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Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion[4]) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
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A Section
The A Section of a song is first section of a song. It’s also commonly referred to as the “Verse” of a song. In jazz, the A section is often 8 bars or 16 bars in length.
AABA
In the first half of the 20th century, the AABA song form was a popular song form in American music. AABA is typically a 32-bar form and is still common in jazz music.
Absolute Pitch
One’s ability to identify or re-create a musical note without the benefit of a reference tone is called absolute pitch (AP), also known as perfect pitch. Meaning, if you’re an AP possessor, you can accurately reproduce a sound you’ve just heard on your instrument with perfect pitch.
B Section
The B section refers to a part of a song form and typically comes after the A section of a song, often the chorus of a tune. This is common form in pop music too.
Backbeat
In 4/4 time, the backbeat is a beat that’s typically played on beats 2 and 4 and strongly accented. A basic drum groove will play the snare drum on the backbeat.
Backdoor
Also known as the Backdoor Progression. This is a common ii V I chord substitution. The Backdoor is a vi chord moving to a ♭VII chord and resolving to the I (tonic chord).
Cadence
A cadence is the end of a phrase that resolves the tension created by another section or line of music. A harmonic cadenceis the ending of a phrase, section, or piece of music. It always contains two or more chords. Rhythmic cadence is the way to signal the end of a phrase by using rhythmic phrases.
Cat
Short for Jazzcat. Meaning a hip person or a cool jazz musician. Also used to refer to someone that can play jazz.
Cell
A small rhythmic or melodic fragment is what it is. It is possible to use a cell as a developmental theme.
Diatonic
There are diatonic notes that are part of the key center. The non-diatonic notes are not part of the key center.
Digg
Slang that’s often used to say that you either really like something or understand something. You’ll sometimes hear a musician say, “I digg it.”
Diminished
A note that’s lowered by a half-step is often referred to as diminished. For example, a diminished 5th is a 5th that has been lowered by a half-step.
Embellishment
Sometimes referred to as Ornaments. An embellishment is a technique or musical device used to create variation with a melody. Some examples of embellishments are Grace Notes, Turns, Trills, Mordents, and Appoggiaturas.
Enclosure
Enclosures are a way to approach a target note, by surrounding the note from a step from above and a step from below. Meaning you’re approaching a note from above and below, or below and above, either diatonically or chromatically.
Enharmonic
Same note, different spelling.
Fake Book
Also called “The Real Book.” A collection of jazz charts that a jazz musician can use to “fake it” if one doesn’t know a tune.
Fill
A musical phrase in between the melody to keep the listener’s attention.
Free Jazz
Free Jazz is a kind of jazz that tried to break from the old traditions of jazz and create something entirely new. The freedom to experiment with your own creative impulses led to the birth of a new kind of art form, called Free Jazz.
Go out
In other words, play notes outside of the key center. See “Playing Outside.”
Groove
Meaning the rhythmic feeling of the music. Can be used as a noun or a verb.
Guide Tone
Used for helping to navigate the chord changes. Guide tones are also provide melodic direction in your lines. Typically guide tones are created by the 3rds and 7ths of chords. The root, 3rd, and 7th of a chord is the essence of a chord, also known as a “Shell.”
Half-time feel
Altering the rhythmic feeling of a song, by playing the changes and/or melody twice as long. In other words, if chord changes are normally one measure in duration, a half-time feel would play the changes with a duration of two measures.
Half-diminished
A chord that’s often used for the ii chord in a minor ii-V-i chord progression. A half-diminished chord is a root, ♭3, ♭5, and ♭7.
Hard-Bop
Bebop is a style of jazz that was developed in the 1940s in the United States. Hard bopis an extension of bebop music that incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues.
The jazz-rock idiom gained one of the largest jazz audiences since the swing era ended in the mid-1940s. The style was also known as crossover because sales of the music crossed over from the jazz market to the popular music market.
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Aug 24, 2005 · But one thing that (nearly) everybody could agree on was that, however you define it and regardless of what you might think of it, jazz-rock fusion was launched deep into the mainstream by Miles Davis, with his end-of-the-sixties In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew — two recordings that electrified both the jazz and the rock worlds. From there ...
Fusion, or jazz-rock fusion, emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, blending jazz improvisation with rock music’s energy, electric instruments, and rhythms. Fusion bands often explore extended compositions, complex harmonies, and innovative sounds, pushing the boundaries of traditional jazz and appealing to a broader audience.
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