Focused on Jazz Fusion

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Once again the audience can enjoy jazz fusion during the evening at this year's Prague Proms festival. A musical genre from the late 1960s evolved into a new style that combines jazz improvisation with rock, funk and R&B. The style is characterized by a rather urgent and expansive sound and rock rhythms with specific instrumentation, especially electric guitars and keys, which weren’t that common in jazz until then.

During the Focused on Jazz Fusion project, The Loop Jazz Orchestra will present pieces by leading jazz fusion composers for the second time. Synthesizers and other electrified instruments, which are typical for fusion, will accompany the entire bigband.

Performers

The Loop Jazz Orchestra

Vít Pospíšil artistic leader

Programme

Strap-Hangin’
Randy Brecker

Some Skunk Funk
Brecker Brothers

Sponge
Brecker Brothers

In A Silent Way
Joe Zawinul (Weather Report)

(It’s Just) Talk
Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays (Pat Metheny Group)

Upside Downside
Mike Stern

Have You Heard
Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays (Pat Metheny Group)

Elegant People
Wayne Shorter (Weather Report)

Señor Mouse
Chick Corea (Return to Forever)

Remark You Made
Joe Zawinul (Weather Report)

Palladium
Wayne Shorter

Watermelon Man
Herbie Hancock