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Jazz Rock Precursors

mixing rock with older blues style & adding horns

• Blues Project - performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967
• Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  • accompanied Dylan at 1965 Newport Folk Festival
  • also performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967
  • see their performance at Woodstock
• Barry Goldberg Blues Band

Electric Flag

• Band was formed in 1967 by Mike Bloomfield (guitarist for Paul Butterfield) & Barry Goldberg (keyboard) with drummer Buddy Miles (Miles later played with Hendrix)

Killing Floor

12-bar blues, integrating horns; this song is from their second album, A Long Time Comin' (1968)

• Electic Flag performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967
• the band lasted only a year & 1/2

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