jazz rock fusion

The band Divje Jezero is known for weaving together different musical genres, with rock often colliding with other influences, which gives their sound a distinctive breadth. Two years after the release of their fourth…

Soft Machine, the legendary progressive rock outfit from the United Kingdom, are back on 13 March 2026 with a new studio album, “Thirteen”. The album single Green Books is out now, and you can stream it in full below. There's also a…

Simon Phillips, the drumming icon of the rock'n'roll and jazz fusion universe, a guy who's played drums for The Who, Mike Oldfield and Toto, and who has "rescued" albums for a huge number of artists in the studio with his skills, will…

Ralph Towner has died at the age of 85! Towner was an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. Among other things, he mastered the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet…

Janez Bončina BenčTuesday, July 22, 2025Postojna / Titov trg / Slovenia Benč's musical legacy is essential — let's just say it straight: must-have inventory in every Slovenian household. We're talking about musical art here, of…

Ghanaian jazz-rock fusion and progressive rock legends Osibisa have confirmed that founding member, vocalist and saxophonist Teddy Osei has died at the age of 88. In a statement on their Facebook page, the band wrote: "The members and…

Self-releasedRelease date: September 15, 2024Genre: Jazz / Jazz Rock FusionRating: 9.0/10 After three studio albums and one live record, the Prekmurje jazz and jazz rock fusion outfit džeZZva has decided it's time for its first…

Label: Celinka Release date: June 5, 2024Production: Divje jezeroAlbum length: 44.43 minGenre: Jazz Rock Fusion / Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Divje jezero are Slovenia's flagbearers of jazz rock fusion with progressive touches,…

The Wooten BrothersThursday, 9 May 2024, at 8:00 PMPortorož / Avditorij / Slovenia The Wooten Brothers' visit to Portorož's Avditorij delivered one of the concert highlights of the year when it comes to jazz programming in Slovenia.…

Self-releasedRelease date: November 26, 2022Production: Dejan Berden & džeZZvaAlbum length: 62.21 minGenre: Jazz/Jazz Rock FusionRating: 10/10BUY THE ALBUM! Four years is a bit of a gap in the studio-album biorhythm of džeZZva,…

Self-releasedRelease date: 13. 1. 2023Production: Simon MorazAlbum length: 41.50 minGenre: Jazz-Rock FusionRating: 10/10 Emil And The Detectives, a Slovenian sextet united in its devotion to the world tenets of jazz-rock fusion,…

Performers: Omega Sun / The Winery DogsLocation: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Sunday, October 29, 2023 The Winery Dogs back in Slovenia! The second visit of these three musical super-Conans — after that July appearance…

Label: Bizarre/Reprise // Zappa Records/Ume (50th anniversary reissue of the original album release)Reissue date: December 16, 2022 (on the 50th anniversary of the album's original release)Original release date: July 5, 1972Production:…

Jeff Beck, the legendary British guitarist, has died at the age of 78. According to an official statement posted on Beck's social media accounts by family members, the musician passed away after a short battle with bacterial meningitis. …

Venue: Pordenone / Parco San Valentino / ItalyConcert date: Wednesday, 20 July 2022 Unbelievable, but true. Jeff Beck, the ace of aces — the man many generously crown as the rock guitarist's rock guitarist — sharing a stage with…

Label: Phantom RecordingsRelease date: February 4, 2022Production: Simon PhillipsAlbum length: 52.29 minGenre: Jazz Rock FusionRating: 10/10 There's got to be “groove” here, after all. No limits. We're talking about the fifth album…

Label: Favored Nations / Mascot Label GroupRelease date: January 28, 2022Production: Steve VaiAlbum length: 46:41 minGenre: Art Rock/Progressive Metal/Guitar RockRating: 9.0/10 It's been a long, long time since the "little guitar…

Label: earMUSICRelease date: 8/27/2021Production: Robben Ford & Casey WasnerAlbum length: 39.37 minGenre: Jazz / Blues / Jazz-Rock FusionRating: 9.0/10 Robben Ford is a musician who needs no introduction. Globally speaking, he's…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 5/18/2007Production: Planet XAlbum length: 50.47 minGenre: Jazz Rock Fusion / Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 »Quantum« was the third and, at the time of writing this review, the latest album from…

