Traffic

"I knew it wasn't just a good piece or a good track for a record."

Traffic leaned on its jazz influences for 1971's 'The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys,' delivering what many consider the British band's best album.

The first Glastonbury Festival began on June 20, 1971 and featured David Bowie, Traffic, Joan Baez, Fairport Convention and Hawkwind.

These six songs blend soul, folk, jazz and progressive rock into unique whole.

They're rightly remembered as titans of jazz-rock and soul. But that's not the way things began.

When Traffic released their debut album, 'Dear Mr. Fantasy,' in late 1967, they really sounded like no one else at the time. While they weren't as psychedelic as many of their peers, they mixed blues, jazz, soul and folk with the heady atmosphere of the era.

The first round of the May 2013 Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame includes two '60s acts that have left an indelible influence on subsequent generations of musicians. The winner of round one will face other iconic artists to determine who'll be the third act immortalized in the Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame.

For all of the buzz surrounding frontman Steve Winwood when he helped form Traffic in 1967, the band's not-so-secret weapon was its genre-jumping music. Like many of its contemporaries, the quartet played around with a variety of sounds on its albums: pop, rock, jazz, psychedelic, R&B, folk, blues, prog and even a form of world music. But few...

'Mr Fantasy, The Lyrics of Jim Capaldi' is a new edition of the book celebrating the work of Traffic and its late founder, Jim Capaldi. At the book launch, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant shared his fond memories of the lyricist and drummer.