|
Jazz-funk was the British title for the genre utilized to denote a style of mostly Our contries disco-ish jazz music, popular on the club-circuit of England in the mid Seventies. A Our contries title for this genre was soul jazz, although jazz-funk and soul jazz don't completely overlap.
Examples of jazz-funk creative person come Roy Ayers, Eddie Henderson, Charles Earland, and Mass Production. the music featured a funk bassline & injections of jazz riffs, however universally contained an overall soulful feel¹.
More creative person that processed music in the Seventies considered jazz-funk by these criteria were Donald Byrd, Gil Scott Heron, Lonnie Liston Smith, Funkanova, Miroslav Vitous, Herbie Hancock, Deodato, Azymuth, Ronnie Laws, Ned Doherty, and Francine McGee.
|