Influence of Miles, and --
Others may know this but it was recent news for me. Watching a program on the making of Pink Floyd's classic "Dark Side of the Moon", I learned that PF keyboard player Richard Wright said a major influence in his playing was jazz, and particularly Miles' "KOB" album. He found an offbeat chord there that he then used on Dark Side.
This information came just over a week after reading that Greg Allman - Allman Brothers Band - listened repeatedly to "KOB" and he learned improvisation from that.
Some years ago an interview with Roger McGuinn - Byrds - credited Coltrane with inspiring his jangly guitar intro to "Eight Miles High".
There likely have been many other jazz influences on pop/rock recordings but I don't know enough about music to pick those out. Still an interesting note that while jazz popularity was diminishing the rock music that became so dominant looked to jazz for creativity.
Others may know this but it was recent news for me. Watching a program on the making of Pink Floyd's classic "Dark Side of the Moon", I learned that PF keyboard player Richard Wright said a major influence in his playing was jazz, and particularly Miles' "KOB" album. He found an offbeat chord there that he then used on Dark Side.
This information came just over a week after reading that Greg Allman - Allman Brothers Band - listened repeatedly to "KOB" and he learned improvisation from that.
Some years ago an interview with Roger McGuinn - Byrds - credited Coltrane with inspiring his jangly guitar intro to "Eight Miles High".
There likely have been many other jazz influences on pop/rock recordings but I don't know enough about music to pick those out. Still an interesting note that while jazz popularity was diminishing the rock music that became so dominant looked to jazz for creativity.