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- Gary Burton Quartet – Duster. Generally considered to be one of the earliest fusion albums, this 1967 LP finds legendary vibraphonist Gary Burton at the intersection of jazz and progressive rock, thanks in no small part to Larry Coryell’s acidic, blues-inflected guitar.
- The Free Spirits – Out of Sight and Sound. The way the Free Spirits are depicted on the cover of their sole album Out of Sight and Sound would probably lead the average listener to assume they’re a ’60s psych band.
- Frank Zappa – Hot Rats. Hot Rats is a curious album both in the canons of jazz-fusion and Frank Zappa. It isn’t broadly considered the peak of either; fusion would both be wiler and more satisfactorily rock-oriented elsewhere where Zappa would become both more avant-garde and more approachable on other records, more jazzy and less.
- Miles Davis – Bitches Brew. I felt a strong temptation to begin here by saying that Bitches Brew can be connected to every album here by just one degree.
Apr 1, 2019 · The rise of jazz-R&B-hip hop fusions in contemporary Los Angeles offers an opportunity to reflect on the ways jazz matters to black audiences today.
- Gabriel Solis
- 2019
Apr 18, 2022 · One of L.A.’s best free live music offerings, Jazz at LACMA has featured legit legends over its three-decade run at the museum. Seating for the program is avail.
Dec 18, 1999 · Grover Washington Jr., one of the most popular saxophonists working in the jazz-fusion idiom, died Friday evening after collapsing at a television taping in New York. He was pronounced dead...
The 2024 season launches Saturday, June 22 (6-10 pm), with a fantastic opening night: a night of Cumbia with Vilma y La Sonora, La Diabla, the Cumbia Fever DJs, and Classical Around Town, co-presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Levitt LA Summer Concert Series is open and free to everyone!
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Oct 9, 2023 · Benny Goodman's Historic Carnegie Hall Concert: In 1938, Benny Goodman, along with his integrated band, performed at New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall. This concert was a landmark event in jazz history, signaling the acceptance and recognition of jazz as a legitimate art form.
