GENRE

Jazz House Artists

Four-on-the-floor drums support sampled jazz chords, upright bass lines, horn snippets, and loose, soulful piano improvisation.

47 Jazz House artists · 139 releases in the last 6 months · Top labels: Toy Tonics, Mood Funk Records, ArtFunk Records

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Artists

Barry Can't Swim photo
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St Germain
Parlophone (France) · All Day I Dream

About Jazz House

Within house sets, jazz house provides a looser, more musical stretch of the mix, pairing steady dancefloor drums with jazz-derived harmony, piano, bass, horns, or sampled passages. Its groove stays anchored to house’s four-on-the-floor pulse, but the feel can be warmer and more syncopated than straight house.

Compared with deep house, it places more emphasis on improvisatory colour and recognisably jazz-inflected instrumental detail. It also differs from disco house and nu disco by drawing less from glittering disco arrangements and more from smoky chords, broken phrasing, and live-sounding texture. The result can be soulful, playful, or understated without losing the function of a club track.

Jazz House at a glance

Descriptorswarm, soulful, groove-driven, jazzy, danceable
Characteristicsfour-on-the-floor house rhythms, jazz samples and live instrumentation, syncopated basslines, piano chords and horn phrases
Key instrumentsdrum machine, sampler, synthesizer, piano, saxophone
Tempo120–125 BPM
OriginUnited States and United Kingdom, early 1990s

Top Labels

Toy TonicsMood Funk RecordsArtFunk RecordsDiscoweeyMUJAPina Colada RecordsAll My ThoughtsCosmoFluxDefected RecordsRAP JACK MUSIC

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Common questions

What is Jazz House?

Jazz House is a music genre defined by four-on-the-floor house rhythms, jazz samples and live instrumentation, syncopated basslines, and piano chords and horn phrases. Four-on-the-floor drums support sampled jazz chords, upright bass lines, horn snippets, and loose, soulful piano improvisation.

What BPM is Jazz House?

Jazz House tracks typically run between 120 and 125 BPM.

Where did Jazz House come from?

Jazz House originated in United States and United Kingdom, early 1990s.

What instruments are used in Jazz House?

Jazz House is built mainly from drum machine, sampler, synthesizer, piano, and saxophone.

Which Jazz House artists are most popular?

Barry Can't Swim, Folamour, St Germain, Chaos In The CBD, and Coeo are the highest ranked by Spotify popularity of the 47 Jazz House artists on this page.

Which labels release Jazz House?

Toy Tonics, Mood Funk Records, ArtFunk Records, Discoweey, and MUJA have put out the most Jazz House records in the Tracknack catalogue.

What genres are similar to Jazz House?

Artists tagged Jazz House are most often also tagged House, Deep House, Lo-Fi House, Electronic, and Disco House.

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