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Topic: Top ten Jazz Rock Fusion AlbumsPosted By: Jzrk
Subject: Top ten Jazz Rock Fusion Albums
Date Posted: February 19 2019 at 20:41
As a sub genre it is one of my favorites. But I am more stuck in the past. Not in order these would be my favorites from the genre Return To Forever Romantic Warrior Jean Luc Ponty Engimatic Ocean Passport Cross Collateral Al DiMeola Elegant Gypsie Al DiMeila Land Of The Midnight Sun Billy Cobham Spectrum The Crusaders Free As The Wind Stanley Clarke Stanley Clarke Jean Luc Ponty Upon The Wings Of Music Weather Report Black Market
Replies: Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 19 2019 at 20:53
Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic - s/t
Alain Eckert Quartet - s/t
Camembert - Negative Toe
Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Axe Du Fou
Herbie Hancock - Crossing
Return To Forever Romantic Warrior
Phlox - Talu
Neil Ardley - Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows
Rahmann - s/t
Planeta Imaginario - Optical Delusions
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 19 2019 at 21:18
Just the first ten that I thought of, could be others.
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
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: February 19 2019 at 22:09
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue David Torn - Door X Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Henry Kaiser and Bob Bralove - The Celestial Squid Weather Report - Heavy Weather Pat Metheny - Letter From Home
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: February 19 2019 at 23:10
Exivious - S/T (Don't care what anyone says, it's a fusion album) Return to Forever- Romantic Warrior Shadowfax - Watercourse Way Brand X - Livestock Bruford - One of a Kind Alex Machacek - Featuring Ourselves Johansen, Johansen, and Holdsworth - Heave Machinery Panzerballett - Star Stuckë Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Lost Trident Sessions Hiromi - Time Control
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 00:24
These four are "forever" in my top ten
Logan wrote:
Herbie Hancock - Crossings Miles Davis - Big Fun Eddie Henderson - Realisation Julian Priester - Love, Love
too difficult so I decided to cheat...an additiional top ten (excluding all Zeuhl/Canterbury jazz-albums). Also, I know I forgotten something essential and (as always) I only allow myself one album per artist/band:
Terje Rypdal - Terje Rypdal Wayne Shorter - Odyssey of Iska Dedalus - Dedalus Bennie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus Weather Report - Weather Report Arnie Lawrence - and Treasure Island Association PC - Earwax Björn J:son Lindh - Cous Cous Charles Lloyd - Waves Randy Masters and Solar Plexus - Voices
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 02:06
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Miles Davis - Big Fun
UK - S/T
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Weather Report - Black Market
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Billy Cobham - Total Eclipse
Frank Zappa - Waka Jawaka
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 02:11
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic - s/t
Which version??
Logan wrote:
]Mandingo - Pimeval Rhythm Of Life
amazing stuff, though I'm not sure I would tag it as JR/F.. and too bad only the first is available
No particular order
Santana Caravanserai
Herbie Hancock - Crossings or Sextant
Mahavishnu Orch - Inner Mounting Erection (as like to call it)
Return To Forever - Seventh Galazxy
Neil Ardley - Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Perigeo - Azimut Soft Machine - Six
Placebo - Ball of Eyes or 1973
Nucleus - We'll Talk About It Later
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Maneige - Libre Service
Sloche - J'Un Śil
I'm sure I forget many
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 05:23
Sean Trane wrote:
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic - s/t
Which version??
I have the Tzadik CD from 2012.
Should really have added Zappa - Hot Rats.
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 05:33
Giger Lenz Marron-Beyond
Giger Lenz Marron-Where The Hammer Hangs
Dzyan-Time Machine
Dzyan-Electric Silence
Passport-Looking Thru
Dedalus-Dedalus
Colosseum Live
Passport-Infinity Machine
Il Baricentro-Sconcerto
If-If
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 05:34
Jzrk wrote:
As a sub genre it is one of my favorites. But I am more stuck in the past. Not in order these would be my favorites from the genre Return To Forever Romantic Warrior Jean Luc Ponty Engimatic Ocean Passport Cross Collateral Al DiMeola Elegant Gypsie Al DiMeila Land Of The Midnight Sun Billy Cobham Spectrum The Crusaders Free As The Wind Stanley Clarke Stanley Clarke Jean Luc Ponty Upon The Wings Of Music Weather Report Black Market
Passport-yeah! They are criminally under-rated on PA
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 05:52
Posted By: Jzrk
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 07:54
Passport is one of my all time favorites.I like e the early albums 70’s output Hand Made ,Looking Through,Infinity Machine and their first two They have a rock type attitude but with a space jazz sound.
