Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion is a style that combines jazz improvisation and harmony with the electric instruments, volume and rhythms of rock and funk.
It emerged in the United States in the late 1960s, when jazz musicians took up electric guitars, electric pianos, synthesizers and bass guitar. Pieces are often long and instrumental, with complex time signatures, fast unison lines and extended solos over rock or funk grooves. Fusion is louder and more electric than acoustic jazz, and more improvised and technically demanding than the rock it borrows from.
Artists it is known for: Miles Davis, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Mahavishnu Orchestra.
- Family
- Jazz & Blues
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, late 1960s
- Also called
- fusion, jazz rock
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have jazz fusion among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Jazz Fusion artists
Masayoshi Takanaka
King Crimson
Miles Davis
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CASIOPEA
Makoto Matsushita
Frank Zappa
Camel
Bill Evans Trio
Kingo Hamada
The jazz fusion artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.