Doctor Dopo Jam: Biography

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Genre:

Rock Music

Decades Active:

1970's

An eclectic range of influences were fused into the mid-70s jazz-rock music of Doctor Dopo Jam. Inspired by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, the Denmark-based septet blended everything from Motown-style soul and post-bebop jazz to French psych-pop. Despite the absence of a traditional bass and drums rhythm section, the interplay of violin and a three-piece brass section gave Doctor Dopo Jam its unique sound. Although they released two impressive albums -- Entre in 1973 and Fat Dogs And Danishmen the following year -- Doctor Dopo Jam may have been too progressive for the Scandinavian audiences of the mid-1970s and they disbanded in late-1974.

- Craig Harris, All Music Guide