with newer sensibilities. It used R&B style vocals sung over hip hop and dance-pop style influenced instrumentation. The sound of new jack swing comes from the hip hop 'swing' beats created by, and hardware, which were popular during the, with style singing.
's online dictionary defines new jack swing as 'pop music usually performed by that combines elements of traditional,,,,, and '. Calls it the 'most pop-oriented rhythm-and-blues music since 1960s Motown', since its 'performers were unabashed entertainers, free of artistic pretensions; its songwriters and producers were commercial professionals.' New jack swing did not take up the trend of using sampled beats, and instead created beats using the then-new sampler and the drum machine to lay an 'insistent beat under light melody lines and clearly enunciated vocals.' The Roland TR-808 was sampled to create distinctive, syncopated, rhythms, with its snare sound being especially prominent. The key producers were &,,, and. Contents • • • • • • • History [ ] A collaboration between former members of music group,, and originated the style that came to be known as new jack swing with Jackson's third studio album, (1986).
Jam and Lewis used similar influences with hip-hop influenced drums with smoother R&B stylings in the production. Though Jackson had previously been popular in R&B music, Control established her crossover appeal in the market. Musicologist Richard J. Ripani PhD, author of The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999 (2006), observed that the album was one of the first successful records to influence the rise of new jack swing by creating a fusion of R&B, rap, funk, disco and synthesized percussion.
The new jack swing sound is particularly evident in the second single, '. The success of Control, according to Ripani, bridged the gap between R&B and rap music. He asserts that 'since Jackson's album was released in 1986 and was hugely successful, it is not unreasonable to assume that it had at least some impact on the new jack swing creations of Teddy Riley.'
's early records in the mid-1980s also had new jack elements. The term 'new jack swing' was coined in an October 18, 1987, profile of Teddy Riley. 'New Jack' was a slang term (meaning ~'Johnny-come-lately' ) used in a song by of the, and 'swing' was intended by Cooper to draw an 'analogy between the music played at the of F.
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Scott Fitzgerald's time to the of Teddy Riley's time.' Teddy Riley's original name for the music was 'sophisticated bubblegum music.' The term 'new jack swing' describes the sound produced and by and producer.
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Riley is an American and singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He led the band in the late 1980s and in the 1990s. Riley said, 'I define the term [new jack swing] as a new kid on the block who's swinging it.' The defining feature of Riley's music was the introduction of swingbeats, 'a rhythmic pattern using offbeat accented 16th note triplets.' In an interview with in 2017, Andre Harrell called Riley the inventor of the sound, hailing him 'the king of New Jack Swing, because he invented it.'