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    Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz...
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    known as The Jazz Crusaders) were an American jazz/jazz fusion group performing from the 1960s to the 2010s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders from...
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  • regular meter, beat and formal structures. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock music's rhythms...
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    Smooth jazz may be thought of as commercially-oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 1980s, displacing the more venturesome jazz fusion from...
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  • Jazz fusion, genre that combines rock and jazz, starting in 1960s Fusion dance, a type of partner dance that combines two or more dance styles Fusion...
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  • notable jazz fusion performers or bands. For performers of smooth jazz, a more radio-friendly, pop-infused variant of fusion, see List of smooth jazz performers...
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    World fusion Australian jazz Azerbaijani jazz Bossa nova British jazz Cuban jazz Dutch jazz French jazz Indo jazz Italian jazz Japanese jazz Jazz in Germany...
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  • Cumbia & Jazz Fusion is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded for the Atlantic label in 1977. It features two extended compositions written for the film...
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    with popular audiences preceding the rise of jazz fusion in the late 1960s and 1970s. Prominent names in fusion ranged from bop pianists including Bobby Timmons...
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  • mbaqanga and jazz. Mbaqanga originated in South Africa in the early 1960s. The genre itself is a fusion of traditional Zulu music, jazz, European and...
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  • Nu jazz (also spelt nü jazz or known as jazztronica, or future jazz) is a genre of jazz and electronic music. The music blends jazz elements with other...
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    during the mid-1970s. Similar genres include soul jazz and jazz fusion, but neither entirely overlap with jazz-funk. Early 60s James Brown created "pure funk"...
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  • (“Black Art,” 1965, Jihad). Music portal Jazz portal Free jazz European free jazz BYG Actuel ESP-Disk Jazz fusion Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives...
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    added the ii and vi chord quality would be identical. Jazz from the 1930s onward, jazz fusion from the 1970s onward and funk all have been seen to use...
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  • the hardcore style, began by attempting jazz fusion. Guitarist Joe Baiza executed his blend of punk and free jazz with Saccharine Trust and in Universal...
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    groove movement played obscure jazz records. Their interests were in the fringe of jazz fusion, jazz funk, and the soul jazz of 1960s. Particularly significant...
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  • subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...
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  • solo album by jazz fusion drummer Billy Cobham. The song "Stratus" appears in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV on the radio station "Fusion FM", as well...
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    increasingly influenced the genre with jazz fusion, a hybrid form of jazz-rock fusion which was developed by combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms,...
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  • Contemporary jazz may refer to: Smooth jazz, a musical genre that evolved from a blend of jazz fusion and easy-listening pop Jazz fusion, a musical genre...
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  • into the world fusion category, the suffix "fusion" in the term world fusion should not be assumed to mean jazz fusion. Western jazz combined with strong...
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    Majid Bekkas (category Jazz fusion musicians)
    Band, playing a fusion of Afro-American blues and Gnawa music. In the following years, he started to incorporate elements of jazz fusion into his own music...
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  • Lifetime, released in 1975 on Columbia Records. The New Lifetime was a jazz fusion band formed by the drummer Tony Williams with Allan Holdsworth on guitar...
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    moniker. These early albums showcased a funky sound influenced by other jazz fusion practitioners such as Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, and Return to Forever...
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  • Irakere's fusion of jazz and Afro-Cuban elements. They saw the Cuban folk elements as a type of nationalistic "fig leaf," cover for their true love—jazz. They...
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  • examples may also feature tropical flourishes or elements taken from disco, jazz fusion, Okinawan, Latin and Caribbean music. Singer-songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita...
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    "The Girl from Ipanema" (1962) and "Corcovado" (1962). The jazz fusion movement fused jazz with other musical styles, most famously funk and rock. Its...
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    The Headhunters (category American jazz ensembles)
    The Headhunters are an American jazz fusion band formed by Herbie Hancock in 1973. The group fused jazz, funk, and rock music. Hancock had grown dissatisfied...
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  • Jazz rap (also jazz hop or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre, that developed in the late...
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  • for Best Jazz Fusion Performance was an award given to a song or album for excellence in the jazz fusion genre, a combination of rock and jazz. It was...
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