A Harmonic Rendezvous of the Saxophone and the Electric Guitar

After a brief glance at some articles on the topic of Jazz Fusion, and an extensive experience listening to some of the most talented, better known producers in the field, I have discovered that Jazz fusion can best be described as the freeform elements of Jazz, and the absolute freedom that that art-form gives the producer, combined with the electronic, dancing, jumping, overwhelming POWER present in all rock and roll tracks and the instruments that produce them. The fusion of rock and jazz music was popularized under the name “Jazz Fusion” by popular jazz and rock artists who utilized different elements from the two genres in their works, and much of the essential Jazz Fusion music was produced from 1970 to 1990, during the upturn period of rock and roll, when every band was experimenting with sound and trying to find their own distinct style. One of the more interesting points Jazz Fusion has to make, includes the absolute disparity that lied between Rock and Jazz up until the two fused together into the ironic genre. Jazz was all about the free expression of the artists, using their instruments as their pens and the audience as their paper. In fact, many popular Jazz songs are merely improvised on the spot by the musicians, most of whom have enormous skill on their respective instruments, and the classical knowledge to back it up. On the other hand, Rock music was more about adhering to a certain structure when writing songs, and while two separate Jazz and Rock songs could have as much energy as each other, the casual listener would always state that Rock was more energetic simply because the Jazz song’s energy is more mysterious, more enigmatic, and difficult to understand. The Rock song always contains sort of a “punch-in-the-face” kind of energy. The artists who found the style of Jazz Fusion most appealing were bands such as Miles Davis, Weather Report, Spyro Gyra, Herbie Hancock, and famous pianist Chick Corea. A majority of them do not place any actual vocals inside their songs, so that the listener has to listen to the cry of the guitar, the scream of the saxophone, the dancing on the piano, and the sounds of all the other prevalent instruments in order to get some kind of emotional meaning out of the song. 

Curation of a few Jazz Fusion music links: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnSC0tRmya4 (Chick Corea performing “Armando’s Rhumba”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6j7Jf9al0 (Miles Davis performing “Fusion”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o (Weather Report performing “Birdland”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebaM6SN7EO8 (Spyro Gyra performing “Incognito”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrgP1u5YWEg (Herbie Hancock performing “Cantelope Island”)