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Since its emergence in the late 60’s, jazz-rock fusion has been controversial. Jazz purists decry its use of rock styles, electronic instruments, and what they feel are its commercial pretensions. Yet ...

The nimble performer was a leading light in the hard-bop and jazz-rock fusion movements. By Gil Kaufman Wayne Shorter, one of the most admired and singular American jazz composers and saxophonists of ...

The Byrds weren’t attempting to sound jazzy. Instead, they wanted to incorporate some of Coltrane’s approaches into their music. Like any other genre of music, rock is constantly developing. In the ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the birth of jazz fusion, a combustive 1969 album ...

It began innocently enough. One morning I was racing to get the twins to preschool, an endeavor that sounds as simple as driving from point A to point B, but which in fact (as parents know) tends to ...

During an afternoon set on the last day of this year’s Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Julian Lage Quartet played a medley of “Solid Air” and “Omission.” Lage dedicated the two ...

When faced with the prospect of replacing an irreplaceable member of the band, Kneebody found a singular solution to the conundrum. Over the past two decades the Grammy-nominated group established its ...

The decision to place another festival right on top of Jazzfest highlighted how much has been flipped upside-down in jazz over the past 20 years. By Giovanni Russonello Back in 2005 — when the first ...

Hal Leonard had announced the release of "Jazz-Rock Guitar Improvisation: Modal Systems, Modern Chords, And Musical Freedom", an inspiring new instructional guide from acclaimed TESTAMENT guitarist ...