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soul jazz

Last updated: Tue Oct 28 2025 08:34:40 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Soul jazz blends the improvisational spirit of jazz with the groove and emotional intensity of soul and R&B, emphasizing infectious rhythms and bluesy melodies over complex harmonic exploration. Emerging in the 1960s, it brought jazz closer to popular music through danceable beats, funky organ lines, and accessible hooks while maintaining artistic sophistication. The style bridges sacred and secular African American musical traditions, creating music that moves both body and mind with equal power.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
46		1959	Arnett Cobb	Party Time	soul jazz swing
28		1960	Jack McDuff	Brother Jack	soul jazz
62		1961	Grant Green	Grantstand	jazz
69		1962	Fred Jackson	Hootin' 'n Tootin'	jazz soul jazz
82		1962	Ike Quebec	Heavy Soul	jazz soul jazz
34		1963	Jimmy Smith	Back At The Chicken Shack	jazz
55		1963	Big John Patton	Blue John	hard bop soul jazz
29		1964	Grant Green	Idle Moments	jazz	jazz # 12 jazz guitar # 85
35		1964-09	Jimmy Smith	The Cat	jazz	organ # 4 hammond # 95
10		1964-11	Herbie Hancock	The Blue Note Collection - Empyrean Isles	acoustic americana avant-garde jazz blues rock contemporary jazz cool jazz funk fusion instrumental instrumental hip-hop jam band jazz jazz fusion jazz hop jazz-funk new orleans soul jazz usa
33		1965	Lee Morgan	Cornbread	jazz	hard bop # 49
59		1965	Shirley Scott	Shirley Scott & the Soul Saxes	jazz jazz organ soul jazz	jazz organ # 28
89		1965-08-30	Eddie Harris	The In Sound	hard bop jazz soul jazz	hard bop # 26
73		1966	Cannonball Adderley	Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Live)
80		1968	Dorothy Ashby	Afro-Harping	jazz	space age pop # 68 exotica # 69 harp # 95
65		1968-03-14	Eddie Harris	Plug Me In	bass hard bop jazz soul jazz
90		1969	Quincy Jones	Walking in Space	jazz	big band # 50
95		1969	Albert Ayler	New Grass	rhythm and blues soul jazz	rhythm and blues # 26
25		1969	Les McCann	Soul Hits	hard bop jazz soul jazz
98		1970	Dorothy Ashby	The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby	ethereal jazz fusion jazz-funk soul jazz spiritual spiritual jazz vocal jazz	vocal jazz # 29 jazz-funk # 58 spiritual # 80 spiritual jazz # 90
44		1970	Sonny Phillips	Sure 'Nuff	funk jazz soul jazz
57		1970	Les McCann	Compared To What	soul jazz
76		1972	The Awakening	Hear, Sense and Feel		spiritual jazz # 67
93		1972-03-05	Kimiko Kasai	Butterfly	disco funk jazz jazz-funk soul soul jazz vocal jazz	jazz-funk # 36
100		1973	Hareton Salvanini	S.P. 73	baroque pop chamber jazz classical crossover jazz-funk mpb orchestral soul jazz	baroque pop # 40 orchestral # 82 jazz-funk # 84 classical crossover # 96 chamber jazz # 100
42		1973	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Bright Moments	jazz
75		1974	Charles Earland	Leaving This Planet	jazz jazz-funk soul jazz
19		1974	Stanley Turrentine	Hustlin' (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [feat. Bob Cranshaw, Kenny Burrell, Otis Finch & Shirley Scott] [Remastered]
60		1974	Cannonball Adderley	Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'
86		1975	Marion Brown	Vista	avant-garde jazz instrumental jazz jazz-funk post-bop soul jazz spiritual jazz	jazz-funk # 12 avant-garde jazz # 43 post-bop # 55 spiritual jazz # 74
70		1975	Grover Washington, Jr.	Mister Magic
56		1975-09	The Drive	Can You Feel It?	soul jazz
97		1976	David T. Walker	On Love	smooth jazz soul jazz
9		1977	Noor Bersaudara	Noor Bersaudara	soul jazz vocal jazz
41		1977	The Last Poets	Delights of the Garden	jazz spoken word poetry
66		1977	Various Artists	Right on!	funk soul jazz
37		1978	Jimmy Smith	Unfinished Business	hard bop jazz jazz fusion jazz-funk soul jazz swing
43		1978	Charles Mingus	Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked	acid jazz bass bebop chillout downtempo drum and bass dub electronic funk jazz jazz fusion jazz hop jazz-funk neo-soul nu jazz soul soul jazz trip-hop turntablism vocal jazz
79		1978	Norman Connors	Dance of Magic	jazz soul jazz
49		1982	Jack McDuff	Legends of Acid Jazz	jazz soul jazz
61		1982	The Crusaders	Royal Jam	jazz
74		1982	Jimmy Smith	Off the Top	hard bop soul jazz
8		1982	Jane Aire & the Belvederes	Soul Jazz Records Presents Punk 45: Burn, Rubber City, Burn - Akron, Ohio: Punk and the Decline of the Mid-West 1975-80
94		1985	Sun Ra	The Night of the Purple Moon	avant-garde jazz bebop jazz soul jazz	bebop # 65 avant-garde jazz # 72
