Jazz Fusion

Music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Emerged 1950. Wikipedia

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86 artists with 1.9M combined listeners. 44% of them sit in the Jazz / Hard Bop / Vocal Jazz community on the map. It shares the most artists with Jazz Rock.

Where Jazz Fusion sits on the map

• Jazz / Hard Bop / Vocal Jazz · 38 artists (44%)
• Smooth Jazz / Smooth Saxophone / Cool Jazz · 13 artists (15%)
• Classic City Pop / Japanese Jazz Fusion / Burmese Pop · 11 artists (13%)
• Jazztronica / British Jazz / Lo-Fi Brasileiro · 5 artists (6%)
• Afropop / South African Jazz / South African Hip Hop · 3 artists (3%)
• Math Rock / Japanese Shoegaze / Japanese Math Rock · 2 artists (2%)

Strongest pairings in Jazz Fusion

Jazz Fusion artists who most often share real, user-made playlists.

1. Kim Waters & Gerald Albright · 25 shared playlists
2. Casiopea & Masayoshi Takanaka · 24 shared playlists
3. Casiopea & T-Square · 20 shared playlists
4. Kenny G & Earl Klugh · 17 shared playlists
5. Himiko Kikuchi & Masayoshi Takanaka · 16 shared playlists
6. Chuck Mangione & Spyro Gyra · 15 shared playlists
7. Casiopea & Himiko Kikuchi · 14 shared playlists
8. Weather Report & Return to Forever · 14 shared playlists
9. Billy Cobham & Weather Report · 13 shared playlists
10. Weather Report & Jean-Luc Ponty · 11 shared playlists

Related genres

Genres that share the most artists with Jazz Fusion, for their size.

• Jazz Rock · 7 shared artistsBoth: Jaco Pastorius, Al Di Meola, Billy Cobham
• Progressive Jazz Fusion · 7 shared artistsBoth: Al Di Meola, Dave Weckl, Return to Forever
• Japanese Jazz Fusion · 6 shared artistsBoth: Casiopea, T-Square, Mass
• Classic Japanese Jazz · 3 shared artistsBoth: Himiko Kikuchi, Hiroshi Suzuki, The Square / T-Square
• Smooth Jazz · 8 shared artistsBoth: Kenny G, Earl Klugh, Joe Sample
• Double Drumming · 2 shared artistsBoth: Larnell Lewis, Mathieu Fiset
• Japanese Jazz · 4 shared artistsBoth: Masayoshi Takanaka, T-Square, Hiroshi Suzuki
• Boogaloo · 2 shared artistsBoth: Willie Bobo, ImRuscelOfficial

Artists

86 artists tagged Jazz Fusion, ranked by listeners.

1. Kenny G406.2K listeners · Smooth Jazz
2. Pat Metheny243.0K listeners · Jazz Guitar
3. Marcus Miller140.5K listeners · Neo Soul
4. Jaco Pastorius105.3K listeners
5. Snarky Puppy83.2K listeners
6. Victor Wooten68.6K listeners · Jazz Funk
7. Weather Report67.0K listeners · Jazz
8. Al Di Meola59.5K listeners
9. Billy Cobham56.6K listeners
10. John McLaughlin45.9K listeners
11. Earl Klugh34.6K listeners · Smooth Jazz
12. Joe Sample32.8K listeners · Smooth Jazz
13. Michael Franks31.1K listeners
14. Dave Weckl29.1K listeners
15. Masayoshi Takanaka27.6K listeners · Classic City Pop
16. Spyro Gyra25.7K listeners · Smooth Jazz
17. Gerald Albright24.7K listeners · Smooth Jazz
18. Mike Stern22.2K listeners
19. Cory Wong22.2K listeners
20. Guthrie Govan21.1K listeners
21. Return to Forever19.5K listeners
22. Casiopea17.5K listeners
23. Ron Carter17.5K listeners · Afrofuturism
24. Dave Holland17.0K listeners · Vocal Jazz
25. The Aristocrats16.4K listeners
26. Lars Danielsson15.8K listeners · Contemporary Post-Bop
27. Michael Brecker14.7K listeners · Jazz Funk
28. Jean-Luc Ponty14.6K listeners
29. Allan Holdsworth14.3K listeners
30. Dave Weckl Band13.8K listeners
31. Greg Howe13.0K listeners
32. Cortex12.6K listeners
33. The Fearless Flyers12.2K listeners
34. Scott Henderson11.4K listeners · Progressive Jazz Fusion
35. Santa Esmeralda10.7K listeners · Disco
36. Kenny Garrett10.4K listeners · Jazz
37. Azymuth8.8K listeners
38. Julian Lage8.8K listeners · Jazz Guitar
39. Lyle Mays8.3K listeners · Jazz Piano
40. Chuck Mangione7.8K listeners · Yacht Rock
41. Alain Caron7.3K listeners · Jazz Guitar
42. Joe Lovano7.0K listeners · Japanese Soul
43. Jeff Lorber Fusion6.3K listeners
44. Bobbi Humphrey6.2K listeners · Jazz
45. Mark Lettieri4.7K listeners
46. Kim Waters4.7K listeners · Smooth Jazz
47. Tribal Tech4.5K listeners
48. The 8-Bit Big Band3.8K listeners
49. T-Square3.6K listeners
50. Mohini Dey3.5K listeners · Progressive Rock
51. Moses Yoofee Trio3.3K listeners
52. SERAPHINE NOIR3.1K listeners
53. Charles Berthoud2.9K listeners
54. Willie Bobo2.6K listeners · Latin Jazz
55. Tatran2.4K listeners
56. Mass2.4K listeners · New School Turkce Rap
57. Larnell Lewis2.1K listeners · Funk Rock
58. Himiko Kikuchi2.0K listeners
59. Paul Jackson, Jr.2.0K listeners
60. Sungazer1.9K listeners
61. Hiroshi Suzuki1.9K listeners · Japanese Jazz
62. Shubh Saran1.7K listeners · Wonky
63. Ananda Project1.6K listeners
64. Vincen García1.6K listeners
65. Joel Ross1.2K listeners
66. Orup1.1K listeners · Classic Swedish Pop
67. Tarika Blue1.0K listeners
68. Ekathé1.0K listeners
69. Soil ＆“Pimp” Sessions1.0K listeners
70. The Square / T-Square1.0K listeners
71. Loom room1.0K listeners · Boom Bap
72. Kan Sano1.0K listeners
73. Juna Serita1.0K listeners · Vocal Jazz
74. Anatole Muster1.0K listeners · Jazztronica
75. Andile Yenana1.0K listeners · South African Jazz
76. Ivanoe1.0K listeners · Jazz
77. Royal Tunes1.0K listeners · Vocal Jazz
78. Sam Greenfield1.0K listeners · Funk
79. Chiqui Rodriguez1.0K listeners · Pop Flamenco
80. Joe Chambers1.0K listeners · Vocal Jazz
81. The Movers1.0K listeners · South African Jazz
82. Tom Oren1.0K listeners · Contemporary Post-Bop
83. Mathieu Fiset1.0K listeners
84. ImRuscelOfficial1.0K listeners
85. Johnny Hammond1.0K listeners
86. Chris Burke1.0K listeners