Soul Of Jazz

[dave thorley]

Hi Guys

I'm a new member, I have a good friend Detroit Musician,Producer & Writer, McKinley Jackson. While chatting recently he expresed how he felt that Detroit soul music had been greatly underpinned by the vibrant jazz scene there. That Lables like Motown owed much to the like of Marcus Belgrave and others in there musical developement.

Interested in your views.

Dave

Edited January 11, 2010 by dave thorley

[peterintoronto]

My view is that it's good to make maybe like 10-15 posts in the community before posting links to your eBay sales. Might work in your favor sales-wise?

[dave thorley]

Understand what you are saying. But as I said I'm new to the site and have started this thread as I am interested in the roots and influences of Soul Music. Jazz plays a major part in that and many well know jazz musicians formed the musical engine room at many of the major studios, ie The Funk Brothers, different people working at Stax and the many that passed through Philadelphia International.

Edited January 13, 2010 by dave thorley

[dave thorley]

P.S.

I have been a long time contributor to several of the soul forums and would like to do the same on here. Sadly my welcome here is very simular to that, that I have seen on said forums. Who is this guy ?, Are we gonna let in our exclusive club ?, etc.

[danasgoodstuff]

My veiw is that the influence of jazz on other genres is impossible to ignore but easy to overstate. In other words, yes much soul (and rock and...) was played by session players who would rather been doing some 2nd rate Charlie Parker imitation but we're all lucky commercial pressures made them do something else/more. Some session guys clearly had more or less of a jazz background (I think you can find examples of both at Motown) and some really did not (steve Cropper for instance seens to have drawn on Pops Staples and Lowman Pauling without much if any insterest in jazz, unless Booker T showed it to him).

this topic might have done better with a different title...

[Brad]

P.S.

I have been a long time contributor to several of the soul forums and would like to do the same on here. Sadly my welcome here is very simular to that, that I have seen on said forums. Who is this guy ?, Are we gonna let in our exclusive club ?, etc.

I'm not really sure what you're talking about. All I saw was one person saying you might want to post a little bit before offering something for sale, that's all.

[Chuck Nessa]

He seems to have had the same welcome elsewhere. He seems to be a slow learner. He also deleted the auction part of the post.