The fusion of different styles of music has been an explicit goal of many musicians in the 20th century. In the early part of the 20C, many classical composers like Bela Bartok, Aaron Copland, Maurice ...

Jeff Lorber may not exactly be the father of jazz-rock fusion, but he was certainly in the neighborhood when it was conceived. What will probably surprise a lot of music fans is how much of those ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

In the second part of this series, I laid out my criteria for what would constitute a fusion of jazz and rock that remained true to both styles, which, in my definition, means that the resultant music ...