Jazz blues fusion
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| Live album by John Mayall | ||||
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| Label (s) | Polygram | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
7th |
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running time |
43:54 |
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John Mayall |
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Studio (s) |
live |
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Jazz Blues Fusion is the 17th music album by British blues musician John Mayall . In doing so, he entered a genre that was new and unknown to him - jazz . Instead of just playing standardized jazz, Mayall mixes it with his typical British blues. This is why many consider John Mayall to be the creator of a new style of music, the jazz blues . But this is not the truth. However, he has strongly influenced and shaped modern jazz blues. The result of his album was a mixture of slow, calm, relaxed jazz blues and funky, fast jazz blues. As usual, many of the songs are dominated by Mayall's harmonica (in the key of G major).
The line-up of his Bluesbreakers had changed completely in the meantime, apart from bassist Larry Taylor all musicians who play here are for the first time with Mayall on one record. The band is made up of well-known performers of modern funky jazz.
All songs were recorded live in Boston and New York City . Eddie Kramer was in charge of the recording technology, who also cut and mixed the songs (in the Electric Lady Studios ). The photos of the album were taken by Nancy Throckmorton and Steve Katleman. John Mayall is responsible for the design, who also wrote the songs and lyrics. The album was released in 1972 by PolyGram Records, it was also produced by John Mayall.
Album pieces
- Country Road - (7:17)
- Mess Around - (2:50)
- Good Times Boogie - (8:52)
- Change Your Ways - (3:41)
- Dry Throat - (6:40)
- Exercise in C Major for Harmonica - (8:33)
- Got to Be This Way - (6:52)