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Originally Posted by Janszoon
There's a jazz influence in some hardcore but as a genre it's definitely more rock based than jazz based. The instrumentation, song structures, song lengths, vocals, etc. all come from the rock family tree.
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Always felt like Bad Brains, and certain Black Flag albums (Specifically
My War and
In My Head) had a pretty heavy jazz presence. I agree that it's more of a rock based genre, just noted that whole Bad Brains thing about being a jazz fusion band, and how it obviously influenced Black Flag, who were huge BB fans. Agree that rock is the more dominant influence on hardcore, but one could argue that the "sped up" nature of the songs is a jazz influence, since jazz is pretty much the blues, but sped up. You could even make the argument that since rock was influenced by jazz and blues music, then nearly all punk rock has a jazz influence. I mean, you think about it, jazz was the first type of music to emphasize rhythm back in the 20s and 30s, and a lot of the music we listen to today has that.