query: genre alan wakeman
supports: Progressive rock (shortened as "prog"; sometimes "art rock", "classical rock" or "symphonic rock") is a broad subgenre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its "progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening, not dancing. Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms". William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914  August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, and his influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films. He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee. Alan Wakeman ( born 13 October 1947 , Hammersmith , West London ) is an English saxophonist , known for his work in Soft Machine during 1976 , appearing on the album Softs . He is a cousin of the keyboard player Rick Wakeman . Wakeman started on the clarinet at age 14 and , while at school , played in a band with cousin Rick on piano . He switched to the alto saxophone at 16 , then subsequently to the tenor saxophone ; he also plays soprano saxophone . He joined the Paul Lytton Quartet in 1968 and had his own trio in 1970 ( with Harry Miller on bass ) . He subsequently worked with Graham Collier ( including the albums Songs for My Father and The Day of the Dead ) , Johnny Dankworth and Mike Westbrook ( including playing saxophone and clarinet on the 1975 release Citadel / Room 315 and 1976 's Love / Dream and Variations ) . He was also an original member of Alan Gowen 's band Gilgamesh in 1972 - 3 , but left before Gilgamesh 's first album . He left Soft Machine in 1976 to join David Essex 's band , having first worked with him in 1974 on the album David Essex . He also worked further with Westbrook and in the West End , including for the musical , Grease . Richard Christopher "Rick" Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, television and radio presenter, and author. He is best known for being in the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s. Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz fusion band from Canterbury, named after the book "The Soft Machine" by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene. Though they achieved little commercial success, they are widely considered by critics to have been very influential in rock music, with "AllMusic" describing them as "one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones." Canterbury (, or ) is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour. AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network. The Soft Machine is a 1961 novel by American author William S. Burroughs. It was originally composed using the cut-up technique partly from manuscripts belonging to "The Word Hoard". It is the first part of "The Nova Trilogy". Jazz fusion (also known as jazz-rock) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz. During this time many jazz musicians began experimenting with electric instruments and amplified sound for the first time, as well as electronic effects and synthesizers. Many of the developments during the late 1960s and early 1970s have since become established elements of jazz fusion musical practice. The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury Sound) is a subgenre or sibling to progressive rock. The term describes a loosely defined style of music created by a number of improvisational musicians, some of whom were based in the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
candidates: art art rock beat generation essayist genre government jazz jazz fusion latin jazz military military band music musical novel paranoid fiction progressive rock radio ragtime rhythm and blues rock short story symphonic rock television
answer: jazz