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I think now, they've labeled it fusion, but actually, back then they called it jazz-rock, which is pretty much what it was--jazz with rock influences.
Mike Ragogna: Return To Return To Forever: Chatting With Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, Plus John Common and Author Dr. Tony Youn Mike Ragogna 2011
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I think now, they've labeled it fusion, but actually, back then they called it jazz-rock, which is pretty much what it was--jazz with rock influences.
Mike Ragogna: Return To Return To Forever: Chatting With Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, Plus John Common and Author Dr. Tony Youn Mike Ragogna 2011
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I think now, they've labeled it fusion, but actually, back then they called it jazz-rock, which is pretty much what it was--jazz with rock influences.
Mike Ragogna: Return To Return To Forever: Chatting With Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, Plus John Common and Author Dr. Tony Youn Mike Ragogna 2011
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I think now, they've labeled it fusion, but actually, back then they called it jazz-rock, which is pretty much what it was--jazz with rock influences.
Mike Ragogna: Return To Return To Forever: Chatting With Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, Plus John Common and Author Dr. Tony Youn Mike Ragogna 2011
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So I tried to reconnect people who are supposed to hate each other, joining up people from bebop, free-jazz, pop backgrounds, electronics, jazz-rock.
London jazz festival: the grand nationals John Fordham 2010
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While bantering, the three were listening to a jazz-rock track by Weather Report, which Mullova's husband, cellist Matthew Barley, was thinking of arranging for an album.
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Raja's work can suggest familiar jazz-rock fusion licks at first, but his eastern influences soon surface in episodic melodies punctuated by dead halts, percussive bass clamourings, and swooping violin lines from the vivid Pascal Roggen, but also in fragile and whimsical slower pieces.
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Granted, you can hear some smooth jazz in the presentation and, as a result, I would call this more jazz-pop than jazz-rock.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Midweek Music Moment: Aja, Steely Dan » Print 2009
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She also collaborated with musicians, forming a jazz-rock group called “Her Kind” that added music to her poetry.
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For this Edinburgh Jazz Festival highlight, Oström's group will explore pumping electronics that power ringing melodies, plus wistful pop or hymnal themes, and a good deal of jazz-rock propulsion and whirling wah-wah guitar.
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