Fusion – Jazz with pop influences – is very controversial. You can summarise the controversy with one question: Is it still Jazz?
The programme-makers of North Sea Jazz aren’t worried about this question, though. Fusion is a definite main attraction, and it has brought forth many great musicians, just like any other subgenre does. Fusion has also brought forth many terrible musicians, but the programme-makers don’t invite them to play North Sea Jazz.
Today, we’ll listen to two concerts. First, we’ll listen to a concert from 1997 by Wayne Horvitz and his Zony Marsh; their music has a funk groove enriched with Hammond and guitar solos. The next concert is from 2002 and is a little more conventional, a bit more ‘jazzy’, but Rock is never far away with the German Frank Wingold who was raised in the Netherlands on electric guitar.
Summary of the programme
- Happens like that
- Sex friend
- Mel
- Cadillac
- Withdrawal symptoms
- The gift
- Daylight – Smiles
- Stuk één
- Movie move
- Layers
- Loose encounters
- Claude thought
- Fractal
- Die drei Stückwerke des Wunders
