What was the concept of fusion music in the 1970's?

Answer 1

Fusion music as the name implies was an attempt to fuse elements of jazz and Rock Music. The defining elements of fusion were the improvisational nature borrowed from jazz married to the electrified and amplified sound of rock music. Fusion was also predominantly an instrumental form, focusing on the soloing and interplay of the musicians. One of the earliest examples of fusion music is regarded as the group Miles Davis the jazz trumpeter put together in the late sixties which was essentially a jazz group but instead of being played on acoustic instruments as jazz predominantly was up until that point, the music on the album B----es Brew was played on amplified electrified keyboards and Guitars at a loud volume a la rock music. From then on fusion music grew in popularity to include a whole generation of new bands in the early seventies which took from this starting point to grow into a whole new genre of modern music.