The emergence of jazz-rock fusion in American music in the late 1960s was controversial. To some, those who played it were traitors to the cause of jazz. Others thought it has saved jazz from ...

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Global Resonances, the sixth solo album by jazz/world fusion bass guitarist & keyboard player Gino Foti, has been released by Net Dot Music, Inc. For this release, all keyboards and synthesizers have ...

Thundercat, who just released his awesome debut LP, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, on FlyLo’s Brainfeeder label, will bring his jazz fusion bass and hip hop beats to NYC on November 8 at Le Poisson ...

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 ...

Writers, scholars, radio hosts and musicians, including the bassist Ron Carter, share songs that shine a light on an instrument that lays the foundation of jazz. By Marcus J. Moore There’s a clip ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images You may have seen the 2014 documentary Jaco, produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. It's an ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Philadelphia's Best Of The Bass, Part 1 includes WRTI's 8 favorite bebop and hard bop players. The list of some of the most impactful bass players to have come out of Philadelphia continues with this ...

On March 16, at 7:30 p.m., six-time Grammy nominee Mike Stern will perform with Leni Stern (both on guitars), Bob Franceschini (saxophone), Noam Tanzer (bass) and Juan Chiavassa (drums). Using the ...

The return of the seminal “jazz fusion” sounds of the ’70s and ’80s are a national trend, and newly-formed quintet “Actual Proof” is riding the wave. The Jazz Central theater serves as their rehearsal ...