Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about Marsalis' career is not his personal success. It is the fact that, largely under his influence, a jazz renaissance is flowering on what was once barren soil. Straight-ahead jazz music almost died in the 1970s as record companies embraced the electronically enhanced jazz-pop amalgam known as fusion. Now a whole generation of prodigiously talented young musicians is going back to the roots, using acoustic instruments, playing recognizable tunes and studying the styles of earlier jazzmen, from King Oliver and Louis Armstrong to Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. Moreover, with major record labels rushing to sign...
...seminars, he tirelessly proclaims the "majesty" of the jazz tradition and inveighs against those who, in his view, are selling it out to the forces of "commercialism." His particular bete noire has been his early idol Miles Davis, whom Marsalis once accused of being "corrupted" by his move into fusion, sparking a bitter public feud between...
...great divide in American jazz took place after World War II, with the emergence of the bebop movement, spearheaded by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie ("Bird") Parker. By the '60s, bebop had largely given way to experimental avant-garde styles. When fusion took over in the '70s -- although some musicians were still playing earlier styles -- many jazz fans began to bemoan the death of a great American tradition...
Precisely. Wynton's musicianship, already on a world-class technical level when he first hit New York, has continued to develop and mature. Though his early influences -- Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard and pre-fusion Miles Davis -- are still discernible in his playing, he is increasingly forging his own sound. Since leaving Blakey to form his own band in 1981, he has released a total of 12 jazz albums, and he has enough material in the can to fill eight or 10 more. On the classical side, he has done five recordings, and is now working on a baroque album with...
Scholars will pay special attention to the new fusion of religion and politics espoused by Black leaders such as the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, said conference co-chair Preston Williams, Houghton professor of theology and contemporary change at the Divinity School...