Jazz fusion
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Jazz fusion is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars and basses, a
Guitarist Larry Coryell
Trumpet player Miles Davis was a key figure in the development of fusion.
John McLaughlin performs during his Mahavishnu Orchestra period
Spyro Gyra combines jazz with R&B, funk and pop.
Smooth jazz
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Smooth jazz is a commercially oriented sub-genre style of jazz music by R&B, funk, rock and pop music styles.
Jazz fusion
…1970s, fusion expanded its improvisatory and experimental approaches through the 1980s in parallel with the development of a radio-friendly style called smooth jazz. Experimentation continued in the 1990s and 2000s. Fusion albums, even those that are made by the same group or artist, may include a variety of musical…
George Benson in Montreux 1986