I have recently gotten into Fusion and I love it
I have Albums from
Jeff Beck
Return To Forever
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
&
Miles Davis
But I don't know hardly anything about the genre.
So help Me out and give Me some recommendations
What else do You think I would like?
What other great bands/artists are there from this genre? Amazing recommendation Ya'll
Thanks to all of You
I will check this stuff out, You gave Me lots of choices! On the jazz fusion side I would recommend the following albums;
Stanley Clarke - Self Titled, School Days, Journey to Love.
Return to Forever - Light as a Feather, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Where Have I Known You Before, No Mystery, Romantic Warrior.
Al Di Meola - Land of the Midnight Sun, Elegant Gypsy, Casino, Splendido Hotel, Electric Rendezvous.
Jean-Luc Ponty - Upon the Wings of Music, Aurora, Imaginary Voyage, Enigmatic Ocean, Cosmic Messenger.
Dixie Dregs - Free Fall, What If.
Eumir Deodato - Percepcao, Prelude, Deodato 2, Deodato in concert (at the Felt Forum, NY), First Cuckoo.
Billy Cobham - Spectrum, Crosswinds.
Colosseum II - Strange New Flesh, Electric Savage, Wardance.
Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin) - The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, Between Nothingness and Eternity, Visions of the Emerald Beyond.
Herbie Hancock - Sextant, Head Hunters, Flood.
Passport - Second Passport, Passport - Doldinger, Hand Made, Cross-Collateral.
Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior, Morrocan Roll, Livestock, Masques.
Bill Bruford - Feels Good to Me, One of a Kind.
Alphonse Mouzon - Mind Transplant
Nova (British) - Vimana, Wings of Love.
Weather Report - Sweetnighter, Mysterious Traveller, Tale Spinnin', Black Market.
Allan Holdsworth - Velvet Darkness, IOU, Road Games, Metal Fatigue.
Electromagnets (with Eric Johnson 1975) - Electromagnets.
Edit - Teaim - No offense, but the only thing I've posted here that would border on funk/fusion would be Herbie Hancock. The rest are jazz/rock fusion.
Darth, Teaims recommendation of Hot Rats is a good one, though Frank has far better jazz fusion related material. Hot Rats was known for containing the 9 minute+ song 'Willie the Pimp' which is a hard rock number featuring Captain Beefheart on vocals. That was the standout track. Knowing your tastes, I'm pretty sure you'd find the rest of the album as boring filler.
Frank does a much better job attempting fusion on albums like; Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, and Sleep Dirt. Even Over-nite Sensation has it's fusion moments with guest Jean Luc Ponty on electric violin. Those are highly recommended.
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I highly recommend joining. Their data base makes allmusic's look like a 2 page flyer! All reviews are done by members themselves, with whom you can communicate if you need feel the need. Anyone who truly appreciates music needs to join! Try some of the older jazz like Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa. It might have some big band sound but they rock just as hard as Slayer, Morbid angel, mudvayne or anyone else out there. Look into Herbie Hancock, he recorded with Davis in early 1960's, then recorded some of his own. One LP from Hancock you might like is Crossings, really great Jazz/Fusion. He got funkier with Headhunters and Thrust.You might also like the band Weather Report with Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. Their self titled debut LP reminds me alot of Bitches Brew. I also think you would like the album Third by Soft Machine. It to has Davis type music, and it's a 2 record deal. I could go on and on, there is so much great stuff out there. My parents were really into jazz while I went for Rock. They would always tell me that if it weren't for jazz there would be rock. I don't know if that's true, but I know I like it. Enjoy Darth.
Edit: Bitches Brew on the ride home, had it cranked, 2 kids(under 25 I'd guess) looked at me like I was from another planet. After about 15 seconds, I think they started listening, one actually gave me a thumbs up. Haha
Edit2: Smiley's got some good ones posted too. Have you heard Miles Davis In A Silent Way ? On the Corner by Miles and Jack Johnson I recommend for Fusion Jazz. Herbie Hancock most definitely the Cd's of his on Columbia very Fusionistic stuff. Weather Report most definitely are heavy fusion cats.Chick Corea Return To Forever also.Stanley Clark another fusion player.Check them out.Also check out 70s Tom Scott and his LA Express his Funk Fusion masters. The Brecker Brothers Randy and the late great Michael Brecker on tenor sax. Very heavy Jazz Funk Fusion Masters.Dig In Dude! Wow, I remember that Blue Oyster Cult album cover.
I am sure that you will like the Jaco Pastorious album called, Live in Italy. It rocks hard. Jaco is a master, a legend, of the electric bass. He lived like a rock star, and died like a rock star too. Just get this album, you'll like it. Jaco was the bassist for Weather Report. His solo live stuff is pretty heavy.
Another album you will definitely like is Frank Zappa's Hot Rats album. It was released about the same time Bitches Brew was. Zappa can really play his guitar. The song, Gumbo Variations is a 17 minute in studio jam session. The whole band is great. This album is Zappa's masterpiece.
Tony Williams was the drummer in Miles second great band, he was only 17 years old. His album, Tony Williams Emergency! has John McLaughlin (of the The Mahavishnu Orchestra) on guitar. Its a pretty experimental album. If your up for some unusual stuff, you might actually like this album. Of all the albums I have heard McLaughlin on, I think this is his best, by far.
Stanley Clarke's School days is another album that has the sound you are searching for, as far as I can tell. Another amazing band of musicians.
The Vandamark 5 album is another heavy album of jazz level skilled musicians mixing rock into their sound. Try the album, Burn the Incline.
You can check out accurate reviews of these albums here-http://wm02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am...
PS-I'm not trying to be disrespectful to the person who answered first, but to save you the effort, I have to say that those suggestions are nothing like what you are looking for.
The second is is good.
Another PS-Of all the Jeff Beck albums, make sure you get the album, Blow By Blow. Wired is really good too. All of the recommendations have been excellent. However, if you check out all of that and are still wanting more, check out a site called abstractlogix.com - they have tons of new fusion releases and you can listen to samples of most of it. Also, as a fellow metalhead, I have to suggest John Zorn's Naked City. I wouldn't call it fusion, but it is jazz that metalheads can easily get into. Also check out his band Masada. They are more "traditional" jazz, but play with the intensity of Meshuggah or Dillinger Escape Plan. Enjoy! Man, a lot of these recomendations are just great!
Though, it seems to me they are more Jazz musicians leaning towards rock ...
Here are some ideas for rock musicians that lean to jazz -
Jeff Beck
Gentle Giant
Phish (with - oddly enough, a little bluegrass thrown in) |
