fusion jazz

In its seven-and-half minutes, “ASR” hints at fusion jazz, Funkadelic, Ethiopian pop, reggae and psychedelia; the guitarist Jeff Parker, from Tortoise, teases the music forward.

She also sang in Black Voices, an a cappella group directed by her aunt; wrote songs for her neo-soul/fusion jazz group, Judyshouse; and led school choruses and gospel choirs before concentrating on her own performing career.

Chick Corea, the Grammy-winning pianist and keyboardist whose work at the intersections of jazz, experimental music, progressive rock and classical music with his band Return to Forever helped define the sound of fusion jazz in the 1970s, has died.

I started writing a whole bunch of fusion jazz songs, and he would call me up and go, “Man, I can write that. I want you to write me a ‘Good Times.’

“In Iceland, we try to have a klezmer band, and new jazz, and fusion jazz and techno jazz and classic Chicago jazz,” he said.