The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Concert flamenco style · 1960–

The meeting with jazz happens in the concert/recording wing: amplified toque, festival sets, and palos already treated as concert numbers.

Influence
Jazz genre · 1910–

Taxonomically flamenco-jazz is a jazz style; this edge names the practices that make that true: functional or modal harmony, chorus improvisation, and small-group roles.

Influence
Jazz fusion style · 1968–

Flamenco jazz takes fusion’s even-eight electric small group as the 1970s meeting chassis: guitar virtuosity, concert volume, and head–solos form under palo color.

Influence

Flamenco jazz

style · 1960–

Also called flamenco-jazz

Kind of Jazz

A late-twentieth-century jazz style in which palos, flamenco guitar language, or cante rhetoric sit inside small-group improvisation — and in which jazz harmony and walking or electric bass sit inside concert flamenco. It is a style of jazz (taxonomic parent), not a palo. It hears Concert flamenco and Jazz as the two languages, and Jazz fusion for the 1970s even-eight guitar meeting. Paco de Lucía’s meetings with jazz guitarists, Spanish pianists such as Chano Domínguez, and related bands are the core. Latin jazz leftover as a different Afro-Cuban meeting. Rumba catalana leftover as a pop-rhythmic neighbor. Later Spanish jazz stays on this node. Empty Given is historically checked.

Listen

  1. Spain Chick Corea (1972) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  2. Entre dos aguas (jazz meetings) Paco de Lucía / John McLaughlin / Al Di Meola (1981) YouTube
  3. Mediterranean Sundance / Río Ancho Al Di Meola / Paco de Lucía / John McLaughlin (1981) YouTube
  4. Chiquito Paco de Lucía Sextet (1981) YouTube
  5. Zyryab Paco de Lucía (1990) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  6. Bulería del año Jorge Pardo / Carles Benavent (1990s)
  7. La Estiba Paco de Lucía Sextet (1990) YouTube
  8. Drume negrita (flamenco-jazz reading) Chano Domínguez (1990s) YouTube
  9. Calle Deusto Carles Benavent (1987)
  10. Palenque Paco de Lucía (1987) YouTube

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Concert flamenco → Flamenco jazz

meter and groovemelodyinstrumentationperformance practicestrength: highwell documented1960–oralrecordingpedagogy

Mechanism

The meeting with jazz happens in the concert/recording wing: amplified toque, festival sets, and palos already treated as concert numbers. Those practices become heads and grooves for jazz improvisation. Strength is high on Flamenco jazz. The umbrella still supplies the palo language; this edge names the hinge that actually sat in the same room as jazz musicians.

Evidence

Recorded projects that keep compás while inviting jazz solos; Spanish jazz pianists using bulería and rumba as vehicles; guitar trio meetings built on concert flamenco technique.

Debate

Whether a given record is flamenco-jazz or jazz-fusion with Spanish color. The edge applies when concert palo or toque is structural.

Mediators

artist: Paco de Lucía; artist: Chano Domínguez

Jazz → Flamenco jazz

harmonyperformance practiceform and structurestrength: highwell documented1960–oralrecordingpedagogy

Mechanism

Taxonomically flamenco-jazz is a jazz style; this edge names the practices that make that true: functional or modal harmony, chorus improvisation, and small-group roles. Without them the same palos would remain flamenco. Strength high on the child.

Evidence

Jazz musicians on the records; chorus form next to compás; walking or fusion bass languages.

Debate

Redundant with taxonomic_parents: [jazz] only if one treats taxonomy as influence. Here the parent relation is “kind of”; the edge is the transferable craft.

Mediators

artist: John McLaughlin; community: Spanish jazz musicians

Jazz fusion → Flamenco jazz

meter and grooveinstrumentationtimbre and productionperformance practicestrength: mediumscholarly consensus1973–1981recordingoral

Mechanism

Flamenco jazz takes fusion’s even-eight electric small group as the 1970s meeting chassis: guitar virtuosity, concert volume, and head–solos form under palo color. Strength medium. jazz flamenco jazz is the longer jazz-language hop; this edge is the fusion-era guitar meeting (McLaughlin, Di Meola, Corea-adjacent rooms). Latin jazz leftover as a different Afro-Cuban meeting.

Evidence

Paco de Lucía with McLaughlin and Di Meola; Friday Night in San Francisco; Nicholson on fusion guitar; Goldberg on the concert collaborations.

Debate

Whether this is already concert flamenco plus jazz. Concert flamenco keeps palo as law; flamenco jazz uses fusion’s small-group job as the frame.

Mediators

artist: Paco de Lucía; artist: John McLaughlin; artist: Al Di Meola