Explorations of Jazz Fusion – Jazz Rock and Finding Connections to My Vinyl Collection

So a few days ago in my post about the sub-genres of jazz, I wrote that I still had some sub-genres to add to the mix. One of those sub-genres is Jazz Fusion/Jazz-Rock, which  rose in the late 60s, kinda’ peaked in the 1970s, but managed to extend into the 1980s and 90s and many musician’s music still  fit into sub-genre today!  This is probably the  sub-genre that I have least explored at least as far as jazz bands go. From Wikipedia….. Jazz fusion, fusion, or jazz-rock are variants of a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and…

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