Soul Jazz

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.

Soul jazz was developed in the late 1950s, reaching public awareness with the release of “The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco”, 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, as 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 popularised further when sampled by US3 in “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 popularised further when covered as a top 40 pop song by The Buckinghams).

The soul jazz vernacular was a major contributor to the evolution of jazz-funk in the 1970s.

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