joy one type of music, another man could hate it. It can be frustrating to try to persuade skeptics that musicians they do not like make real music. Many people have these feelings toward rap and hip-hop. The result of jazz fusing together with hip-hop may, by association, help to enhance the cultural significance of rap. If the people do not understand rap after this, they never will (Farley 51).Fusion is back, although it never really went away, as the many millions of Kenny G. fans would prove. In the 1960s, many jazz musicians found themselves marginalized by rock and soul. Then, in 1970, Miles Davis received the first gold record of his life for "Bitches Brew", a sonic eye opener that experimented with electric instruments and rock and funk rhythms. A whole generation of musicians was squandering its talents on an increasingly vapid, yet profitable jazz, which came to be known as fusion. Known today as smooth jazz, fusion continued to thrive. It even has its own Billboard chart (Handy 25).Extremely too many styles of jazz exist to name all of them. One of the most common types of jazz is swing. Swing emerged during the early 1930s and emphasized big bands. It spilled into the late 1940s and then remained popular in recordings, film, and television music long after its main proponents had disbanded. Most swing style groups had at least ten musicians: four saxophones, two to three trumpets, two to three trombones, piano, guitar, bass guitar, and drums. Journalists and jazz fans drew distinctions between bands that conveyed the most hard-driving rhythmic qualities and extensive solo improvisations and those that conveyed less swing feeling and improvisations. The former were swing or hot bands; the later were called sweet bands. Though large dance bands existed before the swing era, big band music, as a concept for music fans, developed most firmly during this era and persisted for decades thereafter. This style caus...
