Date: 2009-07-13 03:04 pm (UTC)
There were also clear jazz crossovers to disco/r&b around the turn of the '80s -- The Crusaders' great "Street Life" in 1979, for instance, not to mention any number of tracks by guys like George Benson and Al Jarreau and Quincy JOnes himself and maybe Peabo Bryson, etc.; so yeah, if Michael was incorporating jazz into pop r&b, he was hardly alone, or hardly the most explicit guy doing it.

Which reminds me that Herbie Hancock was obviously yet another guy merging synth-pop, hip-hop, r&b, jazz and rock into pop chart hits at the time.
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