Respond to the prompt below with a minimum of 150 words and include at least two concepts or vocabulary terms from the textbook or lecture.
Compare this song. “Bitches Brew”
After a brief period of synergy in the 1930s when swing music became popular music, jazz and pop essentially developed in different directions. While jazz became much more experimental, pop captured the lion’s share of the public’s attention (and discretionary income). Frustrated in part by dwindling jazz audiences, the jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis released an album called Bitches Brew in 1970, which fused musical elements from jazz and rock. The resulting style became known as fusion and inspired many bands in the 1970s, including Return to Forever, Weather Report, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Listen to the track Spanish Key from Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew below. Which musical elements come from rock, and which come from jazz? Compare the timbres, techniques, instrumentation, and grooves in this song with music on this week’s playlist. What connections do you notice?
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