MUSIC 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Smooth Jazz, Tito Puente, Ray Barretto
Document Summary
In 1967, the group blood, sweat and tears came on the pop music scene. Their albums were successful and demonstrated jazz experimentation. The achievement of their first few albums reveals the powers of jazz improvisation and ambitious arranging within the context of the pop music mainstream. An equally successful horn band that emerged at about the same time was. Although the jazz concept was less evident in their style of improvisation and arranging, their presentation was no less ambitious. Chicago featured extended compositions, complex rock guitar solos, and a penetrating unison horn sound. Tears as jazz, this brought the mainstream of pop and jazz much closer together. With this, the group dreams was formed, with future jazz-rock greats don grolnick, randy and michael brecker, and billy cobham. Many musical groups have worked within the jazz-rock style such as the iconic ensembles tower of power, the yellowjackets, and spyro gyra.
