Funk vs Jazz

[Gps]

Because of my latest attempt at making music I started to wonder.

I am working on a house track, and one part at least to me sounds a bit jazzy.

This got me thinking enough to google the difference between Funk (house) and Jazz.

Found this: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-basi ... funk-music

Both styles have similar complexities. Syncopation is often vital to both.

There's a lot of jazz that has more harmonic complexity than funk, with more chord changes, and brief key modulation. Traditional funk tends to vamp on one chord for long periods, maybe even for the whole song. In this w as you, funk is very similar to the modal jazz of Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue, John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things, George Russell’s concepts, etc. In fact, one of the songs considered to be the beginning of true funk is James Brown’s Cold Sweat, which was patterned after Miles’ So What.

Interesting, and this explains it for me. Syncopation !

Next track is not jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk0WRHV_vt8
This is funk, but more going the real jazz road, were house is repeating 1 loop over and over and over.
If I get it right, the drums in that track, and repeating some parts, make it funk, and not jazz.

When he mentioned James Brown I had to do more searching
James Brown - Cold Sweat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bztE5IbQOo

Miles Davis - So what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c



There is I think allot of jazz I don't like, I suspect the fact that I totally loose count is causing this.
There are excepting to everything though.
Love this one, although its not 4/4 there is at least some kind of loop for me to hold on too.
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs

[musikbear]

google the difference between Funk (house) and Jazz.

One really important difference is that funk is dancemusic, jazz is often performance, where the ordinance sits and zip coffee or similar, but stronger :P
Jazz can also be all over the place -Listen to Thelonious Monk and his piano stuff, and ..idk
You also have the avantgarde-electronica, where torture instruments like the theramine and found sounds are performed in 'lovely' disharmony -But the critics likes it...

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

An absolute masterpiece<3
It different in as much as the time-signature was 5/4, and thats why it got that name
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-dav ... /take-five

[brandystarbrite]

What I have noticed over the years:

Jazz normally seems to have a very high pitched, swaying, exciting kinda sound vibe to it. But there are some, that have a slow steady calming sound to them.

Funk in some of cases, seems to have a more closed, warm homey street style sound to it. With a low, down sounding bass, that is sometimes very present, and not hidden in the background. And of course, the heavy black styled singing and chanting, that is present in funk tunes, that have singing/singers.

[sr3323]

As someone who makes jazz in LMMS, Jazz is more focused on improvisation. Also, Jazz has many more styles (fusion, bossa nova, swing, bebop, modal, etc.).

[brandystarbrite]

Good point.