World Fusion: Best Sellers

OK, this sounds like a pretty hokey concept: Pharoah Sanders and some of Bill Laswell's Material crew perform along with recordings of a heartbeat, supplied by Dr. Jean-Louis [more]

Examine the individual puzzle pieces comprising the sound of Slivovitz, and each piece isn't terribly avant-garde -- in fact, a mainstream sensibility can often be heard in the band's [more]

There's no denying that Slavic Soul Party! are inspired by the giants of Balkan brass, and on their fifth outing, they continue to grow in stature. What they create isn't some slavish [more]

Vocalist Leon Thomas was a close partner to saxophonist Pharoah Sanders in the late '60s and early '70s, having sung "The Creator Has a Master Plan" on 1969's [more]

For over 30 years, Hiroshima have established a singularly unique musical footprint in contemporary ethnic jazz fusion. Combining funky beats with synthesizers and their native Japanese [more]

While the wraparound spine-sleeve descriptor sheet that accompanies on Cyro Baptista's fourth Tzadik album Infinito claims that these are "experimental Brazilian pop [more]

It's no secret that calypso has been a major influence on Andy Narell, whose main instrument, the steel pan, originated in Trinidad. Narell isn't the only jazz [more]

Chick Corea and John McLaughlin share one of the great pedigrees in the music of the 20th century: they were both key sidemen on Miles Davis' seminal albums In a Silent Way [more]

The second entry in Gato Barbieri's series of Impulse albums dealing with Latin America picks up where the first one left off, and in its way, follows its format closely [more]

Fly is a co-op trio of saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Jeff Ballard, who have played together off-and-on, individually with many other [more]

Rightly or wrongly, much so-called avant-garde music is viewed as cerebral and inaccessible, somewhat lacking in pure enjoyment for a wide audience. Some have saddled [more]

Following up his 2008 debut Introducing Omer Klein with a solo piano work is something of a bold move, but the set of a dozen original compositions accomplishes its goal of establishing [more]

Jazz listeners outside of Israel, Boston, or New York City may not -- yet -- be familiar with the work of alto saxophonist and composer Uri Gurvich, and that's totally understandable. He [more]

If Eternal Rhythm was Don Cherry's world fusion masterpiece of the '60s, then Brown Rice is its equivalent for the '70s. But where Eternal Rhythm set global influences in a free jazz [more]

Clearly the most outerworldly and diverse Northwoods album released, Lightening Darkness is a journey into Middle Eastern music and free harmonic extractions. The title [more]