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== Representative performances ==
== Representative performances ==
These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.
These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.
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| popular || regional || Comprehensive catalogue; recent discovery is prioritized and worthwhile older music remains playable. Preserve specific recording contexts and dates.
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! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes
! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes !! Repertoire kind !! Repertoire date !! Recording date !! Format !! Opening !! Places !! Fit !! Evidence !! Review note
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| Weather Report || Birdland — Offenbach, 1978 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/pqashW66D7o || The jazz-education resource links this concert performance of Joe Zawinul’s composition. Weather Report’s electric ensemble offers a focused jazz-fusion example, distinct from an acoustic interpretation of the same composition.<ref name="performance-jazz-fusion-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o Weather Report — Birdland — Offenbach, 1978]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18. Context: [https://www.jazzinamerica.org/Media/Video/pqashW66D7o?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=540&width=500 supporting source].</ref> Embedded playback is currently unavailable (YouTube code 150); the recording reference is retained. || popular || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || pending || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o Existing recording] || Playback blocked: YouTube embedding error 150 observed 19 October 2026. Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.
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| Herbie Hancock || Chameleon — live in Tokyo, 1975 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/lstyJT7z4I8 || An official live-audio release. The electric keyboard sound, repeating funk figure and extended improvisation offer a jazz-funk branch of fusion alongside Weather Report’s ensemble approach.<ref name="performance-jazz-fusion-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lstyJT7z4I8 Herbie Hancock — Chameleon — live in Tokyo, 1975]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> Embedded playback is currently unavailable (YouTube code 150); the recording reference is retained. || popular || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || pending || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lstyJT7z4I8 Existing recording] || Playback blocked: YouTube embedding error 150 observed 19 October 2026. Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.
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| Tigran Hamasyan || Tigran Hamasyan - War Time Poem (live) at Billboard Live Tokyo, Japan (October 18, 2026), 2nd Stage || https://www.youtube.com/embed/z1CmODtg_uI || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: alumi7137. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-10-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CmODtg_uI Tigran Hamasyan - War Time Poem (live) at Billboard Live Tokyo, Japan (October 18, 2026), 2nd Stage].</ref> || popular || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CmODtg_uI Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: alumi7137. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Snarky Puppy || Snarky Puppy – Bet (Night 3 of 3) – 2026 GroundUP Music Festival || https://www.youtube.com/embed/reFKt2g4QBw || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-15. Video publication: 2026-10-16; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reFKt2g4QBw Snarky Puppy – Bet (Night 3 of 3) – 2026 GroundUP Music Festival].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-03-15 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reFKt2g4QBw Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-15.
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| DOMi and JD BECK || DOMi &amp; JD BECK - SNiFF (Live) &#124; Sold Out @ Bimbo’s 365 Club, San Francisco 10.9.26 :) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥁🎹 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/6FkJimFjPSo || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: sumthinsumthin523. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-10-09. Video publication: 2026-10-12; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FkJimFjPSo DOMi &amp; JD BECK - SNiFF (Live) &#124; Sold Out @ Bimbo’s 365 Club, San Francisco 10.9.26 :) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥁🎹].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-10-09 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FkJimFjPSo Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: sumthinsumthin523. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-10-09.
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| Snarky Puppy || Snarky Puppy – What About Me? (Night 3 of 3) – 2026 GroundUP Music Festival || https://www.youtube.com/embed/wz8BSpKhGOQ || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-15. Video publication: 2026-09-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz8BSpKhGOQ Snarky Puppy – What About Me? (Night 3 of 3) – 2026 GroundUP Music Festival].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-03-15 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz8BSpKhGOQ Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-15.
