Soul jazz is a development of jazz incorporating strong influences from blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for jazz combo, often an organ trio featuring a Hammond organ. History. Soul jazz is often associated with hard bop. Mark C. Gridley ...

The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie is the debut studio album by Stevie Wonder (then billed as Little Stevie Wonder) released in September 1962 on the Tamla Motown label.. The album showcases the 12-year-old Wonder's talents as a composer and instrumentalist and is one of two Wonder studio albums on which he does not sing (the other being Eivets Rednow); he is featured on …

A Detroit, la Motown si concentrò nel creare un sound orientato particolarmente sul pop influenzato in parti uguali dal gospel, jazz, R&B e rock & roll.Nel sud invece, il genere assunse tratti più duri, con ritmi sincopati, voci grezze, e fiati squillanti. Tutti questi stili di soul dominavano le classifiche di musica nera negli anni 60 e spesso venivano proposte anche nelle classifiche pop.