Has any band successfully blended alternative/indie rock with jazz?

[drunk on kool aid]

May not be what you are looking for but Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart were very early brewmasters in mixing jazz (along with a bunch of other stuff) with rock. The music is alternative by any definition.

However, for the contemporary model, I can't believe no one's mentioned Minutemen, whose "Double Nickels on the Dime" may have pioneered the jazz/rock/punk/funk blend before there were terms like alternative and indie. Also their fellow SST labelmates, Saccharine Trust and Universal Congress Of.

Some of John Zorn's Naked City might interest you.

[Kiravell]

Ha I'm trying to find if there are any artists who do this as well (besides myself) A lot of the suggestions seem to lean more towards the avant garde/jazz side. I think this is more indie with hints of jazz...

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[Mr.Gomar Holnyuk]

Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Supertramp, Yes,

Santana - his 70's and 80's albums fused jazz with rock, latin, synth-pop into some jazz-fusion mesh.

John McLaughlin,
ELO,
Chick Corea

[sskink]

Originally Posted by drunk on kool aid

May not be what you are looking for but Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart were very early brewmasters in mixing jazz (along with a bunch of other stuff) with rock. The music is alternative by any definition.

And in the era after Zappa, Joe Jackson successfully melded jazz riffs/themes into a number of indie/pop songs, starting with Night and Day (although he'd worked a few short jazz bits into earlier songs). Had Jackson started his career in the 90s, he'd have been labeled "indie", not "new wave".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31rFRJByxQ

[Taiko]

My first thought was Joni Mitchell one one side and the many Jazz Fusion acts on the other in the early and middle 1970s