Jazz-Rock

Jazz Rock is still a vibrant force in the musical world and is played by some of the planet's most talented musicians. Having survived for over 30 years without consistent major media support, the genre still attracts fans and musicians interested in instrumental integrity, improvisation, and a powerful groove. If you're not sure what Jazz Rock music is all about, click on the radio station links below (in bold) and give a listen!!!

Bands and Artists (131)

Articles (2)
Reviews (6)

Links:

FusionGroovin - Instrumental Jazz Rock Fusion Radio - Smokin' fusion, with a groove!
aTTeNTioN sPaN raDiO - The hippest, coolest mix of jazz, funk and rock instrumentals available on broadband internet radio.
Abstract Logix - Jazz, Fusion, World Music,Progressive - The Internet's most ambitous Jazz Rock website
Abstract Logix Radio - Abstract Logix streaming radio station - Jazz Rock Fusion at it's best!
Adam Holzman's Jazz Rock website - Jazz Rock website hosted by the Jazz Rock superstar keyboard player.
Al Garcia's Jazz Rock Website - The internet's most popular Jazz Rock site that features a great Jazz Rock Quiz
All About Jazz - The premier Jazz website including Jazz Rock
All About Jazz | The Web's Ultimate Guide to Jazz - A comprehensive list of Jazz Festivals around the world
Artwork For Musicians - "Spontaneous Image Improvisation"
Image manipulation custom designed for musicians using standard pictures and turning them into art.
Assembly Direct's Jazz Music - Scotloand - Black Bottle Islay Jazz Festival - Islay, Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival - Edinburgh
Atlanta Jazz Festival - The Atlanta Jazz Festival is regarded as one of the Country's largest free jazz festivals
Barbados Jazz Festival - Barbados, Caribbean
Bass Lessons - Italian site dedicated to bass lessons and more from Gaetano Ferrara (didatticadelbassoelettrico)
Berks Jazz Festival - Reading, PA
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival - The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is a four-day, multi-stage camping festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. Mainly a Jam Band happening, but there's a lot of crossover with Jazz Rock these days.
Capital Jazz Fest - Columbia, Maryland
Confusion the Fusion Band - This is the official site for the fusion band Confusion. Videos and audio files ,pics and bio
Copenhagen Jazz Festival - Copenhagen, Denmark
CyberFusion - Internet magazine for Jazz Fusion, containing CD reviews, interviews, live reports in Japanese and English.
Drumlab.net - Drumportal with Pictures, Interviews, Movies, Articles, Messageboard and a lot more. Information resource for Drummers
Earshot Jazz Festival - Seattle, Washington
FESTIVAL DE JAZZ VITORIA-GASTEIZ - Spain
FUSE LEEDS - Various Venues in Leeds, UK
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal - Montreal, Canada (The Montreal Jazz Festival)
Freihofer’s Jazz Festival at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center - Saratoga Springs, New York (After the page loads, click on link to Jazz Festival)
Fusion 101 - Fusion 101 brings you the best of the 70’s (and some of today’s) Jazz-Rock, Fusion and Progressive Rock.
Fusion Groovin - The internet's hottest Jazz Rock radio station
Fusion Music Masterpieces - A list of fusion albums by many artists. Detailed information is present for a few.
Guinness Jazz Festival - Cork, Ireland. Visit Ireland's biggest, best and longest running jazz festival
High Sierra Music Festival - High Sierra Music produces fun, unique festivals and concerts nationwide.
Home Grown Music - Primarily a Jam Band site, they also feature Jazz Rock jam bands such as Garaj Mahal, Derek Trucks, Aquarium Rescue Unit, etc.
I Festival Internacional de Jazz Villalba - Madrid, Spain
JVC - North Sea Jazz Festival - The Hague, Netherlands
JVC Jazz Festivals - New York, Newport, Miami Beach, Chicago, Concord - CA, Hollywood Bowl, North Sea, Paris - France, Warsaw - Poland, Tokyo - Japan
JVC New York Jazz Festival - New York, NY
JVC Poland Jazz Festival - Warsaw, Poland
Jam Camp - The spirit of the jam... Live recording... Musical communion. Jam Camp''s official website. Enjoy a band that really enjoys music. Experience synchronous musical epiphany. Welcome to Jam Camp!
Jazz Fest Wien - Vienna, Austria
Jazz Fusion CDs from Audiophile Imports - Audiophile Imports, importing and distributing hard to find jazz & fusion CDs from around the world since 1986.
Jazz Fusion, In The UK - The music? Jazz Fusion at its best from the underground London dance scene, Fusion, jazzfunk, jazz funk,Brazilian Jazz , Latin Jazz, Afro, Cuban, Funk and fast with it.
Jazz Middelheim - Antwerp, Belgium (Jazz Festival)
Jazz Open - Stuttgart, Germany
Jazz Prog Fusion - This ring is intended for extending the appreciation of, as well as furthering the growth of jazz rock fusion with its Progressive rock connections. It will focus mainly on guitar-driven fusion.
Jazz Rock Fusion - Surviving Four Decades and Counting... - Article by Jazz Rock World with contributions from John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Adam Holzman, Peter Erskine, Dave Liebman, and John Scofield
