JAZZ FUSION - The Summer Season Episode 2

It’s JAZZ FUSION WEEK!! Jazz fusion is a music genre that
developed in the late 1960's when musicians combined jazz harmony
and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in
rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly
those who had grown up listening to rock and roll.


Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ
groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a
simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions,
unconventional time signatures, or melodies with
counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex,
typically include improvised sections that can vary in length,
much like in other forms of jazz.


As with acoustic jazz, jazz fusion also employs brass and
woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other
instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is
less likely to use an acoustic piano and double bass, and more
likely to use electric guitar, synthesizers, and bass guitar.


Here is the music we’ll be exploring in this episode. I DO NOT
OWN THE RIGHTS TO ANY OF THIS MUSIC. 


Freight Train Shuffle – The Players


Trains – Steps Ahead


Tutu – Miles Davis


Dr. Hee – Tribal Tech feat. Scott Henderson


Tower of Inspiration – Dave Weckl


Growing – John Patitucci


Some Skunk Funk – Brecker Brothers


Minuano (Six Eight)" – The Pat Metheny Group