Soul-Jazz

Soul - Jazz is a style of jazz and a development of hard bop, which emerged in the early 1960s and is often regarded as a subspecies of the radio. Blues, gospel and soul elements play a major role. Soul Jazz is usually characterized by relatively simple rhythms and catchy melodies that are often played at a moderate or even slow tempo. The Soul - Jazz gained great popularity in the 1960s. Outstanding examples of this are the tracks " Mercy, Mercy, Mercy " by Joe Zawinul, played by Cannonball Adderley Quintet, and Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder, both of which were also chart hits.

As the main representative of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet Gene Ammons, Donald Byrd, Lou Donaldson, the Ramsey Lewis Trio, Les McCann, Horace Silver and Jimmy Smith. Apply with Nat Adderley, Even decades after the heyday of soul-jazz access many jazz musicians at back to that style. Examples are the guitarist John Scofield and Charlie Hunter, although they can not be counted in the strict sense of the protagonists of this style, but have their game significant influences of soul-jazz. Also, the acid jazz of the 1990s refers - in his " jazzy " moments - much to the soul-jazz.

Musician

  • Jazz style
  • Soul
  • Fusion
Gospel music Jimmy Smith (musician) Willis Jackson (saxophonist) Lonnie Smith (jazz musician)
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