Jazz Rock Photo Gallery - The Internet's best collection of Jazz Rock images
Jazz Rock World - The home of Jazz Rock on the Internet
Jazz-Rock - Download MP3 Music for Free - Download.com Music/Jazz/Fusion/Jazz Rock
JazzRock-Radio.com - Jazz Rock Fusion radio, streaming mp3 files, band promo, music reviews. Rare, new, unreleased and live tracks culled from decades of virtuoso fusion around the globe. 100% PROMO FOR THE ARTISTS!!
Jazzis - Specialist on-line music store in Israel - We specialize in production of local artists, released on the Jazzis Records label, and in import and distribution of Compact Discs from many countries around the world. Jazzis has a diverse catalog, and if you look close you'll find some Jazz Rock.
Jerry Jennings Band - The MySpace page for this band with Fusion roots
Kaunas Jazz - Vilnius, Lithuania (Jazz Festival)
Kosmic Groove - Great site for archival Jazz Rock information
Kuumbwa Jazz - The great Jazz club in Santa Cruz California
Leeway's Home Grown Music Network - Leeway's Home Grown Music Network - Spreading the best music being made today! Focusing on liveand improvisational music including: jambands, jazz, funk, psychedelic,rock, blues, bluegrass, americana, live electronica, world and more!
Loyal Family Music Festivals - Zoe Jam - Salem - MO, Camp Zoe, Blue Moon Jam Fest - St. Louis - MO, Big Thumb Music Festival (Mostly Jam Bands, with some Jazz Rockers thrown in)
MOONJUNE RECORDS - Focus on progressive rock tinted with jazzy influences. Artists: SOFT MACHINE, SOFT WORKS, ELTON DEAN, TRIPOD, DFA, FINISTERRE, compilation TRIBUTE TO JACO PASTORIUS (GOSPEL FOR JFP III), and in the future FLASH, ARTI E MESTIERI and more.
McLaughlin, John [Archives] - A comprehensive resource for John McLaughlin including new releases, reviews, music, videos, photo images, posters, album covers.
Mt. Hood Jazz Festival - Jazz music festival in Oregon
Nice Jazz Festival - Nice, France
Ottawa Jazz Festival - Ottawa, Canada
Red Sea Jazz - Eilot, Israel
Richard Kolp - A great Jazz Rock website with a link to his great Jazz Rock radio station
Rochester International Jazz Festival - Rochester, NY
SFJAZZ Festival - San Francisco, California
SMILEFEST Music Festival - Deerfields in Mills River, NC. Mainly Jam Bands, but some Jazz Rock too..
SPIRAL QUEST - Katsuji Sudo's Page - Collection of Jazz Rock information in both English and Japanese.
STANFORD JAZZ WORKSHOP - Stanford Jazz Festival - Palo Alto, California
San Jose Jazz Society - San Jose, California
Scott's Jazz/Fusion Page - Pictures, information and interviews for several jazz and fusion guitarists.
Stockholm Jazz Festival - Stockholm, Sweden
Store: Audiophile Imports - Selling Jazz Rock on the internet since the 80's and good resource for all things Jazz Rock...
Tampere Jazz Happening - Helsinki, Finland
The Baked Potato - The famous Baked Potato Jazz Club in Los Angeles
The Catalina Bar and Grille - A Los Angeles Jazz and Jazz Rock club
The Guitar Channel - Streaming guitar-oriented radio station. Lots of Allan Holdsworth, Steve Morse, Scott Henderson, and many other great guitarists.
The Independent - A small San Francisco Club with some big name entertainment. Ozrik Tentacles and Garaj Mahal for starters...
The Iridium Jazzclub - One of New York's finest Jazz and Jazz Rock clubs. If you're in town - check them out.
The Jazz/Fusion Webring - The Jazz/Fusion Webring is for websites related to jazz, fusion, avant-garde, progressive, and other experimental forms of music. Hopefully, it will help gather more attention for these styles of music
The Jazz/Rock Fusion Page - Fan tribute to classic and modern jazz/rock fusion, with an introduction, history, links and an interactive quiz.
The Russian River Festivals! - Guerneville, California
Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival - Toronto, Canada
Umbria Jazz - Perugia, Italy
Unfretted - The Fretless Guitar Resource. - Unfretted - The Official Fretless Guitar (Jazz Rock and Well Beyond) Resource featuring; Hints and Tips, Artists, News, Reviews, Unfretted Dictionary, History of the Fretless Guitar, VG-88 patches, Pros & Cons, FAQs
Upbeat And More MP3Pro Online Radio Station - Live365 Internet Radio - - Todays Hot New Contemporary Jazz featuring,The Jon Barry Project,B.D. Lenz,Dave Osoff,Anthony James Baker,The Chris Geith Group and The Bill Hart Project. Todays Hot New Fusion Featuring,Daryl Stuermer,Derryl Gabel,Shawn Lane,Al Garcia,Tribal Tech,Alain Caron,Adam Nitti and Bill Connors. International Stars Like Alessandro Benvenuti,Mike Burn,Takashi Matsumoto,DimensionJazz and Viral Variations.
Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival - Clinton Lake Park - Lawrence, Kansas (Mainly Jam Bands)
Wanee Music Festival - Live Oak, Florida
We No Speak Jazz Rock Fusion Specialists - We No Speak is gone for good. Please visit their new website and update your links. Thank you.
Yoshi's at Jack London Square - One of the world's finest Jazz Clubs
aTTeNTioN sPaN raDiO - Attention Span Radio is one of the internet's oldest and best Jazz Rock radio stations.

