free of the limited musical styles he felt imposed by the jam, under the collective of the style council weller was able to experiment with a wide range of music, from pop and jazz to soul/r&b, house and folk-styled ballads. the band was at the vanguard of a jazz/pop revival that would continue with the emergence of bands like matt bianco, sade, and everything but the girl, whose members tracey thorn and ben watt contributed vocals and guitar to the 1984 the style council song "paris match".