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    Posted: September 24 2006 at 15:30
I really like what i've heard of this genre, but i have only got one album, "The Inner Mounting Flame".
Please give recomendations here! Big smile
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John Abercrombie. And review him!  Wink
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Brand X:

  • Unorthodox Behaviour
  • Moroccan Roll
  • Masques

Mahavishnu Orchestra:

  • Birds of Fire

Return To Forever:

  • Romantic Warrior

Dixie Dregs:

  • Free Fall
  • What If

Frank Zappa:

  • Waka/Jawaka
  • The Grand Wazoo
  • One Size Fits All

Passport:

  • Looking Thru
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2006 at 16:56
Many Canterbury groups play jazz-rock too, so I can recommend the following:

- Hatfield and the North - s/t and The Rotters' Club
- National Health - s/t and Of Queues and Cures
- Soft Machine - Third and Sixth
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Maneige and Nucleus are my favorite fusion bands, they're both very underrated.
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Quiet Sun - Mainstream
Nucleus - We'll Talk About It Later and Elastic Rock
Ain Soph - A Story of Mysterious Forest and Hat and Field
Tasavallan Presidentti - Lambertland
Maneige - Ni vent... ni nouvelle
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew and In A Silent Way
Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North and The Rotters' Club
Soft Machine - Third
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Points: 3497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2006 at 17:54
Nucleus first two albums are great (not that I compare them to the others since I have only these two, but they are still great).
 
If (not in PA; I can recommend Waterfall; at all, worth checking other albums too).
 
Tonton Macoute -- their only album, amazing, in my opinion; however, I'd define it more like Art-Rock; they are listed as Jazz-Rock/Fusion in PA.
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This is a list of bands I posted in another thread. All very good and worthy of listening to:
 
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Al Di Meola, John Abercrombie, Aera,Ain Soph, Arti E Mestieri, Boud Deun, Cerebus Effect, Czeslaw Niemen, Deus Ex Machina, Eela Craig, Frogg Cafe, Fulano, Helmet of Gnats, Iceberg, Iman Califato Independiente, KBB, Kenso, Leb I Sol, Maneige, John Mclaughlin , Pat Metheny Group, Morpheus (Ger), Nucleus, Out Of Focus, Perigeo, Jean Luc Ponty, Return to Forever, Secret Oyster, Sloche, Tasavallan Presidentti, A Triggering Myth, Wigwam, and Xhol among others....
 
 
 
 
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man oh man oh man.......this is gonna be some long list:
 
classic late 60s-70s:
 
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew / Big Fun / In A Silent Way
Herbie Hancock - Sextant / Crossings
Julian Priester - Love, Love
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior / Where Have I Seen You Before
Tony Williams - Emergency / Believe It
Soft Machine - Third
Terje Rypdal - Waves / Odyssey
Nucleus - Live In Bremen
Weather Report - Heavy Weather / I Sing The Body Electric
Barre Philips - Mountainscapes
 
 
80s:
 
Allan Holdsworth - IOU / Metal Fatigue
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Second Wind
 
 
Current fusion and 'variants':
 
John McLaughlin - Industrial Zen
Tortoise - TNT
Supersilent - 6
Wibutee - 8 Domestic Challenges
 
 
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Points: 1354 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2006 at 22:44
ok, another 2 to add into the 60s-70s list:
 
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire / Lost Trident Sessions
Pat Metheny Group - s/t
 
 
best part is all these albums and artists sound so diff from one another.....so much wonderful stuff to explore and immerse oneself in.....
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Points: 1354 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2006 at 23:10
oh man i'm on a roll here!!!  some more modern fusion and variants to check out pls:
 
Tortoise - Its All Around You
Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note
Audun Kleive & Generator X
 
 
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The big four Alex in my opinion are:

Bill Bruford (and his related works i.e. Earthworks)
Jean-Luc Ponty
Al DiMeola (and related projects)
Frank Zappa

And to a lesser extent Allan Holdsworth is also fantastic.

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Points: 12812 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2006 at 06:02
Originally posted by superprog superprog wrote:

oh man i'm on a roll here!!!  some more modern fusion and variants to check out pls:
 
Tortoise - Its All Around You
Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note
Audun Kleive & Generator X
 
 
TRIP!!!!
 
Hurray for reminding the genre hasn't atophied, so doesn't remain stuck in the 70's like so much other progressive music
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Check out Planet X - MoonBabies ... a controversial album, quite heavy at times and often accused to be overly technical. Great fusion nonetheless!
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Superprog you must catch up on Alex MacHacek. [Sic] with Terry Bozzio is probably one of my top three jazz rock albums released this year - but as McHacek (different spelling for some reason) Alex released a tour de force with Featuring Ourselves. Then Bozzio MacHacek and Preinfalk as BPM, album Delete & Roll is worth a listen, if not for the challenging polyrhythms Bozzio brings.

And then there is Bugge Wesseltoft - for instance his contributions to Terj Rypdal's Vossabrygg (ECM) are both subtle and telling 
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BILL BRUFORD's EARTHWORKS, the later line-up on albums from year 1999!
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Points: 1354 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2006 at 06:42
Dick Heath wrote:
Superprog you must catch up on Alex MacHacek. [Sic] with Terry Bozzio is probably one of my top three jazz rock albums released this year - but as McHacek (different spelling for some reason) Alex released a tour de force with Featuring Ourselves. Then Bozzio MacHacek and Preinfalk as BPM, album Delete & Roll is worth a listen, if not for the challenging polyrhythms Bozzio brings.

And then there is Bugge Wesseltoft - for instance his contributions to Terj Rypdal's Vossabrygg (ECM) are both subtle and telling 

OK!!! TRIP!!!
 
oh btw i do have Rypdal's latest and yes its great stuff.....  Bug Wesseltoft has got sh*tloads of stuff on Jazzland and Jazzaway label......when the money comes in i'll get that too....
 
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2006 at 11:09
OMG... so many replies...!
I'll see what i'm going to get.
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^ you can always cross-check the recommendation by listing the top fusion albums:

http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?style_id=30
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A Triggering Myth
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