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| Snarky Puppy || Snarky Puppy, JazzFestBrno, SONO Brno, 14.9.2026 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/H4g2VJuF3I8 || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: jazzport. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-09-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4g2VJuF3I8 Snarky Puppy, JazzFestBrno, SONO Brno, 14.9.2026].</ref> || popular || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4g2VJuF3I8 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: jazzport. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Snarky Puppy || Snarky Puppy - Take It  &#124; Live at Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival || https://www.youtube.com/embed/NqbOIieQ94g || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Qwest TV. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2022. Video publication: 2026-09-09; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqbOIieQ94g Snarky Puppy - Take It  &#124; Live at Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2022 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqbOIieQ94g Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Qwest TV. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2022.
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| Snarky Puppy || Snarky Puppy with Isaiah Sharkey: Shofukan &#124; 2026-07-30 - The Capitol Theatre; Port Chester, NY 4K || https://www.youtube.com/embed/07rDb984GjE || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: MKDevo. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-30. Video publication: 2026-08-04; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07rDb984GjE Snarky Puppy with Isaiah Sharkey: Shofukan &#124; 2026-07-30 - The Capitol Theatre; Port Chester, NY 4K].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-07-30 || unknown || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07rDb984GjE Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: MKDevo. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-30.
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| DOMi and JD BECK || DOMi &amp; JD Beck "SiLHOUETTE" (7/29/26) Lodge Room Highland Park  || https://www.youtube.com/embed/zkRVgb2w_lg || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Benjamin Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-29. Video publication: 2026-08-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkRVgb2w_lg DOMi &amp; JD Beck "SiLHOUETTE" (7/29/26) Lodge Room Highland Park ].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-07-29 || unknown || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkRVgb2w_lg Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Benjamin Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-29.
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| DOMi and JD BECK || DOMi &amp; JD Beck "SMALL EYES" (7/29/26) Lodge Room Highland Park  || https://www.youtube.com/embed/_mCWkcPK53c || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Benjamin Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-29. Video publication: 2026-08-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mCWkcPK53c DOMi &amp; JD Beck "SMALL EYES" (7/29/26) Lodge Room Highland Park ].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-07-29 || unknown || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mCWkcPK53c Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Benjamin Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-29.
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| Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill || Hiromi's Sonicwonder - Up (live at North Sea Jazz  2026) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/NGj7vr5Ws_0 || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: JR van Kampen. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-07-13; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGj7vr5Ws_0 Hiromi's Sonicwonder - Up (live at North Sea Jazz  2026)].</ref> || popular || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGj7vr5Ws_0 Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: JR van Kampen. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Snarky Puppy || Snarky Puppy – Waves Upon Waves – GroundUP Music Festival 2026 (Night 2) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/wHj74OjD3II || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-14. Video publication: 2026-07-03; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHj74OjD3II Snarky Puppy – Waves Upon Waves – GroundUP Music Festival 2026 (Night 2)].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-03-14 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHj74OjD3II Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-14.
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| Sungazer || Sungazer Plus Live at the Blue Note (full concert) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/MCNZ_YpQzfI?start=33 || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Adam Neely. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-07-01/2025-07-02. Video publication: 2026-06-23; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCNZ_YpQzfI Sungazer Plus Live at the Blue Note (full concert)].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2025-07-01/2025-07-02 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCNZ_YpQzfI Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Adam Neely. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-07-01/2025-07-02.
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| Sungazer || [FULL] SUNGAZER 🇺🇸 European Tour with PLINI 2026 Live in Frankfurt 🇩🇪 260526 [4K] @Batschkapp || https://www.youtube.com/embed/5s3xVRXYrEA?start=105 || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Only Live Music 24 🎧🧠. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-06-21; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s3xVRXYrEA [FULL] SUNGAZER 🇺🇸 European Tour with PLINI 2026 Live in Frankfurt 🇩🇪 260526 [4K] @Batschkapp].</ref> || popular || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s3xVRXYrEA Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Only Live Music 24 🎧🧠. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill || Hiromi’s Sonicwonder. Sonicwonderland. 5/9/26 Houston || https://www.youtube.com/embed/uHjJITuBPAI || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: dubaidaddy13. