Soul jazz, boogaloo

Style · 1950s-1973 · Philadelphia, New York · Modern jazz (1940-1970)

An autonomous and commercial style: Hammond organ, gospel, R&B. Jimmy Smith, Cannonball Adderley (Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, 1966), Lee Morgan (The Sidewinder). Absent from the original diagram.

Where it comes from

• Hard bop
• Jump blues, R&B
• Gospel

What it gave rise to or influenced

• Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk
• Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz
• Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz

Artists

• Horace Silver (1928–2014, piano)
• Joe Zawinul (1932–2007, keyboards)
• Ray Charles (1930–2004, vocals, keyboards)
• Sam Cooke (1931–1964, vocals)
• Rhoda Scott (1938, Hammond organ)
• Fred Nardin (1987, piano, organ)
• Les McCann (1935–2023, piano, vocals)
• Jowee Omicil (1977, saxophones, clarinet, cornet)
• Gregory Porter (1971, vocals)
• Jimmy Forrest (1920–1980, tenor saxophone)
• Mongo Santamaría (1917–2003, congas, bongos)
• Eddie Harris (1934–1996, tenor saxophone, electric saxophone (Varitone), piano)
• Ronnie Foster (1950, organ, electric piano, piano, synthesizer)
• Joey DeFrancesco (1971–2022, Hammond organ, piano, keyboards, trumpet, tenor saxophone)
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (1922–1986, tenor saxophone)
• Parlor Greens (trio (organ, guitar, drums))

Tracks to start with

• Song for My Father — Horace Silver (1964)
• The Sidewinder — Lee Morgan (1964)
• Cantaloupe Island — Herbie Hancock (1964)
• Watermelon Man — Herbie Hancock (1962)
• We Free Queens — Rhoda Scott Lady Quartet (2017)
• 1960 What? — Gregory Porter (2010)
• Shaker — Sophie Alour (2014)
• Freedom Jazz Dance — Eddie Harris (1965)
• Mystic Brew — Ronnie Foster (1972)
• Home Is Where the Hatred Is — Esther Phillips (1972)
• Where Were You — Joey DeFrancesco (1990)
• The Truth — Les McCann (1960)
• The Chef — Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (1958)
• A Go Go — John Scofield (1998)
• Emeralds — Parlor Greens (2026)

Sources

• EN : Soul jazz

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