Jazz Articles about Boundry Issues

Boundry Issues: Beginnings And Endings

by Mark Corroto
August 1, 2000

There was something wrong with jazz-fusion of the 1970s and 80s. You could just instinctively feel it. But what was missing? After Miles Davis ushered in electric instruments (or was it the electrocution of jazz?) with Bitches Brew, the doors flew open to all sorts of characters. There was the electric violin of John Luc Ponty, Stanley Clark’s thundering jazz-funk bass, and even an electric saxophone played by Eddie Harris. Jazz had become what rock made readily apparent, talent and ...