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-06-07; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHjJITuBPAI Hiromi’s Sonicwonder. Sonicwonderland. 5/9/26 Houston].</ref> || popular || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHjJITuBPAI Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: dubaidaddy13. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Stanley Clarke and Friends; Kiefer; Keyon Harrold || Stanley Clarke Band and Friends Live at The Santa Monica International Jazz Festival, May 9th, 2026 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/11lWSXYRVck || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: MarioLAGuy. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-05-09. Video publication: 2026-05-10; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lWSXYRVck Stanley Clarke Band and Friends Live at The Santa Monica International Jazz Festival, May 9th, 2026].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-05-09 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lWSXYRVck Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: MarioLAGuy. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-05-09.
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| Sungazer || Sungazer- Hot Saturn 2.5.26 @ Helsinki || https://www.youtube.com/embed/-bjZVPlpIjg || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Kolttis. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-05-08; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bjZVPlpIjg Sungazer- Hot Saturn 2.5.26 @ Helsinki].</ref> || popular || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bjZVPlpIjg Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Kolttis. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill || Hiromi's Sonicwonder - OUT THERE: Suite - Orpheum Theater - Los Angeles, CA 5/01/26 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/_hxlNqyLljQ || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: John Ziegwied-Front & Center Concert Videos. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-05-01. Video publication: 2026-05-02; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hxlNqyLljQ Hiromi's Sonicwonder - OUT THERE: Suite - Orpheum Theater - Los Angeles, CA 5/01/26].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-05-01 || unknown || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hxlNqyLljQ Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: John Ziegwied-Front &amp; Center Concert Videos. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-05-01.
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| Sungazer || Sungazer - "Cool 7" Klub Niebo Warszawa - 28.04.2026 LIVE || https://www.youtube.com/embed/3KwLg9Yk6Ws || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Cezary Glaza. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-05-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KwLg9Yk6Ws Sungazer - "Cool 7" Klub Niebo Warszawa - 28.04.2026 LIVE].</ref> || popular || unknown || unknown || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KwLg9Yk6Ws Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Cezary Glaza. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill || Hiromi's Sonicwonder Jazz Fest 2026-04-24 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/vjW5ReahBiM || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Anthony Albert. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-04-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjW5ReahBiM Hiromi's Sonicwonder Jazz Fest 2026-04-24].</ref> || popular || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjW5ReahBiM Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Anthony Albert. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
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| Tigran Hamasyan || Tigran Hamasyan performs "Postlude" and "The Kingdom" live in Washington DC, March 10, 2026 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/lkTsfwABX-E || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Andy Carvin. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-10. Video publication: 2026-03-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkTsfwABX-E Tigran Hamasyan performs "Postlude" and "The Kingdom" live in Washington DC, March 10, 2026].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2026-03-10 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkTsfwABX-E Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Andy Carvin. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-10.
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| Snarky Puppy; Metropole Orkest; Jules Buckley || Snarky Puppy &amp; Metropole Orkest - Full Concert [HD] &#124; Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2016 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/vKun3lmXNys || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: North Sea Jazz Archive. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-07-08. Video publication: 2026-02-14; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKun3lmXNys Snarky Puppy &amp; Metropole Orkest - Full Concert [HD] &#124; Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2016].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2016-07-08 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKun3lmXNys Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: North Sea Jazz Archive. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-07-08.
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| Tigran Hamasyan; Yessaï Karapetian; Marc Karapetian; Jerad Lippi || Tigran Hamasyan Live – "The Kingdom" from The Bird of a Thousand Voices &#124; Chan Centre || https://www.youtube.com/embed/LBldtN8mmYk || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-03-15. Video publication: 2025-07-27; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBldtN8mmYk Tigran Hamasyan Live – "The Kingdom" from The Bird of a Thousand Voices &#124; Chan Centre].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2025-03-15 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBldtN8mmYk Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-03-15.
