Top ten Jazz Rock Fusion Albums

1) Mahavisnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame
2) Return to Forever: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
3) Jeff Beck: There & Back
4) Jean Luc Ponty: Cosmic Messenger
5) Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays: As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls
6) Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson
7) Bruford: One of a Kind
8) Dixie Dregs: What If
9) Billy Cobham: Spectrum
10) Al Dimeola: Elegant Gypsy

Note: Chicago II, Steely Dan Aja and Santana Abraxas fall more on the Rock side of the equation than jazz so that is why they were not listed although, I think very highly of those albums.

Also, I just picked one album per artist. Had I not, there would have been a few more Mahavisnu Orchestra and Jeff Beck albums on this list.

I would have picked The Aristocrats first album, but they are listed as Heavy Prog on PA. Not sure I necessarily agree with that classification.


Edited by Big Sky - February 01 2024 at 10:48

I would like to add the eponymous album by Mantra from Spain, an exciting blend of jazzrock/fusion and the distinctive Rock Andaluz. Never released recordings are put on CD in 2012 by Arabian Rock 2012 (Música Inédita Rock Andaluz Collection - see Prog Archives info at their biography)

Edited by TenYearsAfter - March 01 2024 at 10:17

This is what I posted in a 2019 non-Svetonio sock puppet accounts thread which asks the same and is still open CLICK HERE . I am tempted to merge these threads.

Janko Nilovic - Rythmes Contemporains
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Miles Davis - Big Fun
Mandingo - The Primeval Rhythm of Life
Eddie Henderson - Realisation
Julian Priester - Love, Love
Embryo - Embryo's Rache
Perigeo - Genealogia
Soft Machine - Third
Placebo - Ball of Eyes

In fact, I will close this. Please put your lists in the other topic I linked to if you want to re-post them.

So I closed that other thread and moved most of the posts over to this older one (that I linked to before). So that above is now my list that I posted earlier in this thread.

Edited by Logan - March 01 2024 at 14:22

I prefer the other fusion thread that was recently closed. Most posts from this thread are from members who no longer participate in the forums. Why not close this thread and leave the other open? This five year old thread was bumped today.


Allan Holdsworth - i.o.u
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
Matteo Mancuso - The Journey
Mats Öberg - Visa från Inneröra
Owane - Yeah Whatever
Plini - Impulse Voices
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Chick Corea Elektric Band - Beneath the Mask
Virgil Donati - In This Life
Tohpati Ethnomission - Mata Hati


Edited by Grumpyprogfan - March 02 2024 at 00:28

^I see three possible Svet posts. I bet it's tiring, but the other thread was more interesting.

Didn't Svet start the Pete Sinfield thread also? Will you shut that down?

Edited by Grumpyprogfan - March 01 2024 at 14:04

Logan wrote: Most importantly being that he started it as he has been attracted to his topics (and often would rate them five stars). With some of his accounts I have batch deleted the posts using a spam tool, so there have been more. As I said in the other thread, I was considering merging the topics (kind of a hassle as it's one post at a time, but it's worth it for a more lively and interesting thread, and I will exclude the already suspended Svet accounts from it). Another way I have dealt with those threads if active has been to hide the posts of the user, although then that is confusing. Feel free to PM with any questions. I don't want to get into certain details here. Hopefully you and others find this thread know more interesting after merging posts.

"Svetonio"' thread's request was 'your favourite ten albums by the acts that are listed as jazz-rock/fusion in Progarchives.' That's why I omitted from my list, for example, the Soft Machine's" Bundles," as that band is in the Canterbury Scene PA section.