Soul-Jazz Grooves

What happens when jazz players fall in love with the downbeat. They stop playing over the rhythm and start playing with it. Herbie Hancock's clavinet bassline rewired funk. George Benson's guitar says everything without saying a word. Roy Ayers's vibes and three chords created eternal relaxation. Donald Byrd left the jazz club for the dancefloor and never looked back. Bobbi Humphrey turned her flute into a funk weapon. Quincy Jones applied a jazz arranger's precision to a soul groove and produced flawless evidence that the two genres are the same conversation in different dialects. This is what soul sounds like when the musicians know enough theory to know when to ignore it.