Jazz Fusion (more info)

A few things I didn't get to mention in class. As the title implies, Jazz fusion is a type of jazz in which musicians attempt to expand the boundaries of jazz by incorporating elements from rock and other musical styles. Jazz/rock fusion combines the attitude and energy of rock with the harmonic sophistication and improvisational freedom of jazz. Filles de Kilimanjaro Columbia Records released the album in 1969. The June sessions featured Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on the electric Rhodes Piano, Rhodes is a jazz album by Miles Davis. It was recorded in June and September 1968, and on electric bass, and Tony Williams on drums. The September sessions replaced Hancock with Chick Corea, and Carter with Dave Holland. During the September sessions, Holland played acoustic bass and Corea played an RMI Elictrica-Piano in addition to acoustic piano.These are Holland and Corea's first known recordings with Davis. The album was produced by Teo Macero and engineered by Frank Laoico and Arthur Kendy. The album can be seen as a transitional work between Davis's mainly acoustic recordings with the Second Quintet and his later electric period Bitches Brew. However, author Paul Tingen points out that while Carter and Hancock played electric instruments at the first recording session, the later session was a bit of a throwback, in which Holland played only acoustic bass and Corea played both acoustic and electric piano. Stanley Crouch, a staunch critic of Davis' use of electric instruments, has described the album as "the trumpeter's last important jazz record. For Miles, there were several musical voices missing on Filles De Kilimanjaro, the main one being the guitar, which Miles now heard as an electrical instrument. He had already long been using Herbie Hancock on electrical piano, and now Chick Corea took that chair, replacing Herbie, who was ready to lead his own group. On the earlier Miles in the Sky record, Benson had sat on "Paraphernalia," and Miles had also experimented with guitarist Joe Beck on material that remained unreleased for several years. Benson's contributions on "Paraphernalia" are somewhat muted, but the overall tone of the recording reveals the influence of James Brown and Sly Jones.