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| Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill || Hiromi’s Sonicwonder - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/-hTAdzLu6pg?start=19 || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: KEXP. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-04-16. Video publication: 2025-06-27; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hTAdzLu6pg Hiromi’s Sonicwonder - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2025-04-16 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hTAdzLu6pg Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: KEXP. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-04-16.
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| Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill || Hiromi's SONICWONDER – "OUT THERE: Orion" (Live at SFJAZZ) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/6mf0W8kAX-g || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: SFJAZZ. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-04-18. Video publication: 2025-04-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mf0W8kAX-g Hiromi's SONICWONDER – "OUT THERE: Orion" (Live at SFJAZZ)].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2025-04-18 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mf0W8kAX-g Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: SFJAZZ. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-04-18.
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| Nathan East; Jack Lee; Steve Ferrone; Michael Thompson; Mimi Sumitomo; Kaleb James; James East || Java Jazz-Full Show(1080hd)-Nathan East, Jack Lee, Steve Ferrone, MT, Mimi, Kaleb &amp; James East || https://www.youtube.com/embed/3s7TLErh0Sk || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Jack Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019. Video publication: 2025-02-07; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s7TLErh0Sk Java Jazz-Full Show(1080hd)-Nathan East, Jack Lee, Steve Ferrone, MT, Mimi, Kaleb &amp; James East].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2019 || unknown || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s7TLErh0Sk Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Jack Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019.
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| Sungazer || Sungazer - Cool 7 (Live at UFO Sound Studios) || https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hmu8X0FmcHo || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Adam Neely 2. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2024-07-16. Video publication: 2024-09-19; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmu8X0FmcHo Sungazer - Cool 7 (Live at UFO Sound Studios)].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2024-07-16 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmu8X0FmcHo Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Adam Neely 2. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2024-07-16.
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| Weather Report || Birdland — Offenbach, 1978 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/pqashW66D7o || The jazz-education resource links this concert performance of Joe Zawinul’s composition. Weather Report’s electric ensemble offers a focused jazz-fusion example, distinct from an acoustic interpretation of the same composition.<ref name="performance-jazz-fusion-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o Weather Report — Birdland — Offenbach, 1978]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18. Context: [https://www.jazzinamerica.org/Media/Video/pqashW66D7o?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=540&width=500 supporting source].</ref>
| Spyro Gyra || Spyro Gyra –  Full Show live, Leverkusener Jazztage l 2022 &#124; Rockpalast || https://www.youtube.com/embed/sYIu9ibtLXk || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: WDR Rockpalast. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2022. Video publication: 2022-12-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYIu9ibtLXk Spyro Gyra –  Full Show live, Leverkusener Jazztage l 2022 &#124; Rockpalast].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2022 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYIu9ibtLXk Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: WDR Rockpalast. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2022.
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| Herbie Hancock || Chameleon — live in Tokyo, 1975 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/lstyJT7z4I8 || An official live-audio release. The electric keyboard sound, repeating funk figure and extended improvisation offer a jazz-funk branch of fusion alongside Weather Report’s ensemble approach.<ref name="performance-jazz-fusion-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lstyJT7z4I8 Herbie Hancock — Chameleon — live in Tokyo, 1975]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
| Joshua Domfeh; Morgan Green; Immanuel Simelane; Elijah Godson || NORD LIVE: Joshua Domfeh - City Lights || https://www.youtube.com/embed/vW806AhP4qQ || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: nordkeyboards. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2021-11. Actual NORD LIVE musical composition/performance blending contemporary gospel and jazz, not an equipment tutorial. Video publication: 2022-02-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW806AhP4qQ NORD LIVE: Joshua Domfeh - City Lights].</ref> || popular || unknown || 2021-11 || live || unknown || unknown || supported || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW806AhP4qQ Recording/context source] || Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: nordkeyboards. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2021-11. Actual NORD LIVE musical composition/performance blending contemporary gospel and jazz, not an equipment tutorial.
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Summary

