Jazz fusion

Mm-hmm

... and then they changed it to jazz fusion, and they liked all that stuff.

You could swing, then you could go play some hardcore funk, then you could do this, and you could play some really intricate stuff, and they were all there.

And I've, I played the Detroit Jazz Festival many times.

And so

it made it easier for me to make albums like Listen, which is like my first fully composed... album of jazz fusion inspired and classical inspired compositions.

And then going somewhere is the first album where I started writing my own lyrics.

Cause I wanted to see what that would sound like and then explore my singing voice and, and, um, And then Bigger on the Inside, which is sort of my prog rock-influenced album.

I have been honored again at Chamber Music America support grant for a new trio with Chano Domingos, which is a very recognized or one of the renowned flamenco jazz pianists who brought jazz to the flamenco.

and uh he used to live in in the states but moved back to barcelona so and um he was highly recommended for many people and i'm i it's it's he's he's the father of flamenco piano jazz kind of and and uh it's a huge honor to to record with him and i also invited mina sinelu a percussionist who It's originally from Paris but played with Miles Davis and Sting and Lou Reed and I don't know, Stevie Wonder, like Gil Evans' big band, you know, and he's coming along and it's a really pleasure because Chano is now a very experienced seniority artist, and he recently told me that he's really looking forward to this project, and for a long time he hasn't been excited about any project, so it really touches my heart that he's excited about this, and for me it's a huge honor, especially having started flamenco and trying to apply it on trumpet as much as I can, understanding that I will never become a true flamenco musician, but I can learn and grow as an improviser and trying to fit in And I'm curious to see what will happen, because we will have, you know, Mino, who's also played in Weather Report, like Fusion Jazz, with maybe some flamenco influences, maybe Martinique, because he's originally from Martinique, Paris, but he lives in New York.

And then, you know, my little compositions, maybe write songs together.

So it's really exciting and an honor to work with such prestigious and highly recognized jazz artists as Sano Dominguez and Maínez.

Wow.

But how the hell is your jazz fusion band going to really take on Batman and the Robins? Can we stop?

No.

You have no chance.

Go home.

Jazz Fusion.

Jazz Fusion.

I'm still not mature enough to listen to

I had also highlighted something.

Is jazz really relevant today? Has it changed? Are we still changing? Or did it end in the 60s and 70s with the free jazz? with the Jazz Fusion.

And Nate's book really says it is more relevant today than it ever has been.

So we're going to look at this book.

Asia remains a landmark achievement in studio recording and songwriting, celebrated for its pristine sound, jazz-influenced complexity, and timeless sense of style.

So this album was released on September 23, 1977, and the genres are jazz rock, pop rock, blue-eyed soul, jazz fusion, and yacht rock.

And if you're listening along, which we do encourage you to do, there are 10 tracks on the album, and side one has three tracks.

So if you want to pause after the song Deacon Blues to listen to the halfway discussion, be sure to do that.

It's like, oh, this has been going for like five and a half, six minutes almost.

which is really that's pretty difficult to do to keep your attention or to not get bored with a song of that length as we know um yeah i mean i just i think this is pretty uh pretty great so far

yeah i mean like i said this is a widely considered to be a masterpiece um in the rock and roll world, in the jazz rock world, the jazz fusion world, whatever.

Um, the yacht rock world, I guess.

fusion,

right? So jazz fusion is when you play with an overdrive pedal

and

the snare appears on the two and the four, which drives jazz guys fucking crazy.

uh there yeah it'll go for like 45 seconds to a minute and then there'll be a little the snares starts to build up and like what were we doing back there Thank you.

Yeah.

Well, and you know, there's, there, there's 10 really nine songs on this record and, you know, for, for being jazz fusion and shreddy and, and you know, virtuosic there, there's only one that is over six minutes and then there's only, and then there's two more that are five 50 and four 47.

So it's not like it's, It's not like it's extended Jazz Odyssey all the time.

She's on the cover of Bitches Brew.

And she basically is responsible for helping something called Jazz Fusion exist because she was a rocker like Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone.

That was Betty Davis's community.

And she got married.