Fifty years ago this month, Columbia Records issued Miles Davis’s churning “Bitches Brew,” confronting two genres of music and crystallizing a third, jazz-rock fusion. It was a potent ...

Chick Corea's work with fusion group Return to Forever and with collaborators such as Miles Davis and Stanley Clarke spliced jazz with funk, rock and more.

Chuck Mangione is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter, and composer, best known for his smooth jazz sound and crossover success in the 1970s. He was born on November 29, 1940, in Rochester ...

Keyboardist-composer Chick Corea, who attained stardom as a jazz fusion pioneer, died Tuesday from a rare form of cancer. He was 79.

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 ...

The keyboardist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea — one of the most revered figures in contemporary jazz, but an artist whose work spanned fusion to classical — died on Feb. 9 at age 79.

To the Editor: In “Ken Burns’s ‘Jazz': Beautiful Music, but Missing a Beat” (The Review, December 15), Krin Gabbard touches on one of the weaknesses of the PBS documentary: a virtual ...

Take a crash course in jazz-rock fusion guitar with Italian maestro Luca Mantovanelli. Luca Mantovanelli. Wed, August 14, 2024 at 9:31 AM UTC. 3 min read.

Legendary musician Wayne Shorter co-founded the American jazz fusion band Weather Report. AFP via Getty Images. Shorter was a dynamic saxophonist who originally began his career playing tenor, but ...

Frequently favoring jazz dance and other pop-culture forms like tap, ballroom, and hip-hop, the Dance Chicago festival has been anchored ever since it started in 1995 by River North Chicago Dance ...

American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who wrote some of jazz's most acclaimed compositions and whose often plaintive playing changed the sound of jazz in the 1960s before he explored rock-fusion ...

Music Industry Drummer Andrea Dionisi: Redefining European Jazz Fusion. Source: All About Jazz March 23, 2025. European jazz fusion has found a unique voice in Andrea Dionisi, a 31-year-old Italian ...