Examples of this type embody Lydia Lunch’s Queen of Siam, Gray, the work of James Chance and the Contortions (who combined Soul with free jazz and punk) and the Lounge Lizards (the primary group to name themselves “punk jazz”). The young Jazz Messengers’ contemporaries, together with Roy Hargrove, Marcus Roberts, Wallace Roney and Mark Whitfield had been also influenced by Wynton Marsalis’s emphasis towards jazz tradition. These younger rising stars rejected avant-garde approaches and as an alternative championed the acoustic jazz sound of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and early recordings of the first Miles Davis quintet.
Early examples are Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters band and Miles Davis’ On the Corner album, which, in 1972, began Davis’ foray into jazz-funk and was, he claimed, an attempt at reconnecting with the young black viewers which had largely forsaken jazz for rock and funk. While there’s a discernible rock and funk influence within the … Read More