Posted By: Jzrk
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 07:57
Of course you can never make a line at ten I would have also included Herbie Hancock Headhunters Can’t believe I forgot to have it in my list
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 08:23
Sean Trane wrote:
Logan wrote:
]Mandingo - Primeval Rhythm Of Life
amazing stuff, though I'm not sure I would tag it as JR/F.. and too bad only the first is available
Instead of a JRF album, it's more of a JFF album, which at this board would generally refer to the "Just For Fun" forum, but I mean Just For Funk, erm, no, Jazz/Funk Fusion. It's really better described as funky exotica with psych qualities, but I like to think a little of the box when coming with up with choices. I did consider going with Mandingo III first actually, which is more Jazz-Rocky while still having that funky side, but I'd still put it in a funky exotica realm.
EDIT: That should be a little "out of the box". I can't write coherently, let alone think coherently.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 08:39
Saperlipopette! wrote:
These four are "forever" in my top ten
Logan wrote:
Herbie Hancock - Crossings Miles Davis - Big Fun Eddie Henderson - Realisation Julian Priester - Love, Love
too difficult so I decided to cheat...an additiional top ten (excluding all Zeuhl/Canterbury jazz-albums). Also, I know I forgotten something essential and (as always) I only allow myself one album per artist/band:
Terje Rypdal - Terje Rypdal Wayne Shorter - Odyssey of Iska Dedalus - Dedalus Bennie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus Weather Report - Weather Report Arnie Lawrence - and Treasure Island Association PC - Earwax Björn J:son Lindh - Cous Cous Charles Lloyd - Waves Randy Masters and Solar Plexus - Voices
Love all the others in your list, but I don't think that I've heard Charles Lloyd's Waves (going to search for that). I was thinking about adding The Jewel In The Lotus (would make sense considering others in my list) and Weather Report's I Sing the Body Electric (love the first two WR albums). A few others I would have liked to mention include Donald Byrd's Electric Byrd, Lenny White's Venusian Summer (mostly for the suite), Magma's Kobaia (the hundin Zeuhl band's satisfyingly jazz fusion album), Mal Waldron's The Call and even if a stretch, both Lalo Schifrin's Rock Requiem and Bob James' One.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 09:07
presdoug wrote:
Jzrk wrote:
As a sub genre it is one of my favorites. But I am more stuck in the past. Not in order these would be my favorites from the genre Return To Forever Romantic Warrior Jean Luc Ponty Engimatic Ocean Passport Cross Collateral Al DiMeola Elegant Gypsie Al DiMeila Land Of The Midnight Sun Billy Cobham Spectrum The Crusaders Free As The Wind Stanley Clarke Stanley Clarke Jean Luc Ponty Upon The Wings Of Music Weather Report Black Market
Passport-yeah! They are criminally under-rated on PA
Perhaps those people who hold it in too low regard should be put under arrest for holding a "fake passport" perspective. ;) Pretty poor stab at humour....
I've heard the Passport debut album and quite liked it but not any of the others. EDIT: That might be taken wrong, I mean that I only have heard the Passort- Doldinger debut, and not later albums, at least not in full.
I've been a fan of Doldinger since the 80s, but mostly for his "Das Boot" film score.
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 11:12
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame Weather Report - Sweetnighter If - iF, If 2, If 3, If 4 Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before Herbie Hancock (Head Hunters) - Thrust Jean Luc Ponty - Individual Choice The Eleventh House - Introducing The Eleventh House with Larry Coryell David Sancious - True Stories CAB (Tony MacAlpine, Bunny Brunel, Dennis Chambers, Patrice Rushen) - CAB 4 Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 11:30
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior Unsung Heroes - Dixie Dregs
Dave Weckl - Synergy Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
Mahavishnu Orchestra-Visions of the Emerald Beyond Weather Report - Heavy Weather Chick Corea - The Chick Corea Electric Band
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:48
[Exivious - S/T (Don't care what anyone says, it's a fusion album)]
Listening now and I hear elements of fusion and prog metal(or heavy prog at least). They are listed on here as prog metal though(not that PA is always 100 percent right; I disagree with labels they gave other bands too). I would say they are the same category as Planet X(whatever that is). So yeah metal fusion if there is such a thing.
