The arrival of rock guitarists in the mid-1960s on TV shows, at concerts and on the radio and the emergence of the artist-controlled rock album in the late ‘60s led to a seismic change in jazz. Many young jazz musicians found themselves admirers of pop-rock and rock—or at least the larger incomes those forms generated and the increased attention by the …
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