Jazz Articles about Robert Musso

Robert Musso: Innermedium

by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2000

Retro-jazz for a forty-something listener is not Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue or John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things both of which were recorded forty years ago. No, our jazz roots are fusion. Rock and Roll nurtured babies dug Jimi Hendrix before Jon Hendricks. We came to jazz through electric jazz and fusion. Bitches Brew (1969) was in our record collection before Milestones (1958). Ellington was passed over for Jaco Pastorious. Twenty years ago, fusion was condemned by jazz purists and ...