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Erik Scott's ''Other Planets'' Released This Month -

Erik Scott's Other Planets is released this month.

There have been a lot of virtuoso electric bass albums released over the years. Musicians like Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke tried to become gunslinging front men with an instrument that's usually holding down the bottom end of a groove. But bassist...

Marcus - More than three decades after first bursting onto the New York music scene, Grammy-winning bassist Marcus Miller is still a vibrant presence in R&B and jazz. At any particular point in time he might be functioning as a producer, composer, arranger, or performer - and sometimes all at once. That's...

Jazz fusion - Jazz fusion (or "jazz-rock fusion" or "jazz-funk" or "fusion") is a musical genre that merges elements of jazz with other styles of music, particularly pop, rock, folk, reggae, funk, metal, country, R&B, hip hop, electronic music and world music. Fusion albums — even those that are made by the same...

The Anthology - 'Jazz fusion' might be an expletive to many, but if you're looking for an authentically pioneering example, this quintessentially seventies band is pretty much archetypal. Like so many bands of their era, they've just reformed and are touring in support of this remastered and remixed collection, drawn from the four...

John Scofield, Piety Street -

Modern jazz guitarist John Scofield has played alongside greats of the genre including Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, and Billy Cobham, bending his strings to a diverse range of styles with flexibility and technical flair. On Piety Street, however, Scofield turns his attention to a parallel 20th Century American popular music...

Record Of The Year Grammy: Robert Plant & Allison Krauss -

Morgan Freeman took the Grammy stage to introduce Kenny Chesney, who performed some country song. Not sure which one, this was the moment I paused to write this and fast-forwarded through the song. Not a fan of country, but if you’re a regular reader, you already knew that.

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