Jazz Articles about The Led DeMerle Transfusion

The Led DeMerle Transfusion: Transfusion One

by Dave Nathan
February 1, 2001

In July of 1969 Miles Davis recorded Bitches Brew which became the clarion call for a new type of music called fusion. In an attempt to mix the improvisation of Jazz with the raucous (and loud) rhythms of Rock, Davis, the Weather Report and other groups flung this musical marriage upon the public and other jazz musicians alike. Drummer Les DeMerle formed a group Transfusion and recorded this fusion album in 1976. Their excursion down the fusion road is done ...