Bassist Miroslav Vitouš, a founding member of Weather Report, helped shaped the electric jazz landscape with his musical ...

We are very excited to have taken this new step to highlight the beautiful fusion of flamenco jazz and to build bridges between cultures through music. Japan is a country with a deep artistic ...

"Jazz-rock fusion . It's a tag, a label from the 1970s that can still provoke impassioned arguments from all sides—pro, con and every stop in between. Not to mention the way the debate was, for a long ...

On the landmark 1973 album Head Hunters, keyboardist Herbie Hancock led an ensemble consisting of woodwinds player Bennie Maupin, bassist Paul Jackson, drummer Harvey Mason, and percussionist Bill ...

Much discussion about Indo-jazz fusion rightly focuses on American jazz musicians of Indian heritage. Musicians like Vijay Iyer, Rez Abbasi and Rudresh Mahanthappa have incorporated study of their ...

Chick Corea, the Grammy-winning pianist and keyboardist whose work at the intersections of jazz, experimental music, funk, progressive rock and classical music with his band Return to Forever helped ...

When Maria sang, “how do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?” in the Sound of Music, she was probably talking about Harini Iyer. Her hair is slicked back with a pastel bandana and a flowy shirt. Her ...

In the jazz fusion era of the 1970s, a new breed of jazz superstar was born: the electric bassist. Although electric bass wasn't unheard-of in jazz before jazz-rock fusion, it quickly became an ...

Grammy-nominated jazz fusion band Hiroshima will perform at Detroit’s Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre on July 23. The band, known for incorporating the Japanese koto, is returning after a two-year hiatus ...

Modern jazz artists are reshaping the genre, blending traditional elements with contemporary influences like hip-hop, R&B, and electronic music. These musicians are pushing the boundaries of jazz, ...