"Jazz-rock fusion . It's a tag, a label from the 1970s that can still provoke impassioned arguments from all sides—pro, con and every stop in between. Not to mention the way the debate was, for a long ...

The emergence of jazz-rock fusion in American music in the late 1960s was controversial. To some, those who played it were traitors to the cause of jazz. Others thought it has saved jazz from ...

The mostly black dancers wore baggy suits, white shirts and braces like the 1930s jivers at Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom, the Forties mambo-niks at Manhattan’s legendary Palladium Ballroom, and hats like ...