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 14:05
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 16:27
Association P.C. - Erna Morena
Didier Malherbe - Bloom
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Earthworks
Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Dig?
Al di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco
Brand X - Livestock
Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
Kraan - Live
James Blood Ulmer - Black Rock
Special Guests I, listed in other genres:
Fred Frith & Keep The Dog: The House We Lived In
Gong - Shamal
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Soft Machine - Seven
Special guests II, not on PA:
Tied and Tickled Trio - Observing Systems
Michele Rosewoman - Quintessence
Ah, hard decisions!!
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 20 2019 at 16:53
MortSahlFan wrote:
Al Di Meola (any album)
Don't know if I'd say any album-- some of his 80s/90s stuff is Adult Contempo trash.
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Posted By: tribalfusions
Date Posted: February 21 2019 at 07:30
Not one Tribal Tech album or Wayne Krantz record (among others)?
Very strange 'fusion' lists.
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: March 08 2019 at 04:22
tribalfusions wrote:
Not one Tribal Tech album or Wayne Krantz record (among others)?
Very strange 'fusion' lists.
Of course, you could easily rectify this by posting your own list...
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: March 08 2019 at 04:52
Lest I be accused of hypocrisy:
Aka Moon - Rebirth
Gregg Bendian's Interzone - Requiem for Jack Kirby
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Last Exit - Iron Path
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame*
Pekka Pohjola - Harakka Bialoipokku
Soft Machine - Fourth
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Todd Sickafoose Group - Tiny Resistors
Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric
*...but it has got to be the version with the 15-minute live version of Noonward Race tacked on. Easily my favourite Mahvishnu track.
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: March 08 2019 at 06:28
Atavachron wrote:
MortSahlFan wrote:
Al Di Meola (any album)
Don't know if I'd say any album-- some of his 80s/90s stuff is Adult Contempo trash.
Yeah, I should have said "Any 70s albums"... I could say that about 99% of my favorite bands. Same with movies; they just went downhill and never recovered.
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: March 21 2019 at 21:10
Billy Cobham - Spectrum Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson Bruford - One of a Kind Mahavishnu Orchestra- The Inner Mounting Flame Miroslav Vitous - Mountain in the Clouds Al DiMeola - Splendido Motel Eddie Henderson - Sunburst Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue Dixie Dregs - What If
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 22 2019 at 00:01
All excellent selections! Let me mix it up a bit:
John McLaughlin - Shakti
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before?
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Brand X - Masques
Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
Gong - Espresso
Al Dimeola - Land of the Midnight Sun
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
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Posted By: Whamdaddy
Date Posted: April 09 2019 at 09:22
A lot of great albums here, many I have forgotten about in my heap of getting through every album I have acquired
one omission I think needs to be out there is The first Chicago Transit Authority, kinda my intro to Jazz fusion
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: April 09 2019 at 10:03
1) The United Jazz and Rock Ensemble - Teamwork
2) Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
3) Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
4) Weather Report - Black Market
5) Oregon - Winter Light
6) Gong - Shamal
7) Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior
8) Release Music Orchestra - Garuda
9) Bruford - Feels Good to Me
10) Terje Rypdal - Odyssey
the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble was in my opinion the best jazz rock/fusion band ever, even better than the 3 so-called "big ones" of that genre, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever and Weather Report
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: April 10 2019 at 06:48
here 2 tracks from "Teamwork" by the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble:
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: April 10 2019 at 08:43
^ Never heard this band before. Just checked it out, very cool!
Posted By: VicRelayer
Date Posted: April 10 2019 at 15:07
I have some doubts. Could Camel be considered a Jazz Rock band in a few moments? I'm thinking in the Mel Collins' era.
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 10 2019 at 18:18
I think that's stretching it for Camel.They aren't even canterbury except for in a few places. I don't even consider Caravan to be jazz rock/fusion. A band like Soft Machine though would be both Canterbury and jazz rock.
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 11 2019 at 01:45
Argo2112 wrote:
^ Never heard this band before. Just checked it out, very cool!
This is not surprising. Their albums were recorded on their own label "Mood Records". The albums of this label were until 2014 exclusively distributed by the German shop chain Zweitausendeins (meaning 2001) that started with a shop in Frankfurt and in their heydays had shops in fourteen German cities (among them Berlin and Cologne, where I still live). You could mail-order from this shop chain, but you had to know about it at first of course, and they were pretty much an insider tip. So the band is very little known and their albums are very hard to get.