Improvision - Setting the New Fusion Standard

This formidable power trio of Austrian guitarist Alex Machacek, 5-string electric bassist Matthew Garrison and drummer Jeff Sipe is impossibly intense, dripping with staggering virtuosity and fertile ideas and seething with the kind of raucous improvisational abandon that we haven’t seen since the heyday of Tribal Tech. For fans of acknowledged guitar monsters like Allan Holdsworth, Scott Henderson and the late, great Shawn Lane, the opening track of their new album says it all: "There’s A New Sheriff In Town." Machacek’s mind-boggling technique -- blazing speed, uncannily fluid lines and daring intervallic leaps -- is an obvious place to begin in singing the praises of this exciting new triumverate. But beyond the abundance of soloistic fireworks on Improvision provided by both Alex and Matthew, one of the most gifted and creative bassists on the post-Jaco scene, there is also a remarkable depth to the writing here, which comes across on harmonically sophisticated pieces like the atmospheric ballad "Very Sad," the compelling "Shona," the gentle, darkly alluring "To Whom It May Concern" and the gorgeous "Put Me Back To Sleep." Elsewhere, they exercise zen-like restraint on the freewheeling jam "Yoga For Cats, Part 1 and 2," then go for the burn on the aggressively slamming, chops-laden fusion showcase, "Gem1 and Gem2." And the astounding "Matt’s Riff," is a brilliant showcase for Garrison’s 21st century approach to the electric bass guitar. This stuff takes me back to the early ‘70s, to a time when creativity, concept and risk-taking were the watchwords in fusion music.

Bill Milkowski is a regular contributor to Jazz Times, Jazziz, Bass Player, Modern Drummer and Absolute Sound magazines. He is also the author of "JACO: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius" (Backbeat Books).

Produced by and available at: www.abstractlogix.com

Released:	September 18th, 2007
Formats:	CD
Genre:	Jazz Rock Fusion
Studio/Live?:	Studio
Label:	Abstract Logix
Distributor:	City Hall Records
Producers:	Souvik Dutta
Guest Musicians:	Alex Machacek - guitars, Matthew Garrison - bass, Jeff Sipe - drums

1	There’s a new Sheriff in Town
2	Along Came a Spider
3	Shona
4	Gem 1
5	Gem 2
6	To Whom It May Concern
7	Yoga for Cats Part 1
8	Yoga for Cats Part 2
9	Very Sad
10	Matts Rif
11	Put me Back to Sleep

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