New Jack City

New Jack Swing is one born in the 1980s, and it is a hybrid of rhythms and drum machine magic (largely created by SP1200 and Roland 808 machines) that is used as Backbeat of much of what is now Modern R & B music. It combines elements of jazz, pop, hip-hop, funk and R & B.

Combining two styles old and new, sometimes taking the five-part harmonies that made his 1960 Motown pop, new jack swing was largely carried out by 80 and 90 grassroots groups and soloists. These include New Edition, Guy, Keith Sweat, Karyn White, Babyface, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Troop, Ready for the World, Jodeci and former New Edition members who split off into groups and solo artists like Bell Biv Devoe ( BBD), Johnny Gill Ralph Tresvant and Bobby Brown. Some other kind of greatest hits include Brown "Do not Be Cruel," Paula Abdul "(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me" and BBD to "poison".

Although the musical style has been implemented mainly by black musicians, 80 other acts such as Debbie Gibson, Jane Child, Joey Lawrence and New Kids on the Block New Jack Swing employees.

3 Today, new jack swing can be heard in music by acts such as Destiny's Child, Usher, Chris Brown, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake and even Britney Spears, who released a remake of the great success of Brown (and the One of the first No. 1 hits for the New Jack Swing) "My Prerogative".

4 The term "new jack swing" was produced by journalist and filmmaker Barry Michael Cooper, "he later wrote screenplays for" New Jack City "and" Above the Rim ", a story he did for the Village Voice about Teddy Riley in 1988. Producers Riley and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds explains much of the most successful R & B sounds of 90s and are considered the kings of new jack swing. Riley was a member of the group Guy and Edmonds was in the Deele, with the former member of Antonio "LA" Reid, chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group. Riley also co-produced the most successful new album Swing Jack, Michael Jackson released in 1991 "dangerous," which has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.

5 If you want to hear some of the best music of the time new jack swing, see a revival tour next weekend. On Saturday, Bell Biv DeVoe, Mint Condition, ready for the world and the band perform at Jones Convocation Center at Chicago State University, 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $ 37.50 to $ 75. For tickets ticketmaster.com, visit.