The musicians of the band are however top tier (Wolfgang Dauner on keyboards, Volker Kriegel on guitar, Eberhard Weber electric and acoustic bass (later replaced by Dave King), Jon Hiseman on drums, Barbara Thompson on saxes and flutes, Charlie Mariano on saxes, flute and nagaswaram, Ian Carr on trumpet, Albert Mangelsdorff on trombone, Ack van Rooyen on trumpet and flugelhorn and from their third album on Kenny Wheeler on flugelhorn. What a line-up!
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 11 2019 at 04:47
Argo2112 wrote:
^ Never heard this band before. Just checked it out, very cool!
This band has Colosseum links, if only by drummer Jon Hiseman and his wife Barbara Thompson, but other jazz stars went through the band as well (Ian Carr, Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Mariano, Wolfgang Dauner etc...)
The weakest point IMHO is their "generic" name, but it didn't stop them to be relatively big on the European continent
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 07 2023 at 13:55
You seem already to be a quite experienced PA member, and here's my top 10:
Fermáta (TCH) - Pieseň z Hôľ(1977)
The “Gunesh” Ensemble (USSR) - Looking At The Earth(1984)
Mahavishnu Orchestra (USA) - Birds of Fire(1973)
Osibisa (Africa) - Osibisa(1971)
Jean-Luc Ponty (F) - Upon the Wings of Music(1975)
Return to Forever (USA) - Where Have I Known You Before(1974)
Secret Oyster (DK) - Sea Sun (1974)
Weather Report (USA) - Black Market(1976)
Wigwam (FIN) - Being (1974) Stomu Yamashta (J) - Raindog(1975)
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 07 2023 at 15:05
I'll list some not often mentioned. Could list many more.
Allan Holdsworth - Hard Hat Area
Nova Collective - The Further Side
Pat Metheny Group - The Road To You
Phil Miller - Conspiracy Theories
Antoine Fafard - Proto Mundi
Dewa Budjana - Mahandini
The Aristocrasts - Culture Clash
Helmet of Gnats - Travelogue
Panzerballett - Planet Z
Hiromi - Spark
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 07 2023 at 19:15
In no particular order:
Santana - Caravanserai
Bruford - Feel's Good to Me
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Time
Antoine Fafard - Ad Perpetuum
RTF - Romantic Warrior
Lenny White - Venusian Summer
Jan Akkerman - Jan Akkerman (1977)
Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)
Devadip Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 07 2023 at 19:25
I distinctly remember hearing Birds of Fire the first time.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 08 2023 at 00:31
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite
Steely Dan - Aja
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority/ Chicago II
Bill Bruford - One Of A Kind
Santana - Santana 3/ Abraxas
Colosseum II - Electric Savage/War Dance
Sphere 3 - Comeuppance
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 08 2023 at 01:00
richardh wrote:
Colosseum II - Electric Savage
But really, does it get any better? Recorded live in studio after months of touring the album--- the energy is incredible.
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: December 08 2023 at 01:51
Steely Dan - Aja
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Weather Report - Black Market
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Brand X - Moroccan Roll
Isotope - Isotope
Santana - Moonflower
Colisseum II - War Dance
Nucleus - Elastic Rock
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: December 08 2023 at 02:26
Dedalus-Dedalus
Passport-Looking Thru
Passport-Cross Collateral
Passport-Doldinger
Colosseum-Daughter Of Time
Colosseum-Live
Mahavishnu Orchestra-The Inner Mounting Flame
Solution-Divergence
Nucleus-Solar Plexus
Colosseum 2-Wardance
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 09 2023 at 19:24
Jean-Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage
Bill Bruford - Bruford: One Of A Kind
Stanley Clarke - Journey To Love
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness And Eternity
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
Tasavallan Presidentti - Milky Way Moses
Pekka Pohjola - Visitation
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Weather Report - Black Market
If - Waterfall
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 10 2023 at 19:57
Secret Oyster | Straight to the Krankenhaus Carla Bley | Escalator Over the Hill Santana | Caravanserai Pat Metheny Group | With Lyle Mays Steely Dan | Aja Terje Rypdal | Odyssey Ralph Towner | Batik Oregon | Out of the Woods Mahavishnu Orchestra | Birds of Fire John Abercrombie | Gateway
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 10 2023 at 20:19
Atavachron wrote:
richardh wrote:
Colosseum II - Electric Savage
But really, does it get any better? Recorded live in studio after months of touring the album--- the energy is incredible.
