▶ Nat Adderley

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Nat Adderley (1960) → Nat Adderley (1960)

1960 — when hard bop sharpened repeating riffs and polyrhythm

Nat Adderley's hard-bop landmark. Sharp jazz syncopation and African polyrhythms show interlocking groove patterns that operate independently of chord progressions.

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The 1960 original recording by Nat Adderley.

Jazz syncopation and polyrhythm became the motion-side source (inputB) of the funk merge.

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Jazz syncopation and polyrhythm became the motion-side source (inputB) of the funk merge.

  • Polyrhythm

    Repeating riffs and crossed rhythms detach from harmonic motion

  • Seed of the merge

    Hard-bop rhythmic discipline becomes funk birth inputB

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