{"id":1618,"date":"2008-08-07T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-13T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T11:19:25","slug":"does-jazz-go-with-that-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/does-jazz-go-with-that-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Jazz Go With That Rock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4GLJCZ5L2sQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><em>What rock musicians have been able to successfully incorporate elements of jazz into their rock?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How we define &#8220;elements of jazz&#8221; is best left to you, but I hope we have the good sense not to allow, say, <strong>Ted Nugent<\/strong>&#8216;s hiring of the Brecker Brothers to play on one of his songs as an example of a rock artist incorporating elements of jazz into their work.<\/p>\n<p>Rock artists have been pretty comfortable slipping country, blues, and folk into their music, and as much as we deride &#8217;70s-style jazz fusion, a number of jazz artists have incorporated elements of rock into their sound in an effective way. But beside the occasional scat singing of <strong>Van Morrison<\/strong> or the <em>chops<\/em>-laden session cats on a <strong>Steely Dan<\/strong> or <strong>Paul Simon<\/strong> album, have any rock bands since the days of <strong>Soft Machine<\/strong> spent much time even trying to take a &#8220;jazz approach&#8221; to rock? <strong>Joni Mitchell<\/strong> seemed to have gone whole hog into a jazz approach, but I&#8217;m not sure that it succeeded beyond a few songs. Of course, I&#8217;ll leave it to you to determine what a jazz approach is, or what exactly <em>is<\/em> jazz altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Is <strong>Tortoise<\/strong> a <em>rock<\/em> band successfully incorporating jazz elements, or do they just market themselves as such? (Full 30-minute set of the band follows!)<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sps7YxLeYM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This is an open-ended set of questions. Improvise. <\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to the scat we toss around!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What rock musicians have been able to successfully incorporate elements of jazz into their rock? How we define &#8220;elements of jazz&#8221; is best left to you, but I hope we have the good sense not to allow, say, Ted Nugent&#8216;s hiring of the Brecker Brothers to play on one of his songs as an example <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/does-jazz-go-with-that-rock\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}