Jazz rock
Marc Alvarado
Le Mot Et Le Reste2019
ISBN 9782361390488
Back cover
In the wake of Woodstock, rock was the future of music. Jazz, for its part, needed a breath of fresh air. In this era of experimentation, it was only natural that these genres should blend to forge new paths, both in America and in Europe. Whilst Miles Davis, John McLaughlin and Chick Corea were moving towards rock, Jimi Hendrix, Chicago and Jack Bruce were gravitating towards jazz. Herbie Hancock turned to funk to join Earth, Wind & Fire, whilst Funkadelic brought out the heavy guitars and Sly Stone played the rock star. These pioneers of innovative genres (jazz rock, jazz soul, jazz funk, funk rock, flamenco rock, samba rock, Latino rock and many more) were fighting against the prevailing conformism within the music industry. Faced with popular success, record labels had to adapt. Jazz Rock, Free Spirits and the Fusion of Genres is the story of a musical genre that reinvented itself in the late 1960s, driven by technological progress.
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