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The Jazz Central theater serves as their rehearsal headquarters and the venue for the upcoming “CNY Jazz Central Presents: ...
keyboards that seem to have escaped from a secret laboratory of ‘80s sitcom theme songs, and bass lines that make a percolating-popcorn noise. Jazz fusion is the only form of secular music for ...
David Sanborn, a musical chameleon whose wailing alto saxophone helped shape the sound of jazz fusion in the 1970s and ’80s, as he sold millions of albums while adding his touch to the ...
In the 1970s and ’80s, Shorter co-led Weather Report, the premier jazz-fusion band, with Joe Zawinul. In the 21st century, Shorter convened an acoustic quartet that was a fitting heir to Davis ...
With inspirations from “Mario Kart” to Louis Cole, Super Groove Technology aims to bring heart to jazz fusion. “It (the band’s music) is like CASIOPEA meets Louis Cole meets Vulfpeck ...
His ability to combine technical proficiency with accessible melodies made him a significant figure in jazz fusion during the ...
The instrumentation seemed to connect Kneebody to the Southern California jazz/rock fusion legacy of bands like the Yellowjackets, “but our references are different. The music we fell in love ...
led jazz toward the avant-garde, eventually midwifing the fusion subgenre. As styles evolved in the ’70s and ’80s, Shorter’s own group, the Weather Report, steered and pursued various ...
Reporter Jazz fusion legend Roy Ayers, who wrote the song “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” has died at 84 after a long illness. “It is with great sadness that the family of legendary ...
A jazz fusion band that is heavily inspired by Japanese jazz fusion and city pop of the 80s, and the subsequent video game music that came out from it. A blend of catchy melodies and high-energy ...