War Dance is a tad more consistent (imo) and has my favourite Colosseum II 'The Inquisition' which has one of the most killer guitar riffs ever courtesy of Gary Moore. They were an incredible band that strangely (when you think of it now) went on to become's Andrew Lloyd Webber's backing band for 'Variations' before splitting up. Where's the face palm emoji when you need it!
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 10 2023 at 20:55
War Dance is excellent and usually surprises me when I re-listen. But I don't think the crackling live power of ES was ever quite captured by, well, anyone ...
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 11 2023 at 00:39
I think within the "Prog Umbrella" here's where my actual field of expertise lies. I don't exaggerate when I say that I have albums by more than 100 more artists that feature more than enough Jazz-Rock/Fusion for inclusion, that are not in the PA-database (Btw: I never allow myself more than one album per artist on lists like these).
Herbie Hancock - Crossings (1972) Miles Davis - Big Fun (1974) Jan Garbarek Quartet - Afric Pepperbird (1970) Terje Rypdal - Terje Rypdal (1971) Chick Corea - Return to Forever (1972) Weather Report - Weather Report (1971) Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto - Love, Love (1974) Eddie Henderson - Realization (1973) Rahmann - Rahmann (1979) Dedalus - Dedalus (1973) ___________________________________ - I planned to stick to the rules, but I need to mention five more:
Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus (1974) Wayne Shorter - Odyssey of Iska (1971) Nucleus - We'll Talk About It Later (1971) Embryo - Stieg Aus (1973) Arti E Mestieri - Tilt - Immagini Per Un Orecchio (1974)
-and even with those five additional titles, I feel like I left out quite a few desert island discs. Such as Doldingers Passport-debut, Association's (later with an added PC) Earwax, Santana's Caravansrai, Joe Farrell - Moon Germs, Björn J:son Lindh - Cous Cous, Jukka Tolonen - Summer Games, Sukellusvene, Rhésus O... it seems I found a way to mention a few more anyway:)
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 11 2023 at 03:38
Miles Davis - Big Fun
Santana - Caravanserai
Jeff Beck- Wired
Arti E Mestieri - Tilt - Immagini Per Un Orecchio
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Weather Report - Black Market
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Herbie Hancock- Maiden Voyage
Accordo Dei Contrari- Violato Intatto
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 11 2023 at 04:07
Hi,
Egberto Gismonti - Sanfona
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 11 2023 at 05:04
It's really hard to narrow it down to a Top 10 so I've chosen one favourite Jazz Rock/Fusion artist for each letter of the alphabet.
AUDIENCE - Friend's Friend's Friend (1970)
BRIAN AUGER & JULIE DRISCOLL - Open (1967)
CONTINUUM - Autumn Grass (1971)
DEMON FUZZ - Afreaka! (1970)
EAST OF EDEN - Mercator Projected (1969)
FLIGHT - Flight (1975)
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH - Horizons (1970)
CHRIS HINZE COMBINATION - The Hunter (1987)
IKARUS - Ikarus (1971)
JAN HAMMER - Escape from Television (1987)
OSAMU KITAJIMA - Dragon King (1981)
LIZARD - Bad Companions (1973)
MARSUPILAMI - Marsupilami (1970)
NOA - Tri-Logic (1987)
OUT OF FOCUS - Out of Focus (1971)
PAT METHENY GROUP - American Garage (1979)
QUIET SUN - Mainstream (1975)
RAW MATERIAL - Time Is... (1971)
SECRET OYSTER - Straight to the Krankenhaus (1976)
TONTON MACOUTE - Tonton Macoute (1971)
UMPHREY'S McGEE - Anchor Drops (2004)
VISITOR 2035 - Visitor 2035 (1978)
THE WEB - Fully Interlocking (1968)
XHOL CARAVAN - Electrip (1969)
YEAR ONE - Year One (1971)
ZZEBRA - Panic (1975)
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 11 2023 at 06:20
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
PAT METHENY GROUP - American Garage (1979)
Nice choice!
