Electronic Jazz, Part 1: Before the Synthesizer

Jazz that incorporates electronic music of some kind, although common today, had roots in the 1960s. The experiments closely followed the availability of technology for making electronic music. There were essentially three waves. The first experiments, covered in this episode, combined jazz with electronic music on tape. In future episodes, we’ll hear about the second and third waves of electronic jazz—that using electronically modified instruments and then the introduction of the synthesizer as a performance instrument.