Self-releasedRelease date: 3/3/2021Production: Dejan LapanjaAlbum length: 43.04 minGenre: Blues Rock/Jazz Rock FusionRating: 8.0/10 Matej Magajne Band is a quartet that's been around for two and a half years. Its founder, as you…

Label: Boing!Release date: 5/7/2021Production: The AristocratsAlbum length: 60.03 minGenre: Jazz Rock Fusion/Progressive Rock/Progressive MetalRating: 9.5/10 The Aristocrats are some of the best things to happen in the world of…

Label: Evil Ink RecordsRelease date: July 29, 2016Production: Tom MondaAlbum length: 67.53 minGenre: Progressive Rock/Progressive Metal/Jazz FusionRating: 9.5/10 American eclectic proggers Thank You Scientist wowed everyone with…

Label: The Players Club / Mascot Label GroupRelease date: Feb. 26, 2021Produced by: Steve LukatherAlbum length: 50:18Genre: Art Rock First review by: Jernej VeneOver four-plus decades, American guitarist and singer Steve Lukather…

SamozaložbaDatum izida: 4. 9. 2020 Produkcija: Simon MorazDolžina albuma: 41.25 minZvrst: Jazz-Rock Fusion/BluesOcena: 9.5/10 Emil And The Detectives are a band from Styria, Maribor to be exact, and on their new album they've gone…

Self-releasedRelease date: 11. 12. 2020Production: Andrej Maver & FeedbackAlbum length: 41.19 minGenre: Jazz-Rock Fusion/Art Rock/BluesRating: 9.5/10 Feedback are one of the few Slovenian bands that play, plainly put, jazz rock…

Label: Frontiers Music SrlRelease date: November 6, 2020Production: Reb BeachAlbum length: 42.10 minGenre: Instrumental / Jazz Rock Fusion / Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Reb Beach is an American guitar virtuoso, composer and…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 9/18/2020Production: Derek SherinianAlbum length: 42:36 minGenre: Jazz-Rock Fusion/Progressive RockRating: 10/10 Derek Sherinian needs no special introduction, just the realization that nine years…

"On his new self-released studio outing, this outstanding musical gem of a talent keeps deepening, widening and nurturing the expressive qualities of his previous three albums, holding onto a top-shelf standard of musical artistry dressed…

"The Path of 01" is an unusual, one-of-a-kind and endlessly thrilling product of a bold jazz collision between five very different musical characters, resulting in a vivid body of work where analog and digital elements settle into a…

"The band has come out of this album artistically even stronger. With an exceptional level of focus and commitment, they've created a document of great creative freshness. And in exploring newly discovered musical expanses, their bold…

"Colosseum Live" is the essential live document of the cult prog rock pioneers and still one of the best windows into their sound and work, even though it left out "Valentyne Suite" and a few other fan favorites.

"The new, fourth chapter of top-shelf "bonkers" jazz-rock fusion, highly eclectic in nature, serves up more easygoing musical accessibility than theatrical muscle-flexing."

"With »Kontrapunk«, Koromač have outgrown »Punk Enough?« in artistic maturity. They reach for new approaches and challenges of musical inspiration, and skillfully fold them into their musical vision."

Even though it was made while the cult band was already falling apart at speed, "Daughter of Time" was a thoroughly solid effort, serving up plenty of interesting and fun moments and pulling Colosseum further away from their blues roots.

Location: Cormons / Teatro Comunale di Cormons / ItalyDate: Thursday, 24.10.2019 A live appearance by the legendary guitar wizard John McLaughlin near our western border was something no jazz fusion devotee could afford to miss —…

Compared with its more synthetic predecessor "Breakthrough," »Second Wind« was a noticeable step up, but it still ranked among the less exciting efforts from Moerlen's Gong, especially when set next to Pierre's albums from the seventies.

"»Conundrum« is everything we want from Alex Skolnick and his trio. This seven-year cycle between the trio's album releases works out great."

