Originally Posted by Wikipedia

A fusion genre is music that combines two or more styles. For example, rock and roll originally developed as a fusion of blues, gospel and country music. The main characteristics of fusion genres are variations in tempo, rhythm, i a sometimes the use of long musical "journeys" that can be divided into smaller parts, each with their own dynamics, style and tempo. "Fusion" used alone often refers to jazz fusion.
Artists who work in fusion genres are often difficult to categorize within non-fusion styles, primarily because most genres evolved out of other genres. These artists generally consider themselves part of both genres. For example, a musician that plays predominantly blues influenced by rock is often labelled a blues-rock musician, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Vaughan, a Texas blues guitarist, used rock and blues together. Ray Charles, who recorded gospel and jazz-influenced blues, created what would become known as Soul Music. By fusing the two genres, Charles pioneered the style of country soul, most famously on his landmark album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, and influenced similar efforts by Candi Staton and Solomon Burke. Another example of fusion music can be heard in the Middle Eastern-influenced Franco-Arabic music as personified by Aldo. Franco-Arabic music uses a blend of Arabic and many western styles, from rock to pop, and from Euro styles to folk music. Jie Ma blends traditional Chinese instruments (pipa and ruan) and Western and jazz compositions.
Fusion music as a genre broadened the definitions of jazz, rock, and pop music. Herbie Hancock fused jazz, funk, rock, and smooth tones to accomplish a new, rounder, more cultured sound for his band. See Head Hunters or Thrust. These sounds generally consisted of a standard rhythm section: bass, drums, and sometimes guitar, with layered keyboard tracks of rhodes, strings, clavinet, organ and synthesizers. Atop all of this, sampling was introduced as well as new technologies such as the talk box, or vocator. Bands such as Brand-X and Return To Forever as well as musicians such as John Abercrombie and Jack DeJohnette are also in this category.

Originally Posted by fazstp (Post 1101691)

Terje Rypdal/ Miroslav Vitous/ Jack DeJohnette

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Track 2: Den Forste Sne

Originally Posted by Engine (Post 1134402)

with no hippie bullshit.

Originally Posted by Chumley (Post 1046078)

Originally Posted by fazstp (Post 1134404)

LOL. Did you have another Miles album in mind?

Originally Posted by Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra (Post 1134385)

One of the greatest genres to ever exist. Especially Jazz/Funk type fusion:

Originally Posted by tore (Post 1134503)

If you wanna hear an example of why the Hammond Organ is one of the coolest instruments ever played by keyboardists, just listen to the first 30 secs or so of Dreams Wide Awake (Hammond enters at about 20 secs in).

Originally Posted by fazstp (Post 1134404)

LOL. Did you have another Miles album in mind

Originally Posted by fazstp (Post 1134685)

That's an interesting piece. I must confess to being pretty ignorant of his work. That is some oversight on my part seeing he apparently debuted opposite Coltrane on the album The Avant Garde?

Originally Posted by fazstp (Post 1134685)

That's an interesting piece. I must confess to being pretty ignorant of his work. That is some oversight on my part seeing he apparently debuted opposite Coltrane on the album The Avant Garde?

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Originally Posted by Engine (Post 1134710)

you NEED to get to know Don Cherry. Not only did he do that album with Coltrane but he's been an integral force on Ornette Coleman's best records and has played with the likes of Albert Ayler, Sonny Rollins and Sun Ra (I'm sure I'm forgetting some).

Originally Posted by Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra (Post 1134715)

However I highly HIGHLY recommend his next two albums 'Symphony for Improvisers', and 'Orient'. They are beyond sublime.

Originally Posted by tore (Post 1134503)

Originally Posted by fazstp (Post 1134389)

I'm going to keep plugging my favourite fusion album until someone actually listens to it :)

Originally Posted by Zaqarbal (Post 1134590)

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 1135098)

^ :laughing: Well, you`re right. That`s a restrained, but beautiful track. Is ECM the name of the album, the group, or just the record label ?

Originally Posted by tore (Post 1134423)

I'll start with an old favorite, Return to Forever's debut, generally credited as a Chick Corea solo album. Chick Corea had played with Miles Davis, but wanted to play music which was more inclusive and more listener friendly. The result was his own fusion band, Return to Forever.

Here are a couple of my favorite tracks from the album. The opener is the title track which has a very haunting opening theme worth listening to even if you don't have time for it's full 12-something minutes.