The jazz-rock'n'roll, called sometimes jazz fusion , is current musical born at the end from the Années 1960, under the simultaneous impulse of the rocker Frank Zappa ( Hot Rats , 1969) and of the jazzman Miles Davis ( Bitches Brew , 1970).

Both mix with their own sensitivity the influences of the Jazz, the Rock, the Rhythm and Blues, the Soul music, the Funk and sometimes of the Classical music.

The jazz fusion is a typically instrumental music. The pieces are generally long, with long phases of improvisation, reasons and rhythmic signatures often complex, characteristics which one seldom finds in the other forms of Western music. Many musicians of jazz fusion are known to be virtuosos.

Some famous artists representatives of the jazz-rock'n'roll fusion

Guitarists

Bass players

Beaters

Clavierists

Trumpet players

Saxophonists

Vibraphonists

• Roy Ayers
• Gary Burton
• Mike Mainieri
• Benoit Moerlen
• David Patroit
• Dave Samuels

Percussionnists

• Manolo Badrena
• Lenny Castro
• Mino Cinelu
• George Jinda
• Dum Um Romao

Violonists

Flutists

• Bobbi Humphrey
• Dave Valentine
• This Van Leer

Groups

Some Reference books

• Jazz Rock'n'roll Fusion " The People The Music "

• By Julie Coryell and Laura Friedman
• ED. Hall Leonard

• Jazz Rock'n'roll has History

• By Stuart Nicholson
• ED. Canongate

• Extraordinary and tragic life of Jaco Pastorius

• By Bill Milkowski
• ED. In Folio

• Jazz Hot Encyclopedia " Fusion "

• By Guy Reynard
• ED. moment

• Power, Passion and Beauty - The Story off the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestrated

• By Walter Kolosky
• ED. Abstract Logix Books

Radios Internet diffusing jazz-rock'n'roll fusion

• JazzRock-Radio.com

• DinosaurusRecords.com

Sources

Related articles

• Smooth jazz
• Acid jazz
• Drunk jazz

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