“Breakthrough” had a few interesting ideas, but it was light-years away from Moerlen's Gong at their best.

"Leave It Open" wasn't the most groundbreaking chapter in the Moerlen's Gong story, but thanks mainly to its title-track masterpiece, it's remembered fondly by fans of Pierre's musical legacy.

"Musicmagic," the final studio outing from the cult jazz fusionists, faded into obscurity fast, thanks to its thoroughly commercial feel and a complete lack of experimental playfulness, even though all six tracks on the album were once…

“Land of Cockayne” was in many ways a product of its time and a reflection of where the eighties jazz fusion scene was at. Even though it's not without its charms, it's light-years away from the classic Soft Machine approach to jazz fusion…

Listening to "Alive & Well," you'd never guess Soft Machine were on the verge of (a temporary) split, because even while playing brand-new material, the band still sounds like a well-oiled machine.

"Softs" was a thoroughly solid effort from the Jenkins-era Soft Machine, but a few less inspired ideas kept it from making the leap into their canon of classics. Still, they weathered Ratledge's departure pretty well.

Soft Machine are back! Along with Gryphon's new record, »Hidden Details« is another big surprise of 2018: a hugely successful comeback studio album from a legendary prog rock band we thought would never set foot in a studio again

“Time Is The Key” was a thoroughly decent album that cemented Moerlen's approach to melodic, ambient-rich jazz fusion with the odd prog rock element, but there was (no longer) much to say about any great innovation, since the basic recipe,…

»Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into« was a slightly less exciting but solid follow-up to the Gilgamesh debut, and it closed the book on a short but fun Canterbury story. The album came out in 1978, when Gilgamesh were already history.

Brimming with untamed energy, Colosseum's debut »Those Who Are About to Die Salute You« was a hugely important album in the story of early progressive rock and jazz fusion, and it's still of interest to most blues rock fans today.

Allan Holdsworth is the main reason "Bundles" is now counted among the classics of English jazz rock fusion.

"The charge this album gives off doesn't fade until the very last second of playing time. A bottomless well of energy transformed into musical magic. Unique in every respect, one of a kind, unrepeatable and singular."

" Top-notch, eye-catching, wholehearted, and played with incredible delight and a hefty dose of full-blooded fun. Throughout, the show also came with just the right amount of cheekiness and dark humor, which Hamm used to talk to the crowd…

"The album 'Punk Enough?' puts its eclecticism front and center, and it's a record that catches the band at an evolutionary moment, right in the middle of a stylistic transition."

"In the sonic landscape, Koromač are merciless nihilists, sound terrorists, totally unsuited to those 'softer souls' who 'inherited' fragile mechanoreceptor organs."

" An outstanding album that, alongside Feedback from Tolmin, delivers a badly needed progressive rock link on the Slovenian scene between the new generation and the look and spirit of the seventies bands (Izvir, Predmestje, September,…

"The guys played the whole new album, "Protocol III", and Simon Phillips, true to form, stepped up to the front of the stage three times to entertain the crowd with anecdotes and funny stories from his rich musical career. Of course, his…

"For a short while, Osibisa used their unique fusion of jazz, rock, funk and world music to transport us into the heart of the African savannas and jungles, with a brief stopover in the Caribbean islands."

"Bands with a 40-plus-year career that can still surprise you with an album on par with their best work could be counted on the fingers of both hands. With "Osee Yee", which can rightfully be declared their best effort since "Heads" (1972),…

"This is more than a decent debut. The band is still searching for the right sound, and for now maybe still lacks a bit of creativity and ideas. The tracks are pretty similar to one another, with too much repetition of "riffs" and certain…

"There was also a hilarious moment mid-set when Al suddenly praised a guy in the front row and asked if he was a drummer, since he always claps in such a tight, on-the-beat way."

"Od Franclna Možgani wowed us with their instrumental acrobatics and witty stage approach."

""Pofrancljevanje" is a hugely pleasant surprise that also marks an important turning point and new hope for Slovenian alternative, avant-garde and progressive rock"