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: December 11 2023 at 10:52
BRAND X – Unorthodox Behaviour BILLY COBHAM – Spectrum COLOSSEUM II – Electric Savage AL DI MEOLA – Electric Rendezvous JERRY GOODMAN & JAN HAMMER – Like Children JAN HAMMER – The First Seven Days PAT METHENY GROUP – Pat Metheny Group JEAN-LUC PONTY – Civilized Evil RETURN TO FOREVER – Where Have I Known You Before WEATHER REPORT – Heavy Weather
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: December 11 2023 at 11:27
Great conversation!
Let me suggest:
Brand X - "Masques"
RTF - "Where Have I Known You Before"
Stanley Clarke - debut album and "School Days"
Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Visions of the Emerald Beyond"
Bruford - "Gradually Going Tornado"
Weather Report - "Heavy Weather"
Al Dimeola - "Land of the Midnight Sun" and "Elegant Gypsy"
John McLaughlin - "Shakti"
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 01 2024 at 03:19
Colosseum II Electric Savage Planet X Moonbabies Allan Holdsworth i.o.u. John Abercrombie Timeless Herbie Hancock Crossings Iceberg Coses Nostres Pekka Pohjola Pihkasilma kaarnakorva Al DiMeola Orange & Blue Allan Holdsworth Road Games Mahavishnu Orchestra Apocalypse
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 01 2024 at 04:33
no order, but if I was to place one above all, Caravanserai is it.
Larry Corryel – Barefoot Boy
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
Terje Rypdal - Terje Rypdal
Weather Report - Weather Report
Soft Machine – 6
Placebo – Balls Of Eyes
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: February 01 2024 at 06:19
Miles Davis Dark Magus Mils Davis Get Up With It Miles Davis Agharta Miles Davis Big Fun Herbie Hancock Crossings Herbie Hancock In Concert Volume II (CTI) Les McCann Invitation to Openess Chick Corea Return to Forever Billy Cobham Shabazz Don Ellis Live at Monterey
Santana Santana I Deep Purple Made in Japan
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 01 2024 at 08:16
Sean Trane wrote:
Secret Oyster - Sea Sun
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Posted By: Dapper~Blueberries
Date Posted: February 01 2024 at 10:04
1. In A Silent Way by Miles Davis
2. Satana III by Satana
3. Bundles by Soft Machine (I know it's a Canterbury Scene but it is also usually classified as fusion too)
4. Crossings by Herbie Hancock
5. A Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis
6. No Mystery by Return To Forever
7. Chicago At Carnegie Hall by Chicago
8. Apocalypse by Mahavishnu Orchestra
9. Katy Lied by Steely Dan
10. Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock
Wanna get more into jazz this year ngl.
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: February 01 2024 at 10:28
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.
Posted By: Moyan
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 09:32
(List erased due to original thread being replaced or merged with bumped five-year-old thread)
Posted By: TenYearsAfter
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 10:12
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)
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 11:32
I love posts & threads like these! I cut & pasted entries and then look up the ones I don't know on YouTube!!
Keep it up!!
Oh, here's a tasty little bit of JRF guitar playing overlayed onto California Guitar Trio. Fareed Haque turns on the fire about 2:35 in this clip:
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 11:39
This is what I posted in a 2019 non-Svetonio sock puppet accounts thread which asks the same and is still open https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=118495" rel="nofollow - 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.
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 12:19
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 13:00
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 frĺn 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
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 13:33
^ People can always re-post their lists here. I guess you're not familiar with the Svetonio issue who has had many sock puppet accounts which we suspend again and again and again. He is very persistent. It's very tiring. That other thread was started by one of his accounts and responded to by various accounts of his. We have been closing and hiding various Svet persona threads and hiding posts to try to discourage him. This thread was bumped today because I gave a link to it in the other thread which I closed and asked people to use this one instead.
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 14:01
^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?
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 14:09
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.
Posted By: Moyan
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 16:22
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.
Anyway, I liked the idea of the thread, so I contributed. However, this is a five-year-old thread now with a premise that isn't interesting to me at all, and hence I removed my list of my favourite ten albums of the acts listed as jazz-rock/fusion in your database.
Posted By: Moyan
Date Posted: March 01 2024 at 16:25
Grumpyprogfan wrote:
Didn't Svet start the Pete Sinfield thread also?
Nope. I started the Pete Sinfield thread.
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: March 06 2024 at 07:47
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Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: April 13 2024 at 06:43
10. Ian Carr / Labyrinth
9. Steely Dan / Aja
8. Brand X / Unorthodox Behaviour 7. The Mahavishnu Orchestra / Visions of the Emerald Beyond