Fusion Artists
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Topic: Fusion Artists
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Subject: Fusion Artists
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 16:20
I am going to be joining one of my school's Jazz bands at the beginning of next year. I was wondering if anyone had a few really good Fusion albums to kick-start me into jazz as a gnere, because I love the music, but I don't listen to it as much as I should. Any suggestions, perferably with some very good drums.
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 16:24
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frank zappa and captain beefheart have great jazz elements ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: Prog_Bassist
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 16:26
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Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior Weather Report - Heavy Weather Weather Report - Mr. Gone Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Outbound (has Jon Anderson and Adrian Belew as special guests!!!  )------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuxaD8NzaY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuxaD8NzaY |
Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 16:52
RETURN TO FOREVER - ROMANTIC WARRIOR Mahavisnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Miles Davis- In a Silent Way Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before Tony William's Lifetime - Emergency! Tony William's Lifetime - The Collection (two albums on one CD) Weather Report - Sweetnighter Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller Weather Report - Tale Spinnin' Herbie Hancock - Sextant Herbie Hancock - Headhunters (more funk than fusion) Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life (more jazz than fusion) Al DiMeola - Land of the Midnight Sun Al DiMeola - Elegant Gypsy Lenny White - Venusian Summer Larry Coryell - Spaces Jean Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean Jean Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage Chick Corea - The Leprauchun (sp?) Chick Corea - The Mad Hatter Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius + other stuff Other jazz to know: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!) Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool John Coltrane - Giant Steps John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Wayne Shorter - Footprints Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Islands Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Cannonball Adderly - Mercy Mercy Mercy Getz/Gilberto Larry Young - Unity (great hammond b-3 player) And of course Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Wes Montgomery, Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Cannonball Adderly, Joe Zawinul, Duke Ellington, etc etc etc If you're joining a jazz band, I'd suggest picking up what they call "fake books," which are books with standard jazz combo 60s pieces that have the head (main melody) and the jamming changes. Have fun! ------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
alan_pfeifer wrote:Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 16:53
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oh you're a drummer! BILLY COBHAM!!! Get SPECTRUM by BILLY COBHAM!!! AMAZING RECORDING!!! I have to say, some of these people should be in the archives... but I won't start anything.  ------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 17:13
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You might want to check out:
Brand X: Unorthodox Behaviour Brand X: Moroccan Roll And in addition to Cobham's excellent Spectrum, you might want to give his Crosswinds as listen as well. |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 17:43
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Thanks
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 18:17
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Tony Williams' Lifetime : Believe it Deus ex machina : De Republica Spastic ink : Ink complete Dixie Dregs : What if Bruford : One of a kind
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 18:40
Believe It is very good... thats one of the albums on "The Collection". Snake Oil is such a hot song. WHEW!!! Sweet bass line, and Holdsworth is an axe god. Is Deus Ex Machina really fusion? They have a vocalist. Doesn't that rule them out? ------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 18:47
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tasavallan presedentti uzeb spaced out ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 18:49
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You may as well begin to listen to more purist jazz players. From the roots, try some Armstrong, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker. ------------- Please forgive me for my crappy english! |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 19:41
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While I have listened to most of the "pure" jazz players, and as much as I respect them, I have a hard time really getting into and really enjoying most jazz. That's why I thought artists in the fusion area of jazz would be a little more to my liking |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 20:15
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how about some down south cookin'?
funky jazz fusion Booker T and the MG's - Melting Pot Ry Cooder - Jazz Al Kooper - Rekooperation Wynton Marsalis - Mr. Jelly, Lord Ronnie Earl - Colour of Love Dixie Dregs - Freefall |
Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 22:40
Wynton Marsalis?!  Marsalis is to jazz what Collins is to prog rock! Total lack of originality and a sellout! Maybe not a sellout to pop, but a sellout from creative jazz. Rehashing 60s swing jazz isn't doing anything for the genre. Kenny G and Marsalis are, in my mind's eye, different sides of the same bad token. ------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 23:15
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if you heard this recording you might eat your words,
who knows. Jelly Morton lived 1890 - 1941, this is a take on 20's jazz. Brilliant IMO, forgetting the junk he has done. |
Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 23:24
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Weather Report: Black Market, Heavy Weather and Night Passage are a must. If you have limited cash I would start with Bitches Brew though. Or Heavy Weather.
Gaston -------------  
It's the same guy. Great minds think alike. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: February 24 2005 at 01:01
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What about some violin fussion by Jean Luc Ponty, try:
You won't regret. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 24 2005 at 03:36
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Sweetnighter's list is absolutely indisputable & excellent but I would definitely add: Ian Carr's Nucleus Early Keith Tippet (up to Centipede) Santana's Caravanserai, Illuminations (with Alice Coltrane) and his collaboration with Mc Laughlin hommage to Coltrane. My fave jazz record and the real must with Kind Of Blue is Coltrane's A Love Supreme
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 24 2005 at 03:51
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But I would humble suggest, not your immediate suspects as jazz rock fusion;try:
Lifetime (in its two forms), 11th House, Mahavishnu Orchestra (also try the currently operating Mahavishnu Project), Return To For Ever , check out the current thread elsewhere on Weather Report, Brand X (check their modernday reincarnation, Tunnels), a heap of Bruford albums currently being reissued, Allan Holdsworth, Tribal Tech (Rocket Science is a blast). ETC |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 24 2005 at 03:52
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How could I forget this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Too early in the morning to be fully awake? |
Posted By: L.V.X.
Date Posted: February 24 2005 at 05:11
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Rabih Abou Khalil - Al-Jadida
Anouar Brahem - Khomsa ------------- Tired of typing the same search parameters on Gemm, MusicStack, eBay etc. -> http://www.musicsearcher.com/search/index.php?firstgo=2&goartist=&gotitle=&golabel= - Link |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 24 2005 at 06:38
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First time I've seen the Fuzakian/muzakian Kenny G and classisist (and virtuoso) Wynton Marsalis mentioned together - personally, opposite ends of another jazz spectrum. The closest you get Maraslis playing jazz fusion is on one of those CTI albums Fuse One, otherwise he's the doyen of jazz: America's classical music. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 24 2005 at 06:42
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Hey Dallas
That suggestion is quite inspirational. May I add Fats Waller? 20 years ago I found a LP of 30's keyboard jazz by Waller,with 3 tracks played on an cinema organ (hey that was progressive for the time). |