The Fents for Jazz Rock/Fusion
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Topic: The Fents for Jazz Rock/Fusion
Posted By: Lamneth
Subject: The Fents for Jazz Rock/Fusion
Date Posted: August 17 2016 at 12:02
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Matt Sweizer from Canvas Prog Hour has featured this band a lot, and turned me on to them years ago. The Fents were a high energy instrumental jazz fusion band from the 80's. Albums: 1982: First Offense Passport Jazz Produced by Adam Holzman also reissued and re-mastered by Ted Hall with 3 bonus tracks (last 3 tracks listed below) Cover Art: http://www.progulus.com/pictures/fents-first.jpg Tracks:
1987: The Other Side Big Fun Records Produced by Paul Rothchildd Cover Art: http://www.progulus.com/pictures/fents-other.jpg Tracks:
Adam Holzman - keyboards Ted Hall - guitar Doug Hodges - bass Larry Anderson - drums Laurence Cottle - bass Moyes Lucas - drums Links http://www.adamholzman.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.adamholzman.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckf4zVqcupg http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/the-fents http://www.proggnosis.com/Release_Detail.aspx?RID=6580 |
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Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: August 17 2016 at 16:31
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Both albums are on YouTube in full (though the 'First Offense' album is called 'The First of Fents', which - if you exclude the four-track self-titled 12" EP released prior to it in 1979 - I guess it is!!): There was a recommendation for the 'First Offense' album in the Prog Recommendations/Featured albums section of this forum by Special Collaborator Alucard back in http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=47010" rel="nofollow - March 2008 . Certainly sounds like a decent shot for JR/F to me, particularly based on the earlier of the two albums...but I'm no expert on the sub genre.  Edit: Corrected spelling of 'Offense' (I had previously written 'Offence'...but no offence meant.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 17 2016 at 17:02
| ^We'll check them, thanks. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: August 19 2016 at 12:23
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I thought they were rejected by one of the teams I'm on some years ago, but i can't find the posts. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: August 19 2016 at 13:21
I'm a bit on The Fents for this one. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: Lamneth
Date Posted: August 19 2016 at 15:58
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First Offence ...
First of Fents I've had the album forever and that's the first time I made that pun/connection. Duh. Pretty clever! It's not comprehensible to me why this band would have been rejected. Gamalon is on here and they are a similar mileau. There are way less proggy/more jazzy fusion bands on here. |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: August 19 2016 at 21:54
Stranger things have been known, but I reckon they might have the wind with them this time around - that first album (and the debut EP) are really good imo...and the second album ain't bad either. The fact that they are similar to another band who are already here isn't taken into account on this site, I'm afraid - each decision is based solely on what the team members feel about the music of the particular band they are considering at that moment - and no others. Fingers crossed eh?
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Lamneth wrote:Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 06 2016 at 03:50
| Added http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=9958" rel="nofollow - The Fents . |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 10:41
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The listing for the 1979 ep lists an Eddy Marron on drums; is that the same Eddy Marron that played guitar/sitar/zaz in Dzyan and Vita Nova, among others? |