Jazz fusion is a field in which improvisational and compositional jazz practices meet electric instruments, rock, funk and other musical languages. It is associated especially with experiments from the late 1960s onward, but the word covers many distinct sounds. A repeating bass groove, an intricate changing metre and an expansive synthesizer texture can all support improvisation. Fusion is not every cross-cultural jazz collaboration, nor simply jazz made louder. Its distinctive histories involve amplification, recording technology, rhythm-section roles and new relationships with audiences beyond conventional jazz venues.

Contemporary and trending

The classic electric bands remain influential, while contemporary instrumentalists continue to combine jazz, grooves, production and virtuoso ensemble writing. Specialist teaching, online circulation and international scenes sustain the language even when artists use other labels. Some performances emphasise collective interaction; others foreground precise arrangements or extended solos. Reunion concerts are one part of the story, not its whole contemporary life. Japan has a particularly developed locally creative fusion world, and musicians elsewhere connect the language to their own rhythmic resources. Popular accessibility and experimentation can coexist within the same project.

History

Miles Davis’s changing ensembles and recordings supplied one major laboratory during the late 1960s and 1970s. Musicians associated with those groups later developed contrasting projects, including Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever. Herbie Hancock’s funk-centred direction opened another influential route. Brazilian musicians and other international collaborators were creators within these formations, not decorative additions. Corea’s movement between electric groups, acoustic improvisation and Brazilian-inflected work shows why a simple story of abandoning jazz for rock is insufficient. Producers and studio editing also helped shape the music’s form. [1]

Musical characteristics

Electric bass may anchor a recurring riff or act as a mobile solo voice. Electric piano, synthesizers, guitar effects and amplification expand timbre and sustain, while drums and percussion can draw on backbeat, funk, Latin American cycles or changing metres. Tight ensemble passages often contrast with open improvisation. Studio layering and editing may become compositional tools. Some fusion is harmonically dense and fast, while other pieces develop slowly over a small amount of material. The key listening task is following how the groove supports changing instrumental conversation. [2]

Geography and communities

The northeastern United States and California form major connected creative landscapes. Britain and continental Europe developed independent jazz-rock and fusion worlds, and Japan’s strong local scene deserves its own field rather than a token touring-city dot. Southeastern Brazil contributes substantial exchange and creation, while Southeast Asian adoption also has meaningful regional depth. MuGlobe represents those broad ecosystems at different strengths. It does not treat a band’s international tour as proof of equal local density everywhere, nor confuse the global availability of guitar lessons with a uniformly shared genre preference. [3]

Artists

Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams provide contrasting formation histories. Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Lenny White, Billy Cobham and Airto Moreira help reveal how rhythm-section players reshaped the field. Flora Purim demonstrates an essential vocal presence. Casiopea and other Japanese groups offer independent adopted and creative trajectories. Artists’ careers span much more than fusion, so compare specific periods and ensembles. Listen beneath the most spectacular solo to hear arrangement, bass placement and the collective decisions that make virtuosity meaningful.

