Definition & Criteria: In the late 1960s, jazz musicians began mixing the forms and improvisational techniques of jazz with the electric instruments of rock and the rhythms of soul and rhythm and blues. At the same time, some rock artists began adding jazz elements to their music. Fusion has gone on to often include world music and other elements. At its best, fusion music is often considered to be one of the most inventive, original and virtuosic musical genres.
These Fusion Songs were chosen to chosen for their musical vision through
their originality, influence, instrumental quality and creative inspiration.
1. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis 2. The Noonward Race - Mahavishnu Orchestra 3. Spain - Chick Corea 4. A Love Supreme - Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin 5. Slightly All The Time - Soft Machine 6. Boogie Woogie Waltz - Weather Report, Christian McBride 7. Hannibal - Miles Davis 8. Open Beauty - Don Ellis Orchestra 9. Chameleon - Herbie Hancock 10. A Remark You Made - Weather Report 11. Light As A Feather - Return To Forever 12. Footprints - Wayne Shorter 13. The Dominant Plague - Allan Holdsworth 14. Foreign Affairs - Tribal Tech 15. Proto Cosmos - The New Tony Williams Lifetime 16. Samurai Hee-Haw - Marc Johnson 17. Nubian Sundance - Weather Report 18. Still Warm - John Scofield 19. The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys - Traffic 20. St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast/Father O'Blivion - Frank Zappa 21. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? - Chicago 22. Incident At Neshabur - Santana 23. World Gone Strange - Andy Summers 24. Sympathy For The Devil - Blood, Sweat & Tears 25. Sandbox - Leni Stern 26. Funnels - Allan Holdsworth 27. The Precipice - Tribal Tech 28. The Wish - Chick Corea 29. Sometimes I... - Scott Kinsey 30. Galaxy - Eddie Henderson 31. Cadillac Club - Bob Berg 32. Sister Moon - Sting 33. Shadow Dance - Dave Holland 34. The Necessary Blonde - Tribal Tech 35. Two Price Hit - Petite Blonde 36. Welcome To My Chambers - Tom Coster 37. The Approaching Storm - Chicago 38. Looking Glass - Allan Holdsworth 39. Wild Things Run Fast - Joni Mitchell 40. Desert Girl - Planet X 41. Blessed Relief - Frank Zappa 42. Window's Peak - Dennis Chambers 43. 500 Miles High - Flora Purim 44. Sultan's Boogie - Scott Henderson 45. Train Of Thought - Mitchel Forman 46. Can You Follow? - Larry Coryell 47. Birdland - Weather Report 48. Nairobi Express - Scott Henderson 49. Saturn V - Tribal Tech 50. Devil Take The Hindmost - Allan Holdsworth 51. And When I Die - Blood, Sweat & Tears 52. Stella By Infra-Red High Particle Neutron Beam - Tribal Tech 53. Birds Of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra 54. Pud Wud - Allan Holdsworth 55. Signal Path - Tribal Tech 56. Carol Ann - Soft Machine 57. Toussaint L'overture - Santana 58. Seven Days - Sting 59. Somewhere In The West - Andy Summers 60. Sara's Touch - Mike Mainieri 61. Expansions - Lonnie Liston Smith 62. Winter In America - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson 63. Freedom Jazz Dance - Miroslav Vitous 64. Black Market - Weather Report, Shawn Lane 65. Inca Roads - Frank Zappa 66. Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock 67. City Nights - Allan Holdsworth 68. Blue Matter - John Scofield 69. Hillbilly In The Band - Scott Henderson 70. Return To Forever - Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy 71. Busy On The Line - Mark-Almond 72. Strawberry Soup - Don Ellis Orchestra 73. Summerhill - Dieter Ilg 74. The Big Wave - Tribal Tech 75. Pink Napkins - Frank Zappa 76. Talk To Me - Leni Stern 77. Actual Proof - Herbie Hancock 78. Kingdom Of Dreams - Planet X 79. Samba De Sausalito - Santana 80. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Joni Mitchell, Derek Sherinian 81. Space Camel - Tribal Tech 82. Dream - Mahavishnu Orchestra 83. Red Baron - Billy Cobham 84. Spanish Moss - Billy Cobham 85. Out-Bloody-Rageous - Soft Machine 86. School Days - Stanley Clarke 87. Nuclear Burn - Brand X 88. Giant Steps - Vital Tech Tones 89. Holiday Insane - Chad Wackerman 90. 2Fast - Scott Kinsey 91. Metro - Metro 92. Pussy Wiggle Stomp - Don Ellis 93. Race With Devil On Spanish Highway - Al Di Meola 94. Portrait Of A Yak - Wayne Johnson 95. Soli - Gong 96. Abracadabra - Klaus Doldinger 97. Bring On The Night - Sting 98. 5 To 10 - Allan Holdsworth 99. Vashkar - Tony Williams Lifetime 100. Zoot Allures - Frank Zappa
Miles Davis
John McLaughlin
Chick Corea
Don Ellis
Carlos Santana
Disclaimer: There is nothing 'Official' about these lists. They are compiled by the 'editor' using the
stated criteria, and revised considering the competent suggestions of visitors to this website only.
