Alphonse Mouzon for Jazz fusion - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Alphonse Mouzon's album _Mind Transplant_ is part of the large canon of jazz fusion, and contains IMO perhaps the best example of the late great Tommy Bolin's playing.

I did a search and didn't see this suggested before.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRj02qk1K0o&feature=related

There is a "Alphonse Mouzon with tommy bolin 2" video in the choices on the right.

This is the lead review on Amazon FWIW

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

All Time Fusion Top 10, July 20, 2003

By A Customer

This is the runner-up to Cobham's famous "Spectrum" album in the heavyweight

championship of 1970s fusion drumming & in some ways it's even better. Granted,

Mouzon does not play half as many odd-meters as Cobham (who was the ultimate

master of odds along with Bill Bruford), but there's something wilder & more greasy

about Mouzon's deep smacking grooves, solos & ultra-fast fills that puts things

really over-the-top. The Tommy Bolin jams are fantastic--the slow-burn grooves like

Golden Rainbows & Snowbound custom-made for cruising & the scorching

"Nitroglycerine" for more spaztic moods--but for me "Ascorbic Acid" with

Lee Ritenour is the ultimate track on here, the one to use to blow people completely

away. Anyone asks you who the fastest drummer in the world is & even mentions

someone like Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Smith or Neal Peart, just play them that track

& watch them shut-up real quick! It just smokes them into complete awed submission

& after that there might be discussions about other aspects of what makes a great

drummer but arguments about speed are history.

So, it would have to naturally follow from the strong, enthusiastic words written above

that in the pantheon of 'greatest ever fusion albums with plenty of wailing electric

guitar,' "Mind Transplant" would have to rate at around number nine, number nine

number nine, number nine, number nine............. Here's the rest of my list in case

fusion fanatics are interested:

1. Mahavishnu - Cleveland 1972
2. Mahavishnu - The Inner Mounting Flame
3. Mahavishnu - Birds of Fire
4. Mahavishnu - Between Nothingness & Eternity
5. Mahavishnu - Lost Trident Sessions
6. Billy Cobham - Spectrum
7. Nova - Blink
6. Bill Bruford - One of A Kind
7. Brand X - Livestock
8. Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean
9. Alphonse Mouzon - "Mind Transplant"
10.John Abercrombie - Timeless
11. Bill Bruford - Gradually Going Tornado
12. Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus
13. Alan Holdsworth I.O.U.
14. Lenny White - Adventures of Astral Pirates
15. Larry Coryell - Barefoot Boy
16. Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour
17. Soft Machine - "Softs"
18. Eleventh House with Larry Coryell
19. Bill Bruford - Feels Good To Me
20. Colosseum - Electric Savage

Edited by Negoba - February 21 2009 at 09:04

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.

I remember asking the JR/F team to check out Mouzon's YouTube videos to see if he was a suitable candidate ...

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