The contacts and crossovers between jazz and pop/rock music have been beneficial to both, although there are some examples where pop/rock overdid their job on ‘jazz’ records. Some jazz people and influences within the pop/rock genre are presented here, not unimportantly as an excuse to show some nice footage, but hey: isn’t that one of the points around here? (Read on below the image)

​My first contribution to this site is about a remarkable saxophonist , good friend and fellow member of The Jazz Appreciation Society. This blog post is about Ties Mellema.