Subject: Fusion Jazz

• English Renaissance

  February 3, 1994

• Good Vibes

  June 16, 1994

• Critic's Choice

  September 14, 1995

• Jazz Royalty

  April 17, 1997

• Bass Boss

  May 15, 1997

• Rotation

  November 19, 1998

• Herbie Hancock Times Six

  December 24, 1998

• Rotation

  January 28, 1999

• Chick Corea & John McLaughlin

  March 26, 2009

• Houston's Jazz History

  September 4, 2008

• Miles Davis

  The Complete On the Corner Sessions

  January 17, 2008

• Free Movement

  February 16, 2006

• Softy Supergroup

  August 10, 2006

• Various artists

  Si Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba

  June 28, 2007

• Chaos Theory

  Fusion guitarist Al Di Meola's latest project

  December 7, 2006

• Various Artists

  Tropicália: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound

  June 1, 2006

• Victor Wooten

  Wooten opens for the Dave Matthews Band Monday, September 5, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2025 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are also on the bill.

  September 1, 2005

• Hand It to Herbie

  Houston's jazz-piano cats salute a giant in their field

  March 10, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  December 2, 2004

• Will to Live CD release party, with Eyeagainst, Pride Kills, Blood Ties and Blackchild Avatar

  Friday, April 4

  April 3, 2003

• Medeski, Martin and Wood

  Friday, May 10

  May 9, 2002

• Don Wilkerson

  The Complete Blue Note Sessions (Blue Note)

  July 26, 2001

• Hammond of the Gods

  Eugene Hawthorne ditches his bass and goes barefootin' with soul-jazz

  May 31, 2001

• Various Artists

  Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music (Columbia Legacy)

  January 25, 2001

• Gentleman of Jazz

  Ramsey Lewis storms into town with his fusion sound

  August 5, 1999

• Pop Jazz Masters

  July 8, 1999

• Jandek, MV + EE

  April 30, 2009

• Blue Notes: Return to Forever's Return to Forever Returns

  Return to Forever Return to Forever Returns www.return2forever.comAh, jazz fusion, what a conundrum of musical styles. Too heavily instrumental and dexterous for rock fans, too spacey and electric guitar-based for jazzbos, it has a small but dedicated following all weaned on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew. During its '70s heyday, the Chick Corea-led Return to Forever was perhaps the genre's most successful band, and this double-CD set documents the group's 2008 reunion tour with its classic lineup of

  May 7, 2009