jazz rock & jazz fusion
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Jazz Rock & Jazz Fusion
Rock Has Similar Background as Jazz
Early Rock Often Had Jazz Sax Solos
R&B Continued to Have Horn Sections
The Change: Musicians Who Played in Band Brought Those Skills To Rock Bands
Jazz On The Charts
Take Five (1959) Dave Brubeck Hit 1961
Cast Your Fate To The Wind (1963) Vince Guaraldi (Charlie Brown music)
Girl From Ipenema (1964) Getz & Gilberto
Mercy Mercy Mercy (1966) Cannonball Adderley
Jazz Rock Beginnings
Two Bands, Same Producer James Guercio
He Produced the Buckinghams (Kind of A Drag), Used Studio Horn Players
Produced Chicago & Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat, and Tears.1 (BS&T)
The Blues Project (1965-67), Blues, Folk, Bluegrass Musicians
Al Cooper & Steve Katz Former BS&T (4 Horns)
1st Album, Critically Acclaimed, No Radio Hits
Blood, Sweat, & Tears.2
Musical Direction Changed, Cooper Leaves, Records With American Super Group & Discovers Lynyrd Skynyrd
David Clayton-Thomas, Lead Singer
James Guercio, Produced Them While Working With Chicago
Many Radio Hits
Chicago Transit Authority
Began as The Big Thing, Guercio Changed Their Name
The Real CTA Threatened Lawsuit Name Changed to Chicago
Guercio Produced Them Through Chicago XI
1st Album Played on FM, not AM Radio
2nd Album Had Several AM Hits
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Chicago Blues by European-Americans
Paul Butterfield – Harmonica
Mike Bloomfield – Guitar
Played 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Backed Dylan w/Electric Instruments
Electric Flag: Mike Bloomfield (Paul Butterfield Blues Band) & Buddy Miles
Other Jazz-Rock Bands
Ides of March: Vehicle
Chase: Get It On
Cold Blood
Ten Wheel Drive
Today: Tower of Power
Soul Jazz/Funky Jazz
Branch of Hard Bop Featured Blues & Gospel Roots
Horace Silver: 1950s Pianist
Herbie Hancock (piano): Watermelon Man
Cannonball Adderly (sax): Mercy Mercy Mercy
Jimmie Smith (organ)
Jazz Fusion: Miles Davis
Combining Rock w/Jazz Was Not A Popular Idea Until Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Recording (1969)
Revolutionary in 4 Jazz Styles!
Davis (Trumpet) Played with Parker in Early 1950s
Fusion: Miles
Birth of The Cool (1949-50) Initiated the Cool School
Mid-50s 1st Quintet, Hard Bop
Kind of Blue (1959) Introduced Modal Jazz
1960s, 2nd Quintet
1969, Bitches Brew: Fusion Begins (Clive Davis Columbia Suggested He Tap The Jazz-Rock Market)
Miles Inspired Fusion
Mahavishnu Orchestra (1971) John McLaughlin
A Fusion of Music of India & Progressive Rock
Miles Inspired Fusion
Chick Corea & Return to Forever (1971)
Originally a Fusion of Jazz and Brazilian Music; Later (1973) More Progressive Rock
Continues To Be A Major Influence
Miles Inspired Fusion
Herbie Hancock & Headhunters (1973) Inspired by Sly & the Family Stone He Explored Funk.
Chameleon: Synthesizer Funk, Big Hit
1983 Rockit Made the R&B Charts and MTV
Miles Inspired Fusion
Weather Report (1970): Wayne Shorter & Joe Zawinul
Began As Free Form Avant-Garde Jazz Gradually Shifted Toward More Danceable (Commercial) Rhythm
Fusion Beyond Miles
Soul/Funky Jazz Developed Became Popular on Jazz Radio
CTI Records Released Cleanly Recorded Lite Jazz
George Benson: Guitar Vocals
Hubert Laws: Flute