Representative performances

These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

MuGlobe listening profile
Repertoire Field use Notes
popular regional Comprehensive catalogue; recent discovery is prioritized and worthwhile older music remains playable. Preserve specific recording contexts and dates.
MuGlobe representative performances
Artist Performance / song / title Embedded player URL Notes Repertoire kind Repertoire date Recording date Format Opening Places Fit Evidence Review note
Weather Report Birdland — Offenbach, 1978 https://www.youtube.com/embed/pqashW66D7o The jazz-education resource links this concert performance of Joe Zawinul’s composition. Weather Report’s electric ensemble offers a focused jazz-fusion example, distinct from an acoustic interpretation of the same composition.[4] Embedded playback is currently unavailable (YouTube code 150); the recording reference is retained. popular unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown pending Existing recording Playback blocked: YouTube embedding error 150 observed 19 October 2026. Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.
Herbie Hancock Chameleon — live in Tokyo, 1975 https://www.youtube.com/embed/lstyJT7z4I8 An official live-audio release. The electric keyboard sound, repeating funk figure and extended improvisation offer a jazz-funk branch of fusion alongside Weather Report’s ensemble approach.[5] Embedded playback is currently unavailable (YouTube code 150); the recording reference is retained. popular unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown pending Existing recording Playback blocked: YouTube embedding error 150 observed 19 October 2026. Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.
Tigran Hamasyan Tigran Hamasyan - War Time Poem (live) at Billboard Live Tokyo, Japan (October 18, 2026), 2nd Stage https://www.youtube.com/embed/z1CmODtg_uI Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: alumi7137. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-10-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[6] popular unknown unknown live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: alumi7137. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy – Bet (Night 3 of 3) – 2026 GroundUP Music Festival https://www.youtube.com/embed/reFKt2g4QBw Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-15. Video publication: 2026-10-16; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[7] popular unknown 2026-03-15 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-15.
DOMi and JD BECK DOMi & JD BECK - SNiFF (Live) | Sold Out @ Bimbo’s 365 Club, San Francisco 10.9.26 :) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥁🎹 https://www.youtube.com/embed/6FkJimFjPSo Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: sumthinsumthin523. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-10-09. Video publication: 2026-10-12; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[8] popular unknown 2026-10-09 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: sumthinsumthin523. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-10-09.
Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy – What About Me? (Night 3 of 3) – 2026 GroundUP Music Festival https://www.youtube.com/embed/wz8BSpKhGOQ Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-15. Video publication: 2026-09-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[9] popular unknown 2026-03-15 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-15.
Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy, JazzFestBrno, SONO Brno, 14.9.2026 https://www.youtube.com/embed/H4g2VJuF3I8 Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: jazzport. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-09-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[10] popular unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: jazzport. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy - Take It | Live at Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival https://www.youtube.com/embed/NqbOIieQ94g Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Qwest TV. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2022. Video publication: 2026-09-09; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[11] popular unknown 2022 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Qwest TV. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2022.
Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy with Isaiah Sharkey: Shofukan | 2026-07-30 - The Capitol Theatre; Port Chester, NY 4K https://www.youtube.com/embed/07rDb984GjE Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: MKDevo. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-30. Video publication: 2026-08-04; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[12] popular unknown 2026-07-30 unknown unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: MKDevo. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-30.
DOMi and JD BECK DOMi & JD Beck "SiLHOUETTE" (7/29/26) Lodge Room Highland Park https://www.youtube.com/embed/zkRVgb2w_lg Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Benjamin Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-29. Video publication: 2026-08-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[13] popular unknown 2026-07-29 unknown unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Benjamin Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-29.
DOMi and JD BECK DOMi & JD Beck "SMALL EYES" (7/29/26) Lodge Room Highland Park https://www.youtube.com/embed/_mCWkcPK53c Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Benjamin Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-29. Video publication: 2026-08-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[14] popular unknown 2026-07-29 unknown unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Benjamin Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-07-29.
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill Hiromi's Sonicwonder - Up (live at North Sea Jazz 2026) https://www.youtube.com/embed/NGj7vr5Ws_0 Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: JR van Kampen. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-07-13; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[15] popular unknown unknown live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: JR van Kampen. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy – Waves Upon Waves – GroundUP Music Festival 2026 (Night 2) https://www.youtube.com/embed/wHj74OjD3II Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-14. Video publication: 2026-07-03; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[16] popular unknown 2026-03-14 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: GroundUP Music Festival. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-14.
Sungazer Sungazer Plus Live at the Blue Note (full concert) https://www.youtube.com/embed/MCNZ_YpQzfI?start=33 Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Adam Neely. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-07-01/2025-07-02. Video publication: 2026-06-23; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[17] popular unknown 2025-07-01/2025-07-02 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Adam Neely. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-07-01/2025-07-02.
Sungazer [FULL] SUNGAZER 🇺🇸 European Tour with PLINI 2026 Live in Frankfurt 🇩🇪 260526 [4K] @Batschkapp https://www.youtube.com/embed/5s3xVRXYrEA?start=105 Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Only Live Music 24 🎧🧠. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-06-21; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[18] popular unknown unknown live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Only Live Music 24 🎧🧠. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill Hiromi’s Sonicwonder. Sonicwonderland. 5/9/26 Houston https://www.youtube.com/embed/uHjJITuBPAI Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: dubaidaddy13. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-06-07; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[19] popular unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: dubaidaddy13. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
