Jazz Rock

Jazz rock is known as a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock music, complex time signatures derived from non-western music and extended typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations often using wind and brass and displayed a high level of instrumental technique. The term "jazz rock" is often used as a synonym for "jazz fusion" as well as for music performed by late 1960s and 1970s era rock bands that added jazz elements to their music.