The greatest players in the world already know Jeremy Green. Mike Stern, Will Lee, Keith Carlock, Oz Noy, Tim Lefebvre and Jimmy Haslip ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The jazz-meets-funk musician inspired Pharrell Williams, Dr. Dre, and Kanye West. David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images Jazz fusion legend Roy Ayers, who wrote ...

Read A feature on Jazz/Rock and Fusion from the Tone Centre Label by Len Davis on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Radio & Podcasts coverage, artist features, and expert writing since 1995.

IntroductionDue to the influence of old media that is still immersed in the nostalgia of the 50s and 60s and cannot keep up ...

Ahhh, the 80s. Big hair, big synthesizer sounds and programmed beats. That didn't just happen with pop and rock, some of these trends seeped into contemporary jazz, too. This was the decade when much ...

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 ...

When Sonny Rollins released his Way Out West album in 1957, the cover featured the tall tenor saxophonist standing out in the desert between a bleached cow skull and a multi-armed cactus. In the ...

Much discussion about Indo-jazz fusion rightly focuses on American jazz musicians of Indian heritage. Musicians like Vijay Iyer, Rez Abbasi and Rudresh Mahanthappa have incorporated study of their ...