Fusion Jazz

This is the birth to death date of miles davis. During this period, Miles davis developed his first appreciation towards music by listening to the gospel music in the black church when he was a kid. His mother has also encouraged him to play piano. Later on he went to the Juilliard music school, he first started as a bebop musician than slowly transformed fusion.(wikipedia)

contribution: Miles Davis is regarded as one of the most innovative, influential and respected figures in the history of music. He has been described as “one of the great innovators in jazz”. (wikipedia). Miles Davis demonstrated the will of the people through his music, and uses a lot of personal experiences. Also, Miles Davis, fought against oppression at that time by creating music for the general community. His music has also played a huge part during the civil right movement. (Jess).

Chick corea was born in June 12, 1941. There are no death date as he was still alive until today. Corea’s early music career was highly influenced by his dad who’s a jazz trumpet player in a band. He then started playing gigs in his high school, which eventually leads to playing gigs with professional musicians and recording albums. (Wikipedia). Through out his career, Corea was influenced mostly by Bud Powell. (Dilliberto)

Contribution: “No musician has used the fusion concept with more variety, intelligence and unimpeachable taste than Chick Corea.” —Len Lyons, jazz author and critic (Sabatini). This s kind of influence that Corea has in his genera, and he has influenced musics such as post bop, latin, free form, and avant-garde jazz since 1960s. He has also has huge influences on keyboard and piano playing in the modern era. (allaboutjazz.com)

Fusion was started in the late 1960s by a cuban musician Mario Bauza when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and latin jazz. During this time many jazz musicians began experimenting with electric instruments and amplified sound for the first time. (wikipedia)

During the popular years of fusion jazz, each year has a different type of fusion jazz. For example, during the 60s (miles davis) fusion jazz conbines jazz, rock and electric, during the 70s fusion jazz were more about instruments such as drums, pianos and saxophones, during the 80s and beyond fusion jazz became a complete mixture of jazz and rock, which is when the name jazz-rock was made. (gracia)

Between 1967 and 1968, protean trumpeter Miles Davis felt a need to change his music style, so he begin to try a a new music style by combining several jazz styles together. (gracia)
Miles davis published his first fusion jazz album, in the silent way, setting a start to the gener. (wikipedia)
Six months after Miles Davis realised the In a Silent Way, Miles recorded what was to become the defining document of the jazz-rock movement, Bitches Brew. Released in 1970, Bitches Brew became the fastest selling album in jazz history. With its mixture of jazz, rock and electronics, it inspired countless imitations.(Gracia)

Chick corea was one of the "next generation" fusion artist. And he has won a lot of awards during this period both as a soloist and in a group. His Fusion jazz work includes "Return to forever", but most of his work is himself playing an instrument with someone else singing the vocal part.Corea's fusion materials mostly combined jazz and flamenco, supported by Minimoog backup and a powerful horn section. (wikipedia)