Jazz Influenced Rock Music Of the Late 1960's and 1970's

When I took up guitar in high school child in 1968, rock music has entered a golden age. Certainly the influence of Chicago-style blues was huge, and was for several years [especially in the UK], but rock musicians were looking for ideas and inspiration from other genres as well, including classic [Moody Blues, Procol Harum] country / Western [Byrds], Afro / Cuban [Santana] and Indian [experiments of the Beatles and others]. However, regardless of the blues, it was influenced by jazz, which are the biggest impression on music and musicians from the late '60s and early '70 'S.

Instrumental Performance becomes the focus of interest for many in this razdoblju.Virtuoznost players such as Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, and Jack Casady was recognized by the audience applauded, and rock musicians began to find and listen to a new hero among the jazz elite players. The long, improvised instrumental jams have become the norm in live rock shows. Jazz tunes were covered by rock bands [Tito Puente's Oye Como Va by Santana, Roland Kirk Serenade for a Cuckoo Jethro Tull]. IIm7-V7 chord progression, the backbone of jazz harmony, began to appear in the pop tunes. Brass rock band Chicago Transit Authority [Chicago soon to be] the blood, sweat and tears have written jazz-rock songs and rock songs, but the arrangement of the jazz way, full of bop solos, odd time signatures, chord changes and sophisticated swing groove .

Jazz players take on rock and pop sessions for years as an anonymous session players, not the jazz sensibilities, but their reading skills. But in the late '60s and '70s jazz musicians began to appear in the rock record as a featured player. Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album acclaimed bassist Richard Davis and drummer Connie Kay [Modern Jazz Quartet fame], John Payne on a reed, and Walter Smith, Jr. to vibration. Phil Woods soloed the steely Dan Dr. Wu and Billy Joel is the only way. Yusef Lateef played on the Leon Redbone Double Time, and Charles Lloyd at the door Verdillac. And Joni Mitchell are staff from the time report 2 albums in the late '70s, including her collaboration with Charles Mingus in '79.

Mitchell was the only one of the few rock artists whose music reflects the influence of jazz. Carlos Santana recorded a large hotel in 1972, fusion jazz, salsa and rock. He has recently become enamored of the music John Coltrane and Miles Davis and his new musical express an interest. He has worked on projects with John McLaughlin and Alice Coltrane [which included Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland]. The release in 1975 from Blow By Blow Jeff Beck signaled the transformation of rock guitar icon, jazz fusion innovator. And, of course, was Walter Becker and Donald Fagan and steely Dan, who confessed jazz influences from the beginning of his recording career. And with each successive album, steely Dan players included a number of serious jazz player, contributing not only in the paper, but the arrangements and solos, as well.