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Which album started jazz-rock fusion?

Jeremy Anderson

Which album started jazz-rock fusion?

Bitches Brew
In 1970 trumpeter Miles Davis released Bitches Brew, a landmark album that melded jazz, rock, and other elements into a sound that came to be known as “fusion.” But even before Bitches Brew, fusion was beginning to churn, with young jazz musicians such as Gary Burton, Larry Coryell, and Steve Marcus incorporating the …

Why is fusion jazz controversial?

Fusion became quite controversial within the Jazz community, with some saying “Fusion and electric Jazz were not real Jazz”. Jazz has reflected current culture all along, but when it became Fusion, it set off a firestorm alienating many fans who favored traditional or acoustic forms of the music.

Who is known for cool jazz music?

cool jazz, a style of jazz that emerged in the United States during the late 1940s. The term cool derives from what journalists perceived as an understated or subdued feeling in the music of Miles Davis, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Gerry Mulligan, Lennie Tristano, and others.

What are your top five favorite jazz fusion albums?

I would start with anything by Soft Machine.

  • Tribal Tech is not especially well-known.
  • The German group Passport,led by saxophonist Klaus Doldinger made a number of great albums in their heyday,although their later ones were not to the same standard.
  • Early albums by Software,especially this one: Software – Software – Amazon.com Music.

    • What are the best jazz albums for a beginner?

    Miles Davis: Kind of Blue. Kind of Blue (1959) is the top jazz album on most ‘best-of’ lists and is cited as jazz’s biggest-seller.

  • John Coltrane: A Love Supreme. This 1964 classic takes the form of a four-part suite: ‘Acknowledgement’,‘Resolution’,‘Pursuance’ and ‘Psalm’.
  • Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um.
  • Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come.

    • What are the greatest jazz fusion songs?

    Lingus (We like it here)

  • Thing of Gold (Ground UP)
  • Quarter master (Ground UP)
  • What about me (We like it here)
  • Young stuff (Ground UP)

    • What are the best ‘fusion’ music bands?

    – Led Zeppelin (In raw talent alone they dominate the scene. – The Beatles (Nothing more needs to be said about the Beatles.) – The Rolling Stones (They are one of the first bands that comes to mind when Rock is mentioned. – Pink Floyd (A lot of people don’t understand Pink Floyd, but they managed to create complete albums of phenomenal music.) – The Who (Like Z