Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TheGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Head Hunters” album signaled a funky turn in so-called jazz music and stood out from the ...

Stop if you’ve heard this before. Some refugees from bands join together to form an ad hoc “super group” that sounds pretty much like the outfits they came from. OK, so WRD’s model is as clichéd as ...

Ironically, fusion was, on the one hand, largely a concern for jazz participants and observers even though they largely denied its value or any valid connection to "real jazz." On the other hand, ...

The fusion of different styles of music has been an explicit goal of many musicians in the 20th century. In the early part of the 20C, many classical composers like Bela Bartok, Aaron Copland, Maurice ...

Muse Records’ hard-to-find jazz fusion titles by Catalyst and Carlos Garnett are back on 180-gram vinyl with audiophile mastering and premium pressings. Founded by veteran executive Joe Fields, Muse ...

St. Philip’s Friends of Music is wrapping up its concert series, “Summer Sizzlers: Cool Hot Jazz for the Summer,” over the next few weeks. First up on Sunday, Aug. 20, is the high-octane fusion of ...

The multifaceted George Duke Fusion/Funk Band brings its genre-bending sound to Hollywood for a three-night stand, just in time to celebrate Duke’s own birthday. Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 W. Sunset ...

Funky Fly Project, a jazz/funk fusion combo made up of a talented group of young men aged 13-20. Here they are performing "Deja Vu," recorded live on April 6, 2019 at The Lighthouse Project located in ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, vibraphonist Roy Ayers began mixing funky elements of rhythm and blues with jazz, and almost single-handedly created a "fusion" style of music that caught the ear of the post-hippie ...