It began innocently enough. One morning I was racing to get the twins to preschool, an endeavor that sounds as simple as driving from point A to point B, but which in fact (as parents know) tends to ...

Back in those days, I would wander through multi-tenant buildings in Nishi-Shinjuku, enduring the smell of suspicious incense ...

Ahhh, the 80s. Big hair, big synthesizer sounds and programmed beats. That didn't just happen with pop and rock, some of these trends seeped into contemporary jazz, too. This was the decade when much ...

Much discussion about Indo-jazz fusion rightly focuses on American jazz musicians of Indian heritage. Musicians like Vijay Iyer, Rez Abbasi and Rudresh Mahanthappa have incorporated study of their ...

The pianist, who died in February, was one of the founding fathers of jazz fusion – a deeply misunderstood genre. By Kate Mossman As a music critic, you spend a lot of time trying to find stuff to say ...

Chick Corea, the Grammy-winning pianist and keyboardist whose work at the intersections of jazz, experimental music, funk, progressive rock and classical music with his band Return to Forever helped ...

When Sonny Rollins released his Way Out West album in 1957, the cover featured the tall tenor saxophonist standing out in the desert between a bleached cow skull and a multi-armed cactus. In the ...

In the jazz fusion era of the 1970s, a new breed of jazz superstar was born: the electric bassist. Although electric bass wasn't unheard-of in jazz before jazz-rock fusion, it quickly became an ...

If you never had ears for Jimi Hendrix, if you had no use whatsoever for Cream, Led Zeppelin, James Gang, Frank Zappa, the Who, the Allman Brothers, Sly Stone or the Beatles, then you probably never ...

We welcome to Melbourne Jeff lorber Fusion with some of their recent recordings, and Melbourne band Synchronicity featuring Guitarist Jack Pantazis. Italian duo Lo Greco Bros, and Japanese band Jizue ...