Stanley Clarke and Friends; Kiefer; Keyon Harrold Stanley Clarke Band and Friends Live at The Santa Monica International Jazz Festival, May 9th, 2026 https://www.youtube.com/embed/11lWSXYRVck Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: MarioLAGuy. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-05-09. Video publication: 2026-05-10; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[20] popular unknown 2026-05-09 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: MarioLAGuy. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-05-09.
Sungazer Sungazer- Hot Saturn 2.5.26 @ Helsinki https://www.youtube.com/embed/-bjZVPlpIjg Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Kolttis. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-05-08; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[21] popular unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Kolttis. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill Hiromi's Sonicwonder - OUT THERE: Suite - Orpheum Theater - Los Angeles, CA 5/01/26 https://www.youtube.com/embed/_hxlNqyLljQ Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: John Ziegwied-Front & Center Concert Videos. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-05-01. Video publication: 2026-05-02; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[22] popular unknown 2026-05-01 unknown unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: John Ziegwied-Front & Center Concert Videos. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-05-01.
Sungazer Sungazer - "Cool 7" Klub Niebo Warszawa - 28.04.2026 LIVE https://www.youtube.com/embed/3KwLg9Yk6Ws Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Cezary Glaza. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-05-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[23] popular unknown unknown live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Cezary Glaza. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill Hiromi's Sonicwonder Jazz Fest 2026-04-24 https://www.youtube.com/embed/vjW5ReahBiM Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Anthony Albert. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Video publication: 2026-04-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[24] popular unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Anthony Albert. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates.
Tigran Hamasyan Tigran Hamasyan performs "Postlude" and "The Kingdom" live in Washington DC, March 10, 2026 https://www.youtube.com/embed/lkTsfwABX-E Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Andy Carvin. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-10. Video publication: 2026-03-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[25] popular unknown 2026-03-10 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Andy Carvin. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-03-10.
Snarky Puppy; Metropole Orkest; Jules Buckley Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest - Full Concert [HD] | Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2016 https://www.youtube.com/embed/vKun3lmXNys Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: North Sea Jazz Archive. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-07-08. Video publication: 2026-02-14; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[26] popular unknown 2016-07-08 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: North Sea Jazz Archive. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-07-08.
Tigran Hamasyan; Yessaï Karapetian; Marc Karapetian; Jerad Lippi Tigran Hamasyan Live – "The Kingdom" from The Bird of a Thousand Voices | Chan Centre https://www.youtube.com/embed/LBldtN8mmYk Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-03-15. Video publication: 2025-07-27; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[27] popular unknown 2025-03-15 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-03-15.
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill Hiromi’s Sonicwonder - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) https://www.youtube.com/embed/-hTAdzLu6pg?start=19 Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: KEXP. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-04-16. Video publication: 2025-06-27; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[28] popular unknown 2025-04-16 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: KEXP. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-04-16.
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder – Hiromi Uehara; Hadrien Feraud; Gene Coye; Adam O’Farrill Hiromi's SONICWONDER – "OUT THERE: Orion" (Live at SFJAZZ) https://www.youtube.com/embed/6mf0W8kAX-g Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: SFJAZZ. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-04-18. Video publication: 2025-04-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[29] popular unknown 2025-04-18 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: SFJAZZ. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-04-18.
Nathan East; Jack Lee; Steve Ferrone; Michael Thompson; Mimi Sumitomo; Kaleb James; James East Java Jazz-Full Show(1080hd)-Nathan East, Jack Lee, Steve Ferrone, MT, Mimi, Kaleb & James East https://www.youtube.com/embed/3s7TLErh0Sk Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Jack Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019. Video publication: 2025-02-07; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[30] popular unknown 2019 unknown unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Jack Lee. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019.
Sungazer Sungazer - Cool 7 (Live at UFO Sound Studios) https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hmu8X0FmcHo Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Adam Neely 2. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2024-07-16. Video publication: 2024-09-19; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[31] popular unknown 2024-07-16 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: Adam Neely 2. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2024-07-16.
Spyro Gyra Spyro Gyra – Full Show live, Leverkusener Jazztage l 2022 | Rockpalast https://www.youtube.com/embed/sYIu9ibtLXk Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: WDR Rockpalast. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2022. Video publication: 2022-12-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[32] popular unknown 2022 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: WDR Rockpalast. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2022.
Joshua Domfeh; Morgan Green; Immanuel Simelane; Elijah Godson NORD LIVE: Joshua Domfeh - City Lights https://www.youtube.com/embed/vW806AhP4qQ Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: nordkeyboards. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2021-11. Actual NORD LIVE musical composition/performance blending contemporary gospel and jazz, not an equipment tutorial. Video publication: 2022-02-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 19 October 2026.[33] popular unknown 2021-11 live unknown unknown supported Recording/context source Reviewed Jazz fusion musical recording. Source: nordkeyboards. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2021-11. Actual NORD LIVE musical composition/performance blending contemporary gospel and jazz, not an equipment tutorial.

