Did
you know?
Many
of the greatest musicians in history helped to create the genre
of fusion. Their efforts, spanning the course of their lifetimes,
resulted in this remarkable achievement. Perhaps musicians have
always dabbled in some form of fusion, in raw free-form improvization.
But it wasn't until the mid to late sixties when it began to
explode in popularity.
Artists
such as John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis were among
some of the greatest who were instrumental (no pun intended)
in making fusion a valid form of music.
Today
many old-school jazz dinosaurs reject fusion as a passing fad.
The fact is that fusion is the highest form of music, requiring
way greater levels of musicianship than any other form of music.
The
better a musician one gets, the closer one comes to being a
fusion musician. One reaches a point where one gets so good,
one can't help but cross the line where regular music ends and
fusion begins.
Through
in-depth meditation and spiritual practice, John McLaughlin
and Carlos Santana verified that fusion is the highest musical
form of creation. Their spiritual guidance has helped steer
fusion in a positive direction.
Jeff
Beck's mid-seventies fusion releases sold millions, proving
for the first time that fusion has a lucrative commercial value.
Fusion has since grown to be the most important genre of music
because it's simply on a higher evolutionary scale.