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