Mini-jazz
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Mini-jazz is a type of jazz music characterized by swing dancing and jazzy melodies with influences from rock music
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yeye bands of the early 1960s) played kompa featuring paired electric guitars, electric bass, drumset and other percussion, often with a saxophone. This trend, launched by Shleu Shleu after 1965, came to include a number of groups from Port-au-Prince
neighbourhoods, especially the suburb of Pétion-Ville. Tabou Combo, Les Difficiles, Les Loups Noirs, Frères DéJean, Les Fantaisistes de Carrefour, Bossa Combo and Les Ambassadeurs (among others) formed the core of this middle-class popular music movement.
In the mid-1970s, when the sounds of the antillian bands such as les Aiglons
, Grammacks
, Les Vikings and later kassav in the 80's started hitting the airwave and the haitian youth loved it. It was a serious call for the mini-jazz bands. As a result, Many mini-jazz started to do a make-over by adding full-horn section
and synthesizers. Predominant in Haiti in the 1970s, its popularity has waned since the 1990s. Toto Laraque is a major artist in the mini-jazz era. Mini-jazz typically includes a small jazz orchestra ensemble.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
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History
The Mini jazz movement started in the mid-1960s, small bands called mini-djaz (which grew out of Haiti’s light rock and rollRock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
yeye bands of the early 1960s) played kompa featuring paired electric guitars, electric bass, drumset and other percussion, often with a saxophone. This trend, launched by Shleu Shleu after 1965, came to include a number of groups from Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
neighbourhoods, especially the suburb of Pétion-Ville. Tabou Combo, Les Difficiles, Les Loups Noirs, Frères DéJean, Les Fantaisistes de Carrefour, Bossa Combo and Les Ambassadeurs (among others) formed the core of this middle-class popular music movement.
In the mid-1970s, when the sounds of the antillian bands such as les Aiglons
Les Aiglons
Les Aiglons were a 1970s Guadeloupean cadence band. They were the best selling Antillean band with their record Cuisse-La, until the release of Kassav's Zouk-La Se Sel Medikamen Nou Ni...
, Grammacks
Grammacks
Grammacks was a 1970s musical group from Dominica.-Biography:The band was started in a village on the west coast called St. Joseph. The band was formed by Anthony "Curvin" Serrant, guitar Anthony "Tepam" George, bass Elon "Bollo" Rodniy drums and keyboard player McDonald "Mckie" Prosper. Jeff...
, Les Vikings and later kassav in the 80's started hitting the airwave and the haitian youth loved it. It was a serious call for the mini-jazz bands. As a result, Many mini-jazz started to do a make-over by adding full-horn section
Horn section
In music, a horn section can refer to several groups of musicians. It can refer to the musicians in a symphony orchestra who play the horn . In a British-style brass band it refers to the tenor horn players. In popular music, it can also refer to a small group of wind instrumentalists who augment a...
and synthesizers. Predominant in Haiti in the 1970s, its popularity has waned since the 1990s. Toto Laraque is a major artist in the mini-jazz era. Mini-jazz typically includes a small jazz orchestra ensemble.