what Jazz/fusion album are you listening to ?

awww sh*t some probs w the link.........for those who bother go to youtube search under 'Engineered Beautiful Blood' and you will find a video by the band I/D................arghhh

Rocksession!

Recommendation at that excellent discussion group for most matters of jazz fusion, especially the NEW, Fusenet:

Edited by Dick Heath - October 05 2007 at 07:24

talkin abt Norwegians n' nu-jazz.........

hahaha Supersilent 5 is just what i'm playin now when i saw yr post.  great choice too
(weel, they're ALL great hoohoo)!!  dark foreboding quite spaced and ambient..........

( right now  )           : Paul Giger / Marie Louise Dahler - ´Toward Silence´

just got Eivind Aarset's Sonic Codex as also mentioned by Dick.  Great jazztronics, again from the Jazzland label.  Fans of Tortoise shld like this.

well since jazz has stagnated in the last 15-20 years, with a lot of exceptions, i see the second coming of fusion making a lot of sense.

besides the fact that jazz has been around for over a century and has fluctuated in popularity since, it's inevitable that a very creative form of jazz would return.

"newer" jazz is a lot different than classic fusion (unlike some modern prog bands that take a lot from the classic era (as discussed in other posts)) it does take from the 70s, but one has to remember that it is still JAZZ and jazz has always taken from the past and expanded on it. anyway, fusion these days seems to take a lot more of the 'groove' and Jaco's influence is highly felt in the music today. also straight/post-bebop jazz seems to have made a comeback by being incorporated within other musical contexts.

basically, IMO, the jazz-rock of Jaco, Zappa, Miles, Hancock, etc, and the influence of Coltrane has finally caught up with modern jazz. Because you know jazz went downhill in a lot of areas after '78 or so. The 80's were not the best time for jazz with exceptions. The 90's werent really either, although acid jazz (once again Miles influenced) was around, and some guys were doing it. now this decade, people seem to realize what the guys in the late sixties and 70's were doing.

i think what im trying to get at is Jazz is in it's comeback stage, although i dont think it's hit it's peak yet, or has come close. the reason i dont say JAZZ-FUSION or anything like that is because it's ALL jazz now. anything that's come out in the last 8 years cant really be strictly classified as fusion, world music, funk-rock fusion, or anything like that. it's just JAZZ because the mindset is always there these days, whether it's a funk-infused jam, or free jazz communications over a steady groove, or bebop timing with a more rock melody, it's all pretty much under the same roof.

can anyone add to what im saying? i feel as if im going on and on now, i feel i may have gotten my point across, i hope. does anyone else understand??

speaking of new jazz I recently discovered The Heliocentrics a jazz group that fuses lots of strange influences with their jazz sometimes even hip-hop (but in a good way) check them out