4		1985	Various Artists	Hidden Beach Recordings presents: Unwrapped Vol. 2	soul jazz
12		1985	Stanley Turrentine	Sugar (40th Anniversary Edition)	hard bop soul jazz
64		1986	Joe Zawinul	Dialects	hard bop	hard bop # 22
30		1986	Manfred Mann	Instrumental Asylum	beat jazz rock soul jazz
40		1986	John Patton	Blue John	blues jazz organ soul jazz
68		1989	Horace Silver Quintet	Song For My Father	hard bop jazz piano jazz soul jazz	piano jazz # 18
88		1990	The Brand New Heavies	The Brand New Heavies	acid jazz	acid jazz # 58
14		1990-06-22	Manfred Mann	Soul of Mann (Instrumental) [Mono]	blues rock jazz fusion jazz rock soul jazz
27		1991	Margareth Menezes	Kindala	pop world ethnic female vocalists folk jazz latin rock soul
17		1993	Grant Green	Street Funk & Jazz Grooves: The Best of Grant Green	jazz
47		1994-04-20	Night Trains	Smooth Acid Jazz	cool jazz jazz soul jazz
78		1997	Big John Patton	Let 'Em Roll	jazz
67		1997-01-07	Bobby Lyle	The Power Of Touch	jazz piano jazz soul jazz	piano jazz # 5
18		1997-04	The Herbaliser	Sex Lounge (Sensual Foreplay)	deep house dubstep liquid funk soul jazz
31		1997-06-17	Jimmy McGriff	Greatest Hits	jazz	jazz organ # 7
22		1997-07-15	Grant Green	The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark	jazz
16		1998-06-16	Reuben Wilson	Blue Note Rare Grooves	funk hard bop jazz soul jazz
20		1999	Bill Gaither	Classic Moments From The Bill Gaither Trio, Vol. 2
26		2001	Medeski, Martin & Wood	Note Bleu: Medeski, Martin & Wood - The Best of the Blue Note Years 1998-2005
15		2005	Jakob Norgren Big Band Splash	Wide Meadow Soul	jazz soul big band lounge nordic rnb
23		2005	Philip Clark	The Dreamchilde Suites - Act 1	acid jazz pop soul soul jazz
32		2005	Ray Charles	Genius + Soul = Jazz/My Kind of Jazz	soul jazz
45		2006	Various Artists	12" 80s Grooves	dance disco funk pop rnb soul jazz
81		2006	Dwight Trible	Living Water	downtempo soul jazz
83		2006-07-03	ESG	Keep on Moving	soul jazz
7		2007	Oliver Grimball	Anodyne Holiday	soul jazz
54		2008-01-23	Anna Christoffersson	One	soul jazz
3		2008-06-23	Margareth Menezes	Naturalmente	pop
1		2008-10-01	Orgone	Bacano	funk afrobeat disco soul jazz	los angeles # 43 afrobeat # 63
85		2009	Build An Ark	Love Part 1	jazz soul soul jazz
2		2009	Various Artists	Deep Throat Anthology, Parts I & II
72		2009-10-27	Somi	If The Rains Come First	jazz nu jazz soul jazz
51		2010	Big Band Splash	Another Apple	funk rhythm and blues rnb soul soul jazz
11		2010	Harriet Lewis, Gregor Hilden Band	Soulful stew
13		2011	[novox]	Hollywood is on fire	funk jazz soul jazz
63		2012	Jessica Lauren Four	Jessica Lauren Four	jazz soul jazz
50		2012-09-30	Manfred Mann	Up The Junction (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	art rock jazz rock psychedelic pop soul jazz
87		2013-01-29	Mario Biondi	Sun	soul jazz
99		2013-05-13	Robert Glasper Experiment	Black Radio 2	contemporary jazz jazz soul jazz	contemporary jazz # 51
53		2013-07-15	The Style Council	Classic Album Selection	acid jazz alternative rock downtempo electronic funk house jazz lounge pop pop rock soul jazz
36		2013-11-25	Teotima	Counting The Ways	jazz nu jazz soul jazz spiritual jazz	spiritual jazz # 25
77		2014	Jimmy Smith	Back At The Chicken Shack (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)	hard bop jazz soul jazz
38		2014-03-28	Theo Croker	Afro Physicist	soul jazz
48		2014-08-19	Wil Blades	Field Notes	contemporary jazz jazz jazz-funk soul jazz
92		2016	Theo Croker	Escape Velocity	jazz jazz-funk meditation post-bop soul jazz spiritual	jazz-funk # 34 meditation # 47 spiritual # 66 post-bop # 81
58		2016-06-17	Jukka Eskola Soul Trio	Jukka Eskola Soul Trio	soul jazz
96		2016-06-24	Kandace Springs	Soul Eyes	jazz soul jazz
5		2019	Bill Doggett	Dance Awhile With Doggett	blues jazz soul jazz
71		2022-08	Idris Muhammad	Peace and Rhythm	soul jazz spiritual jazz	spiritual jazz # 65
39		2022-11-02	Muriel Grossmann	UNIVERSAL CODE	jazz soul jazz
84		2024-05-03	Kamasi Washington	Fearless Movement	jazz fusion spiritual jazz	jazz-funk # 4 jazz fusion # 29 spiritual jazz # 97
6			Auvie Sinclair	Float!	boom bap chillhop hip-hop instrumental lo-fi new wave portland rap riddim soul soul jazz	riddim # 7
91			Chip Wickham	Love & Life	cool jazz jazz soul jazz	cool jazz # 51
21			Gino Federici	Serenata	soul jazz
52			7Destinee7	Hidden Beach Recordings Presents Hidden Hits vol.1	soul jazz
24			Dr. Lonnie Smith, George Benson, Joe Lovano & Ron Carter	Afrodesia

Related genres

• jazz
• funk
• jazz-funk
• hard bop
• soul
• jazz fusion
• instrumental
• spiritual jazz
• acid jazz
• vocal jazz