Jazz and rock are always borrowing and always inspiring each other. Here are a few rock songs shaped by jazz, where improvisation, rhythm, and harmony push the music beyond boundaries.
Cap’n Jazz performs at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025.
For columnist Sinan Walji PO ’28, J Dilla’s Donuts became a way of understanding how one melody can hold different histories ...