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In the wake of jazz fusion’s decline in the mid-1970s jazz artists who continued to seek wider audiences began incorporating a variety of popular sounds into their music forming a group of accessible styles that became known as crossover jazz. Influential saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. incorporated elements of funk and R&B into a sound based in hard bop while singer Al Jarreau blurred the lines between jazz pop and soul.