His ability to combine technical proficiency with accessible melodies made him a significant figure in jazz fusion during the ...

The instrumentation seemed to connect Kneebody to the Southern California jazz/rock fusion legacy of bands like the Yellowjackets, “but our references are different. The music we fell in love ...

Les McCann, a musician who helped shape the “soul jazz” style of the 1960s with his earthy piano playing and singing and whose live recording of the antiwar anthem “Compared to What ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, Shorter co-led Weather Report, the premier jazz-fusion band, with Joe Zawinul. In the 21st century, Shorter convened an acoustic quartet that was a fitting heir to Davis ...

So did the twins. After all, the song sounded funny. That’s the thing about jazz fusion: it sounds ridiculous, and the central nervous system of any sentient creature will immediately recognize ...

Since hitting New York City in the late 1960s he’s been in the thick of the action, playing hard bop with Horace Silver, jazz/rock fusion with Dreams, and jazz/funk with the Brecker Brothers ...

Reporter Jazz fusion legend Roy Ayers, who wrote the song “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” has died at 84 after a long illness. “It is with great sadness that the family of legendary ...

co-founded the jazz fusion group Weather Report in 1970, and frequently partnered with fellow jazz legend Herbie Hancock, who is interviewed throughout the doc. “He was a genius,” Hancock says.

From 9:30 PM at the Brancaleone site, Hermes Studi d'Arte Associati will host this versatile quintet offering a performance straddling jazz and modernity, always balancing precise writing and ...

However, his 1977 album “São Paulo • Brasil” stands as a timeless masterpiece of Brazilian jazz-fusion and remains one of my all-time favorites. Blending the funk of Headhunters-era Herbie ...