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  1. May 15, 2024 · This list features the best jazz fusion artists and groups of all time, as voted by jazz fans worldwide. Rising to prominence during the 1970s, jazz fusion is an inventive and subgenre of jazz that blends together elements of R&B, funk, classical music, rock, world music, and sometimes even psychedelic music.

  2. May 10, 2024 · In 1969, he formed a trio, "The Tony Williams Lifetime," with John McLaughlin on guitar and Larry Young on organ. It was a pioneering band of the fusion movement, a combination of rock, R&B, and jazz. Their first album, Emergency!, was largely rejected by the jazz community at the time of its release.

  3. May 22, 2024 · Miles Davis (born May 26, 1926, Alton, Illinois, U.S.—died September 28, 1991, Santa Monica, California) was an American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s. Starting out.

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    May 23, 2024 · The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, whose members were white, were the first jazz group to record, and Bix Beiderbecke was one of the most prominent jazz soloists of the 1920s. The Chicago Style was developed by white musicians such as Eddie Condon , Bud Freeman , Jimmy McPartland , and Dave Tough .

  6. May 15, 2024 · In the 1970s, after playing in Davis’s first jazz-rock experiments, Hancock began leading fusion bands and playing electronic keyboards, from electric pianos to synthesizers. Compelling sound colours and rhythms, in layers of synthesizer lines, characterized jazz- funk hits such as “Chameleon,” from his best-selling Headhunters album (1973).

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  7. May 21, 2024 · The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin. 3.97 9,734 163. 3 November 1971. Jazz Fusion Jazz-Rock. Progressive Rock. instrumental technical energetic complex improvisation passionate spiritual warm.

  8. May 20, 2024 · Charlie Parker, American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, a lyric artist generally considered the greatest jazz saxophonist. Parker was the principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop, and he was one of the three great revolutionary geniuses in jazz.

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