Chick Corea Electric Band

This is the best fusion band ever!

You're right, it shouldn't matter, but I make the distinction because a lot of jazz historians have a very "Afrocentric" approach to jazz and claim that White Americans can't play it as well; for example in the Ken Burns series on Jazz white musicians were ignored. Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Miles Davis were amazing geniuses but so were Gershwin, Bill Evans, Chet Baker etc. and many of the best jazz musicians today like Corea and Jarrett are white.

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no its jazz fusion :P

oh god damn thats awesome.....

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when i first started trying to figure all the genres of jazz out so that i could understand what i was trying to do, that was my first guess as well. basically unless the term fusion is used after another genre eg. 'rock fusion' (an example of which is the band "Karizma") it is basically the term used for contemporary jazz. otherwise it can be used to fit it's purpose "a fusion of latin and rock" (e.g. santana maybe?)

pat Metheny mixes with a lot of things like ambiental songs, McLaughlin mix it with the proggresive rock of the 70'...but...when you call the contemporanry players fusion you are calling a second term..."Avant-garde", it's like the "destroy, erase and improve" that was talking Meshuggah...it's the renewal of the arts, it's the same fusion but with new influences...i don't know if you get the point...=P

when you name somethinl like "fusion" you have to consider a lot of things. First, the termn "fusion" it's quite imprecise, maybe subjective, but every fusion player has something in common, it has jazz roots. Contemporary jazz players like Guthrie Govan, Cynic, Exivious even Coprofago had something in comon, and every one is a great Fusion intepreter in theyr own styles. Santana it's a fusion player too, he had a lot of Latin Jazz influences, Mike Stern mix jazz with a smooth rock,

Contemporary really