As a jazz subgenre, soul-jazz began to flourish in the early 1960s. A groove-oriented style built from the bottom up, soul-jazz usually begins with the bass player: You take a strong bass line, establish a steady groove between the bass and drums, and then embellish that groove with riffs and melody lines that draw heavily from gospel, blues and R&B. Here are five classic examples.
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This story originally ran Dec. 15, 2008.
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— Cover for Jimmy Smith's Finest Hour
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— The Sidewinder
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— Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live At 'The Club'
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— The George Benson Cookbook
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— The Electrifying Eddie Harris
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