jazz-rock
Noun
Meaning
jazz-rock (uncountable)
(music, jazz) A genre of rock music heavily influenced by jazz.
Alternative names
jazz rock
Examples
Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.
AllMusic states that the term jazz-rock "may refer to the loudest, wildest, most electrified fusion bands from the jazz camp, but most often it describes performers coming from the rock side of the equation."
Christian McBride (born 1972), one of the new "young lions" in the jazz scene, has won four Grammy Awards The experimental post 1960s era, and free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, produced several influential bassists.
In the 1970s and 1980s, with jazz-rock fusion guitar playing, jazz guitarists incorporated rock guitar soloing approaches, such as riff -based soloing and usage of pentatonic and blues scale patterns.
Often highlighted as the first true jazz-rock recording is the only album by the relatively obscure New York-based the Free Spirits with Out of Sight and Sound (1966).
Ceccagno soon left, however, to form a jazz-rock fusion band called Amulet.