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unusual facts about jazz rock



All Is Yes

All Is Yes is the 2008 (see 2008 in music) debut album by Get the Blessing (known as The Blessing at the time of its release), the jazz rock quartet based in Bristol, England.

Bugs in Amber

Bugs in Amber is the second album by the Bristol based jazz rock quartet Get the Blessing, released in 2009 (see 2008 in music).

Reelin' In the Years

"Reelin' In the Years" (sometimes Reeling In the Years) is a song by jazz rock band Steely Dan, released as the second single from their 1972 album, Can't Buy a Thrill.


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Backatown

Noting the wide appeal of Backatown, Carla Meyer of The Sacramento Bee wrote that it "provides comfort for fans of jazz, rock, pop, funk and however you want to classify James Bond theme music".

Bread and salt

The famous Macedonian and ex-Yugoslav ethno-jazz-rock group of even more famous world music guitarist, Vlatko Stefanovski, had the name "Leb i Sol", which means "bread and salt" and speaks itself about this term of hospitality as something basic and traditional.

Douglass Lubahn

Doug Lubahn eventually created a jazz-rock band named Dreams along with Jeff Kent.

Eddie Harris

From 1970 to 1975, he experimented with new instruments of his own invention (the reed trumpet was a trumpet with a saxophone mouthpiece, the saxobone was a saxophone with a trombone mouthpiece, and the guitorgan was a combination of guitar and organ), with singing the blues, with jazz-rock (he recorded an album with Steve Winwood, Jeff Beck, Albert Lee, Ric Grech, Zoot Money, Ian Paice and other rockers).

Elephant9

Elephant9 (established 2006 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian progressive/neo-psychedelic/jazz-rock trio startet 2006 under the name Storløkken/Eilertsen/Lofthus, for the members of the band, namely Ståle Storløkken (keyboard), Nikolai Eilertsen (bass) and Torstein Lofthus (drums), but changed the name to Elephant9 after the first year together.

Guitar Garden

Guitar Garden's latest album is Secret Space (2006), inspired by the many progressive rock and jazz-rock bands of the 1970s, such as Yes, ELP, and Mahavishnu Orchestra, as well as contemporary acts like The Flower Kings.

John Kasiewicz

John Kasiewicz is an American guitarist and composer, notable as a member of the jazz/rock trio Raisinhill and ambient/folktronic duo 5turns25.

Johns Quijote

Johns Quijote's music style is a smooth jazz, rock, cabaret and Tom Waits-esque music style, often described as 'adult, cultivated, and melancholy'.

Manfred Mann Chapter Three

Although intelligible at a time when artists like Davis himself were crossing over into the rock/funk field and American "jazz-rock" ensembles such as Blood, Sweat and Tears and The Mothers of Invention espoused brass sections and atonality, the formula was limited and the band expensive to maintain, so it was short-lived and disbanded after two albums.

Mogul Thrash

British jazz-rock band Mogul Thrash evolved from James Litherland's Brotherhood, which in addition to guitarist Litherland (an alumnus of Colosseum who formed the group in 1969) also featured guitarist/reedist Michael Rosen (previously of Eclection), drummer Bill Harrison and the so-called "Dundee Horns" -- saxophonists Roger Ball and Malcolm Duncan.

Moonshake

He would later work with The Duke Spirit, AMP, Zukanican and his own free-jazz/rock fusion band Solar Fire Trio.

Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party

Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party is a video recording; the home version of a PBS "In The Spotlight" special on Steely Dan.

Raisinhill

Raisinhill (formed 2001) is an American jazz/rock trio featuring John Kasiewicz (guitar), Brian Anderson (double bass) and Jay Bond (drums).

Roy Powell

As of 2010 Powell has been moving his musical output to a more progressive Jazz inspired Rock style being active in the trio InterStatic, featuring Jacob Young and Jarle Vespestad, and Naked Truth, the Jazz-Rock / Ambient / Cosmic-Rock Quartet of Powell, Lorenzo Feliciati, Pat Mastelotto and Graham Haynes.

Smithsonian Channel's Sound Revolution

Documentary footage, expert interviews and musical performances trace the origins of be-bop, jazz, rock 'n' roll and soul music, all emanating from “ground zero” – Clarksdale, Mississippi – and the Mississippi Delta.

Staffan William-Olsson

When he discovered jazz-rock, Weather Report, John McLaughlin and Allan Holdsworth among others became the new sources of inspiration.

Supersister

The remaining crew, together with new members Charlie Mariano (wind instruments) and Herman van Boeyen (drums) released the album Iskander in 1973, which is a jazz-rock oriented concept album based upon the life of Alexander the Great.

Twiggs County, Georgia

Chuck Leavell, an American musician and current tree farmer in Twiggs County, Georgia, who was a member of The Allman Brothers Band during the height of their 1970's popularity, a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level, a frequently-employed session musician, and long-time touring member of The Rolling Stones.

TWL

The Tony Williams Lifetime, a jazz-rock fusion group led by jazz drummer Tony Williams

Virgil Donati

During the 1980s Donati's drumming was a feature of the Melbourne-based jazz-rock fusion band 'Changes' (Virgil Donati Drums, Joe Chindamo Keyboards, Mark Domoney Guitar, Steve Hadley Bass, John Barrett Saxophone), which later became 'Loose Change' (a quartet - same lineup as 'Changes' minus Saxophone).