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    Posted: December 14 2024 at 19:01
Has the French band Cortex ever been suggested for admission/inclusion to the Jazz-Rock Fusion sub-genre?

The two albums I know are available to hear on YouTube:

Cortex Cortex (1975) on Disques Espérance
Cortex Cortex 2 (1977) on Disques Espérance
Cortex Pourquoi (1978) on Crypto

Highly recommended for anyone who likes excellent Herbie Hancock-caliber jazz funk with Northettes vocals on top.

I'd be more than happy to write the bio and enter info if the gang decides to admit them into the database.
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They were suggested back in April 2014, but with no biographical information included in the suggestion, so it was always going to be doubtful that anyone would follow it up, and I was the only one to respond. The link I gave for the interview with the band's main man and pianist Alain Mion is now dead, but it was saved on the Wayback Machine a number of times over the years. Here's one sample from July 2018.

Wasn't the debut album from 1975 called 'Troupeau bleu' though, rather than just being self-titled?








There was a 'Cortex' added to Progfreak (now Awesome Prog) about 18 years ago, but no country of origin was included or any releases, so I'll ask Mike to update the entry to include France as the country of origin, and then I'll add the albums.

From a quick listen they're well worth an evaluation in JR/F, so I'll drop a note in the team thread.
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Troupeau Bleu is one of my favourite albums. It's such a wonderful, groovy album and I adore the vocals of Mireille Dalbray. It's pretty smooth jazz-funk/fusion, and wonderfully French, that goes down so well with these ears. It reminds me in part of some of my favourite much later albums with retro qualities in part. This was an album that gained popularity after music being sampled by Tyler the Creator and MF DOOM.
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another one of these bands that I thought would've been added, partluy because it is included in MMA


Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Troupeau Bleu is one of my favourite albums. It's such a wonderful, groovy album and I adore the vocals of Mireille Dalbray. It's pretty smooth jazz-funk/fusion, and wonderfully French, that goes down so well with these ears. It reminds me in part of some of my favourite much later albums with retro qualities in part. This was an album that gained popularity after music being sampled by Tyler the Creator and MF DOOM.


all three of their albums are worthy, the second being much more instrumental (if memory serves), and the third can be seen as vdisco-ish, but view it as killer funk stuff.
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^ I will check those others out too. I would think I might miss the vocals of Mireille Dalbray, but then I would just try to treat them as different.
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