Quotes About Jazz Fusion

“I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.”

— Edgar Winter

“I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.”

— Andy Summers

“Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.”

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

“After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.”

— Gunther Schuller

“There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.”

— Gary Burton

“Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!”

— Christian Scott

“Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.”

— Dave Brubeck

“Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.”

— Patrick Stump

“I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.”

— Al Jarreau

“There are no great jazz-fusion bands.”

— Prince

“Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.”

— Brian McKnight

“In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort of have this fusion/soul/R&B/folk music kind of thing. We've been keeping it low-key and opening for some friends.”

— Jake Epstein

“I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United States. Because I think most people think they're going to be in Green Day or whatever, and you actually have to learn about music you don't care for, too. I mean, I cared for a great deal of music; it's just that I didn't want to submerge myself into the well of fusion jazz.”

— Brendon Small

“When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead jazz with people like Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley; he's played a lot of fusion with his own groups, with Stanley Clarke; and, you know, he did the rock thing with Frank Zappa. He's written all kinds of big arrangements for people like Burt Bacharach. So, he's covered the board. He's still a great pianist.”

— Christian McBride

“Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music ...”

— Kurt Rosenwinkel