Out Louder recalls the gritty swamp soul-jazz of late '60s Blue Note records.

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Another older Shinjuku gem is Jazz Pub Michaux, a bar whose white-bearded, kimono-and-Mongolian-cap-wearing 76-year-old owner has 4, 500 records of hard-bop and soul-jazz, including a large collection of rare vinyl by artists like Baby Face Willette and Groove Holmes.

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He is also known to play small club dates in New York as a part of The Robert Glasper Experiment, in which he further explores the intersection of hip-hop and jazz, with some neo-soul and funk thrown in.

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She moved to the U.S. for a time, and American jazz, soul and hip-hop became part of her musical mix, along with reggae, Latin and other world sounds.

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Funky Fish Club is a fun, friendly and unpretentious little club that plays soul, funk, jazz, Motown and old-school breaks, but draws the line at cheesy disco.

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Unlike the bluntly bluesy garage-band sound of the Stones, Mr. Fagen's music is a rich-textured, harmonically oblique amalgam of rock, jazz and soul.

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Mingus mashed up bebop, swing and soul, all while leading an avant-garde excavation of the free-jazz latent in New Orleans group improvisation a sort of bluesy Charles-Ives-meets-King-Oliver approach.

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They infuse an African-American sensibility into music that includes, not only opera, but jazz, gospel, soul and blues.

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Turkish-born Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947, providing an early platform for jazz, soul and blues musicians, including John Coltrane, Leadbelly and Dizzy Gillespie.

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