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Enough talk of lyrics. Which Jazz Rock/Fusion or Fusion inspired albums do you feel are essential? And I said essential, not favorites. Wink


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All of them! Great subgenre filled with too many to think of. The obvious JF101 would be Mahavishnu Orch, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock. Go to the top 250 prog album list and then filter for jazz fusion. I haven t heard every album but there are zero that i have that i don t like (maybe half of them)
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Two of my fav : 

LA BANDA ELASTICA 2  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHmU4EEBvDw

DUELLO MADRE

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My personal list.

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
Herbie Hancock - Crossing
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Ax Du Fou
Pekka Pohjola - Harakka Bialoipokku
Sloche - Stadacone
Bill Bruford - One Of A Kind
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Here are the best and most essential according to me:

Herbie Hancock
Crossings
Big Fun
Miles Davis

Stone Flute
Herbie Mann
The Call
Mal Waldron
Afric Pepperbird
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival
John Handy (first Jazrock-fusion album ever released!!!!)
Love, Love
Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto
Get Up With It
Miles Davis
Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
Terje Rypdal
Terje Rypdal (1971)
Odyssey of Iska
Wayne Shorter
Return to Forever
Return to Forever / Chick Corea
Weather Report
Weather Report

Realization
Eddie Henderson
Electric Byrd
Donald Byrd
The Jewel in the Lotus
Bennie Maupin
San Francisco
Bobby Hutcherson

I Sing the Body Electric
Weather Report

Earwax
Association P.C.

Temple of Birth
Jeremy Steig
Down by the Naked City
The Freedom Unity

Candy Clouds
Hans Dulfer & Ritmo Natural
We'll Talk About It Later
Nucleus
Elastic Rock
Nucleus
Infra-Red
Dave Pike Set

Amalgamation (Kokotsu no Showa Genroku)
Masahiko Satoh & Sound Breakers
Moto Grosso Feio
Wayne Shorter
Light as a Feather
Chick Corea and Return to Forever

Freeflight
Ahmad Jamal
Fourth
Soft Machine
Dedalus
Dedalus
What Comes After
Terje Rypdal

Floating Music
Stomu Yamash'ta

Tribute
Paul Motian

Cinemascope
Joachim Kühn
Innocent Canon
Inomata Takeshi & Sound Limited
Ramadan
Björn J:son Lindh

Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away
Terje Rypdal

Jan Garbarek 
Sart

Monium
Jeremy Steig

Miles Davis
In a Silent Way

The Morning After the Third
Hans Dulfer & Ritmo Natural

Sun Rotation
Association P.C.

Noisy Silence - Gentle Noise
Dave Pike Set
Bent City
Phil Yost



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Are you starting from scratch?  The top JR/F albums here aren't a terrible place to start.  (Unfortunately, due to the quirks of how we do things, Kind of Blue is there and while fantastic is obviously not jazz rock or fusion).

Personally, love Miles fusion stuff (particularly In a Silent Way and Bitches' Brew), first two from Weather Report (still like their other ones), Herbie's Mwandishi trilogy (Mwandishi, Sextant, Crossings).  Others that should be checked out are Mahavishnu (Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, and maybe some later ones) and Return to Forever (Hymn of the 7th Galaxy and Romantic Warrior).  Love Jaco's solo album.  Love post-Third Soft Machine.

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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Are you starting from scratch?  The top JR/F albums here aren't a terrible place to start.  (Unfortunately, due to the quirks of how we do things, Kind of Blue is there and while fantastic is obviously not jazz rock or fusion).
Hence the question.
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Well you've probably already got enough to get started.  Saperlipopette's list in particular should keep you occupied.  Wink
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Well you've probably already got enough to get started.  Saperlipopette's list in particular should keep you occupied.  Wink
My personal list is a lot longer than his. LOL
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Ah, I thought you were asking for recommendations.
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Brand X – Unorthodox Behavior
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Ah, I thought you were asking for recommendations.
No, I got into on and off from Brand X and some of Zappa's stuff and it kind of grew from there.
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Ah, I thought you were asking for recommendations.
Oh, I see your confusion. I was just agreeing with you on the listed Miles Davis albums. Great but not fusion. My bad.
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Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior / Where Have I Known You Before?
Weather Report - Heavy Weather

Now THIS is my kind of thread! Tongue
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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 17 2014 at 11:07
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Are you starting from scratch?  The top JR/F albums here aren't a terrible place to start. 


Wow, I haven't looked at that in a long time. That list of albums has changed, though some have managed to stay in the top spots since I joined this site. Hiromi's "Time Control" is considered the best jazz-fusion album on this site. Interesting.
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Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Are you starting from scratch?  The top JR/F albums here aren't a terrible place to start. 


Wow, I haven't looked at that in a long time. That list of albums has changed, though some have managed to stay in the top spots since I joined this site. Hiromi's "Time Control" is considered the best jazz-fusion album on this site. Interesting.


That is a bit funny.  I really do enjoy that album, but, yeah.
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Are you starting from scratch?  The top JR/F albums here aren't a terrible place to start. 


Wow, I haven't looked at that in a long time. That list of albums has changed, though some have managed to stay in the top spots since I joined this site. Hiromi's "Time Control" is considered the best jazz-fusion album on this site. Interesting.


That is a bit funny.  I really do enjoy that album, but, yeah.


I do too. I think it's one of the best modern jazz-rock albums, but I'd put plenty of 70s jazz-rock albums above it in an all-time list.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Here are the best and most essential according to me
My superlong list is slightly flawed as it's based on a 60's and a 70-75 jazz list I've made elsewhere and just removed all the non-fusion releases. 69-75 are my favorite jazzrock years but I obviously still  dig plenty of jazzrock made after.
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Anything by Passport from the seventies.

The first three If albums.

The Dedalus debut.

The classic Colosseum period, their first four albums.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Enough talk of lyrics. Which Jazz Rock/Fusion or Fusion inspired albums do you feel are essential? And I said essential, not favorites. Wink


Mahavishnu Orchestra "Birds of Fire"



Stanley Clarke "Schooldays"



Weather Report "Night Passage"



Jeff Beck "Wired"



Al Di Meola "Elegant Gypsy"



The Carla Bley Band "Music Mecanique"





Edited by schizoidman - September 17 2014 at 12:59
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