Welcome to the new MaD Fusion website. You can find here a complete listing of Mad Fusion's concert and touring schedule, reviews, and sound clips from our CD Forget Me Not and live concert recordings. We'll also keep you updated on all our projects in planning. To give you a more complete picture of the MaD Fusion experience, check out lots of new video clips of live performances and interviews on our MySpace page: www.myspace.com/madfusion. There's also some great live recordings and brand new material on the Media page, so check it out and feel free to write us with your feedback. You can also find links on the Contact page to related projects and artists' websites involving MaD Fusion members.

Latest News >

Just confirmed: we're playing the Montreal International Jazz Festival on July 2! We'll be performing our MaD Gershwin program, with special guests singer Coral Egan and saxophonist Charles Papasoff. We'll play a few selections from our Forget Me Not show. Check the Tour page for details.

Barry Manilow, "In The Swing of Christmas" goes Gold!
Our fun, quirky jazz Christmas album with Barry Manilow has officially gone gold. Unfortunately we don't know exactly how many sales it reached, but we know it's way up there Thanks to all of you who supported it! Check out photos from the session with Barry in Las Vegas on the new Blog page.

Click here to see Matt Herskowitz and Barry in a crazy performance on Access Hollywood:

Stay tuned for a continuously updated blog report on all the exciting, bizarre and surreal events that have plagued us on our travels, starting with our tour of Belgium this past January. Fellow musicians, some of it you'll know, but I'm sure some of it you won't!

MaD Fusion pianist Matt Herskowitz has just released his own solo Gershwin CD, "Matt Herskowitz Plays Gershwin". It's garnering amazing reviews from all over, and he's doing lots of touring with it. To see where Matt's playing this show in your area, check out the reviews and find out where you can get a copy of the CD, please visit his website: www.mattherskowitz.com.

Check out the new mixes of our MaD Gershwin project on the Media page. Featuring Lara Fabian on I Loves You Porgy, Coral Egan on Summertime, and the great Napoleon Murphy Brock (from Frank Zappa fame) on Someone To Watch Over Me - and once again the great Lew Soloff on trumpet! 

.We're now part of a great new music company, New Vox Media! Explore more of MaD Fusion, it's members' projects and lots of other like-minded great artists at www.newvoxmedia.com.


Upcoming projects for MaD Fusion >

• MaD Gershwin - an all Gershwin CD, featuring original, hip, contemporary and totally fresh arrangements of Gershwin classics. MaD Fusion will form the base of the group, with horns, string quartet and a variety of singers complimenting the recording. MaD Fusion will also tour with this project in the 2007-2008 season with the core trio plus horn and singer, as well as in an expanded arrangement with full orchestra. In an early incarnation of this project, one reviewer wrote:
"This was post-Miles Davis, post-Bill Evans, post-just-about-everyone stuff. Gershwin's tunes were at the core of the music, even if you had to listen pretty hard at times, but the style was contemporary. Terrific fun" (Ottawa Citizen). And that was just the first draft!

• From Bach to Brubeck - MaD Fusion with small chamber ensembles, featuring our original arrangements of classical repertoire - redefines the term "crossover" and completely turns it on its head. Will also be arranged for MaD Fusion and orchestra.

• The Three Stages of Truth: an incredible, brand new 90-minute concerto for MaD Fusion and orchestra by "certifiable" New York composer Gene Pritzker.

• MaD World - our unique take of world music. Developing what Forget Me Not touched upon, MaD World focuses solely on world music, honing, developing and transforming it through their own lens. The show is derived from their direct experiences with great music and musicians from all over the world, and includes Arab, South American, Indian, African and Yiddish music, among others. Their introduction to much of this music has been through their performances with some of the most accomplished world-music performers and composers, including Marcel Khalife, Dhafer Yousef, Theresa Tova and Paquito d’Rivera. MaD Fusion’s arrangements of the music, while based in the real traditions, are wrapped in their unique sound, formed by the ability to seamlessly traverse the many styles and disciplines that has become their trademark. With MaD World, MaD Fusion adds the styles, sounds and techniques of music from around the world to their repertoire, further adding to the ‘stew’ of their musical palette. MaD World both celebrates and renews some of the world’s oldest musical traditions to form a show which is truly without borders. 

• The Pop Project - featuring all original songs with a pop twist and lots of groove, always with our unique sound.