soul jazz

One of the musics included under the name of hard bop (c. mid- to late 1950s). It uses speech-inflected tonality, folk, blues or church-based melodies and rhythms (frequently 6/8), the electric organ, and other elements identified with funk.


Jimmy Smith in "Get Yourself a College Girl" (1964)

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