Related genres

Jazz-rock and jazz-funk identify overlapping emphases rather than exact synonyms for every fusion project. Progressive rock shares instrumentation and technical resources while having different histories of song and composition. Latin jazz can overlap through people and rhythmic language but predates the electric-fusion moment. Free jazz and fusion also intersect, disproving a neat acoustic-versus-electric opposition. Smooth jazz developed a related but distinct commercial and production history; polished tone alone cannot determine the label. The most useful distinction is how a particular performance organises improvisation, groove, form and sound.

References and further reading

  1. ↑ Bio — Chick Corea official website.
  2. ↑ Branford Marsalis on Herbie Hancock — National Endowment for the Arts.
  3. ↑ CASIOPEA — Universal Music Japan.
  4. ↑ Weather Report — Birdland — Offenbach, 1978. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18. Context: supporting source.
  5. ↑ Herbie Hancock — Chameleon — live in Tokyo, 1975. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.
  6. ↑ Tigran Hamasyan - War Time Poem (live) at Billboard Live Tokyo, Japan (October 18, 2026), 2nd Stage.
  7. ↑ Snarky Puppy – Bet (Night 3 of 3) – 2026 GroundUP Music Festival.
  8. ↑ DOMi & JD BECK - SNiFF (Live) | Sold Out @ Bimbo’s 365 Club, San Francisco 10.9.26 :) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥁🎹.
  9. ↑ Snarky Puppy – What About Me? (Night 3 of 3) – 2026 GroundUP Music Festival.
  10. ↑ Snarky Puppy, JazzFestBrno, SONO Brno, 14.9.2026.
  11. ↑ Snarky Puppy - Take It | Live at Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival.
  12. ↑ Snarky Puppy with Isaiah Sharkey: Shofukan | 2026-07-30 - The Capitol Theatre; Port Chester, NY 4K.
  13. ↑ DOMi & JD Beck "SiLHOUETTE" (7/29/26) Lodge Room Highland Park .
  14. ↑ DOMi & JD Beck "SMALL EYES" (7/29/26) Lodge Room Highland Park .
  15. ↑ Hiromi's Sonicwonder - Up (live at North Sea Jazz 2026).
  16. ↑ Snarky Puppy – Waves Upon Waves – GroundUP Music Festival 2026 (Night 2).
  17. ↑ Sungazer Plus Live at the Blue Note (full concert).
  18. ↑ [FULL SUNGAZER 🇺🇸 European Tour with PLINI 2026 Live in Frankfurt 🇩🇪 260526 [4K] @Batschkapp].
  19. ↑ Hiromi’s Sonicwonder. Sonicwonderland. 5/9/26 Houston.
  20. ↑ Stanley Clarke Band and Friends Live at The Santa Monica International Jazz Festival, May 9th, 2026.
  21. ↑ Sungazer- Hot Saturn 2.5.26 @ Helsinki.
  22. ↑ Hiromi's Sonicwonder - OUT THERE: Suite - Orpheum Theater - Los Angeles, CA 5/01/26.
  23. ↑ Sungazer - "Cool 7" Klub Niebo Warszawa - 28.04.2026 LIVE.
  24. ↑ Hiromi's Sonicwonder Jazz Fest 2026-04-24.
  25. ↑ Tigran Hamasyan performs "Postlude" and "The Kingdom" live in Washington DC, March 10, 2026.
  26. ↑ Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest - Full Concert [HD | Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2016].
  27. ↑ Tigran Hamasyan Live – "The Kingdom" from The Bird of a Thousand Voices | Chan Centre.
  28. ↑ Hiromi’s Sonicwonder - Full Performance (Live on KEXP).
  29. ↑ Hiromi's SONICWONDER – "OUT THERE: Orion" (Live at SFJAZZ).
  30. ↑ Java Jazz-Full Show(1080hd)-Nathan East, Jack Lee, Steve Ferrone, MT, Mimi, Kaleb & James East.
  31. ↑ Sungazer - Cool 7 (Live at UFO Sound Studios).
  32. ↑ Spyro Gyra – Full Show live, Leverkusener Jazztage l 2022 | Rockpalast.
  33. ↑ NORD LIVE: Joshua Domfeh - City Lights.

Hotspot mushrooms

US creative corridors coexist with independent British/European, Japanese, Brazilian and Southeast Asian adoption. Broad fields follow durable local performance and listening cultures rather than individual virtuoso birthplaces or tour routes.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms
ID Location Latitude Longitude Radius (km) Strength Notes
jazz-fusion-northeast Northeastern US electric-jazz/fusion corridor 40.5 -74 900 1 Dense formative and continuing collaborative/recording worlds.
jazz-fusion-california California electric-jazz and fusion landscapes 36 -120 1000 0.9 Independent creative, production and specialist listening ecology.
jazz-fusion-europe British and European jazz-rock/fusion networks 49 4 1600 0.84 Substantial independent local traditions and transatlantic exchange.
jazz-fusion-japan Japanese fusion landscape 35.5 137 1000 1 Durable locally creative bands, musicians and audiences.
jazz-fusion-brazil Southeastern Brazilian jazz-fusion worlds -22 -44.5 1100 0.74 Independent instrumental production and international collaboration.
jazz-fusion-southeast-asia Western Indonesian–Malaysian fusion circuits -3 105 1450 0.53 Meaningful adopted instrumental and band culture, represented as lighter first-pass landscape.
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