Prog rock: the sound of history's future

Also, there is the fact that they are taking music that might be more influenced by classical, but it’s clear they are seeking out a pop audience, if that makes sense. They are not making a non-commercial music, if they were making a more classically constructed, symphonic music… But yeah, the influence of jazz, especially the postwar bebop and the weirder, more estoric jazz stuff can be seen as an influence.