This document discusses the origins and evolution of jazz rock and jazz fusion genres. It traces how jazz influenced early rock music through horn sections and jazz-trained musicians. In the 1960s, jazz started to appear more on pop charts through artists like Dave Brubeck and Getz & Gilberto. Two key bands, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago, blended rock with jazz and horns under producer James Guercio. Miles Davis' 1969 album Bitches Brew combined rock and jazz in a revolutionary way, inspiring many fusion artists including Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Weather Report in the 1970s. The document also examines soul jazz artists and CTI Records' popularization of smooth jazz.

1. Jazz Rock & Jazz Fusion
Rock Has Similar Background as Jazz
Early Rock Often Had Jazz Sax Solos
R&B Continued to Have Horn Sections
The Change: Musicians Who Played in Band
Brought Those Skills To Rock Bands

2. Jazz On The Charts
Take Five (1959) Dave Brubeck Hit 1961
Cast Your Fate To The Wind (1963) Vince
Guaraldi (Charlie Brown music)
Girl From Ipenema (1964) Getz & Gilberto
Mercy Mercy Mercy (1966) Cannonball
Adderley

3. Jazz Rock Beginnings
Two Bands, Same Producer James Guercio
He Produced the Buckinghams (Kind of A
Drag), Used Studio Horn Players
Produced Chicago & Blood, Sweat & Tears

4. Blood, Sweat, and Tears.1 (BS&T)
The Blues Project (1965-67), Blues, Folk,
Bluegrass Musicians
Al Cooper & Steve Katz Former BS&T (4
Horns)
1st Album, Critically Acclaimed, No Radio
Hits

5. Blood, Sweat, & Tears.2
Musical Direction Changed, Cooper
Leaves, Records With American Super
Group & Discovers Lynyrd Skynyrd
David Clayton-Thomas, Lead Singer
James Guercio, Produced Them While
Working With Chicago
Many Radio Hits

6. Chicago Transit Authority
Began as The Big Thing, Guercio Changed
Their Name
The Real CTA Threatened Lawsuit Name
Changed to Chicago
Guercio Produced Them Through Chicago
XI
1st Album Played on FM, not AM Radio
2nd Album Had Several AM Hits

7. Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Chicago Blues by European-Americans
Paul Butterfield – Harmonica
Mike Bloomfield – Guitar
Played 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Backed
Dylan w/Electric Instruments
Electric Flag: Mike Bloomfield (Paul
Butterfield Blues Band) & Buddy Miles

8. Other Jazz-Rock Bands
Ides of March: Vehicle
Chase: Get It On
Cold Blood
Ten Wheel Drive
Today: Tower of Power

9. Soul Jazz/Funky Jazz
Branch of Hard Bop Featured Blues &
Gospel Roots
Horace Silver: 1950s Pianist
Herbie Hancock (piano): Watermelon Man
Cannonball Adderly (sax): Mercy Mercy
Mercy
Jimmie Smith (organ)

10. Jazz Fusion: Miles Davis
Combining Rock w/Jazz Was Not A
Popular Idea Until Miles Davis’ Bitches
Brew Recording (1969)
Revolutionary in 4 Jazz Styles!
Davis (Trumpet) Played with Parker in
Early 1950s

11. Fusion: Miles
Birth of The Cool (1949-50) Initiated the
Cool School
Mid-50s 1st Quintet, Hard Bop
Kind of Blue (1959) Introduced Modal Jazz
1960s, 2nd Quintet
1969, Bitches Brew: Fusion Begins (Clive
Davis Columbia Suggested He Tap The
Jazz-Rock Market)

12. Miles Inspired Fusion
Mahavishnu Orchestra (1971) John
McLaughlin
A Fusion of Music of India & Progressive
Rock

13. Miles Inspired Fusion
Chick Corea & Return to Forever (1971)
Originally a Fusion of Jazz and Brazilian
Music; Later (1973) More Progressive Rock
Continues To Be A Major Influence

14. Miles Inspired Fusion
Herbie Hancock & Headhunters (1973)
Inspired by Sly & the Family Stone He
Explored Funk.
Chameleon: Synthesizer Funk, Big Hit
1983 Rockit Made the R&B Charts and
MTV

15. Miles Inspired Fusion
Weather Report (1970): Wayne Shorter &
Joe Zawinul
Began As Free Form Avant-Garde Jazz
Gradually Shifted Toward More Danceable
(Commercial) Rhythm

16. Fusion Beyond Miles
Soul/Funky Jazz Developed Became
Popular on Jazz Radio
CTI Records Released Cleanly Recorded
Lite Jazz
George Benson: Guitar Vocals
Hubert Laws: Flute