what Jazz/fusion album are you listening to ?

darkshade wrote: superprog wrote: who do we consider as this new fusion?    is it those who are, like in the prog rock scene, 'continuing the tradition' of classic jazz rock 60s-70s but w some new input or are they ppl whose work may not be directly alluding to that period but whose experimental daring and/or ideas somehow revive that spirit?     it could be anybody. Scofield, although he's been around since the mid-70's is still putting out groundbreaking material and progressing as always. Same with Mike Stern, Pat Metheny, and Michael Brecker until his passing earlier this year. those are all older guys though, newer ones would be guys like Charlie Hunter, Steve Jenkins, Dave Fuzeinsky (sp?), and others. what the jazz world, the rock world, the MUSIC world needs is guys like Miles, Zappa, Coltrane, and others that were great band leaders and visionaries that could find young talent and exploit their best traits and then in turn those people would have great careers after leaving their leaders' bands.

Dave Fuse Fiuczynski -  I had to go look  up the spelling and it is even more difficult to get the inflection right when pronouncing it.


John McLaughlin is touring the US at the very moment and doing that very thing wrt nurturing young talent in the form of  wonder bassist Hadrian Faraud. Gary Husband who's taking keyboard and sharing drumming  on this McLaughlin tour, and I know personally to be a mild manner and polite guy, is currently tearing into a web critic at the Fusenet website for comments made about the first gig of the McLaughlin tour - could be quite bloody.

The row is simmering down, however the verbal knives are still out:

Edited by Dick Heath - October 10 2007 at 05:07

Atavachron wrote:  ^ wow  ..and I thought things got heated here

Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever

Miles Davis´ Prince of Darkness.

Edited by zicIy - October 12 2007 at 00:03

anyone here like Jeff Beck's fusion albums like Blow By Blow or Wired?

i heard There And Back, the one after Wired, and man is it awesome. definitely gotta get if you like the aforementioned albums!

Coincidentally just listening to Masques by Brand X. Collins' run with Brand X displays some of his greatest drumming, carrying on the intelligent and varied prowess that he displayed on such songs as "In the Cage" and his drumming on the version of "The Knife" on Genesis Live. Any drummers on here, listen to Brand X if you haven't already, and pay special attention to the Collins stuff.

in this moment:

Grant Green: "Street Funk&Jazz Groove (The Best of Grant Green)"