Soul jazz

Infobox Music genre
name=Soul jazz
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stylistic_origins=hard bop, rhythm and blues, blues, gospel
cultural_origins=1950s
instruments=Hammond organ, piano, saxophone, guitar, double bass, electric bass, drums
popularity=1950s to 1970s
derivatives=
subgenrelist=:Category:Jazz genres
subgenres=Jazz-funk
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Soul jazz was a development of hard bop which incorporated strong influences from blues, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often the organ trio which featured the Hammond organ. Important soul jazz organists included Bill Doggett, Charles Earland, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Les McCann, "Brother" Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Lonnie Smith, Lou Donaldson, Big John Patton, Don Patterson, Reuben Wilson, Jimmy Smith and Johnny Hammond Smith.

Tenor saxophone and guitar were also important in soul jazz; soul jazz tenors include Gene Ammons, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Eddie Harris, Houston Person, and Stanley Turrentine; guitarists include Grant Green and George Benson. Other important contributors were Alto saxophonists Lou Donaldson and Hank Crawford, trumpeter Blue Mitchell, and drummer Idris Muhammed (ne Leo Morris). Unlike hard bop, soul jazz generally emphasized repetitive grooves and melodic hooks, and improvisations were often less complex than in other jazz styles (this is a completely subjective assertion).

Soul jazz was developed in the late 1950s, reaching public awareness with the release of "The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco",Sidran, Ben. [http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/adderley_n.html Jazz Profiles from NPR: Nat Adderley (1931–2000)] NPR. Accessed December 13 2007.] ["See also" Herrmann, Zachary. (April 2 2007) [http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/news/detail.cfm?article=11067 Concord releases Orrin Keepnews Collection] "JazzTimes Magazine". Accessed December 13 2007.] and was perhaps most popular in the mid-to-late 1960s, though many soul jazz performers, and elements of the music, remain popular. Although the term "soul jazz" contains the word "soul," soul jazz is only a distant cousin to Soul music, in that soul developed from gospel and blues rather than from jazz.

Some well-known soul jazz recordings are Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder" (1963), Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island" (1964) (which was popularized further when sampled by US3 on Cantaloop), Horace Silver's "Song for My Father" (1964) (which was musically alluded to by Steely Dan with "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"), Ramsey Lewis's "The In Crowd" (1965), and Cannonball Adderley's "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (1966) (also popularized further when covered as a top 40 pop song by The Buckinghams).

The Soul Jazz vernacular was a major contributer to the evolution of Jazz-Funk in the 1970s.

ee also

*Organ trio, the small jazz ensemble based around the Hammond organ which was popular in the 1950s and 1960s
*List of soul-jazz musicians
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External links

* [http://www.bluejuice.org.au/subpage21.html Ten Essential Jazz Records for Soul Fiends]

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