Rock-Jazz Fusion, who created it?
Mangoman
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I mean who is credited for starting this? Miles Davis, Coltrane, Eddie Harris, Gil Evans, Jamal, Miles's band Hancock? Or has this been broken down on this site before? Jaco Pastorius described is music as Punk Jazz... , interesting... Who else would have described their music as Punk Jazz?...Also let's not for get the Vocalist of this time, Al Jarreau, Flora Purim, who else???? My mind is just seconds away from shutting down, hopfully we can colabarate soon...
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Killing it right now, son.
Oh, dear.
nuff said.
I remember reading somewhere that a review of "Songs Of Innocence", possibly in Downbeat, was responsible for the first use in print of the term "jazz fusion". I'd imagine that "jazz-rock" would probably have first been applied to Miles' work c. "Bitches Brew"/"Live Evil", but that came a little later.
Check out George Duke's Save The Country, The Fourth Way s/t, or early John Klemmer....
(also check out Joe Zawinul on Vortex and Steve Marcus Tomorrow Never Knows also on Vortex both from 1968,... and a wholelota 60's psychrock bands experimenting with jazz elements....)
Credit wise: Miles Davis took it to another level !
peace-
And don't forget the Free Spirits, featuring Larry Coryell. One album on ABC in 1967.
busted down the door, set the stage for all the major 'fusion' players from Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Gary Bartz, John McGlaughlin Herbie Hancock, and soooo many more. I am sure there may be some song, LP or artist some one can point out that establishes an earlier point of arrival, but Miles' contribution is the definitive one.
Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago went a long way toward bring all that stuff to the center and into the mainstream. A lot of rock bands employed jazz cats at that time too.
I really hate this crap for the most part...
This is one of the early lp's that came to mind...
Early fusion sound,... what about Chico Hamilton's El Chico album on Impulse, recorded August 1965
I don't hear anything particularly rockish on that album.
More like a progressive jazzlatin vibe, still the bassline riffs and Gabor Szabo's improvising sounds imo like elements of early fusion