"classic" jazz rock-fusion

My votes go to:

nick_h_nz wrote: My votes go to: Tasavallen Presidentti Wigwam and the solo careers of: Jukka Gustavson Jukka Hauru Pekka Pohjola Jukka Tolonen

So that means a vote for Pekka in the poll? I had originally Jukka included too (whom I'm a bigger fan of), but he had to go because I needed space for Embryo, I think.

^Other always gets plenty of votes so how can that be contrarian? (Jukka Tolonen)

Saperlipopette! wrote: BaldJean wrote: oh, and I'd definitely throw Aera (not Area), Pork Pie, Volker Kriegel, Et Cetera, the Release Music Orchestra, Paraphernalia and the United Jazz & Rock Orchestra into the mix BaldJean wrote: Cristi wrote: BaldJean wrote: how exactly do you define "golden age"? where does it begin and where does it end? probably 1967-1979  then the bands I listed all fall into that range, at least with their first releases Yes, they all do. I do know and like Aera, Et Cetera + Volker Kriegel's contributions pretty much everywhere I've heard him. Perhaps moreso than on his own solo albums. I do love Inside: Missing Link, and all his albums ca. 1968-1975 are well worth checking out. But as a solo artist he is relatively obscure. A poll like this has an element of a "popularity contest" I'm afraid, as I was trying to include most of the profilic/popular acts.

Oye Como Va. It's no surprise who I voted for Amigos. 

I don't get why Di Meola, described as playing too fast and is cold. Yet John McLaughlin, who plays faster, more notes, and sloppier than Al, is leading this poll.

 Lots of good stuff to choose from here. Return to Forever, Mahavishnu , Brand X, Bruford, Zappa, WEather Report, Jean Luc Ponty... All great but I gave my vote to Al Di Meola.  ( Fellow Bergenfield NJ Resident !) 

Saperlipopette! wrote: Logan wrote: I thought I was going to go with electric Miles, and I love Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi trilogy (love the "Mwandishi players" albums generally), as well as Placebo, Perigeo, Soft Machine (especially Third), early Weather Report (first two albums), Terje Rypdal, Zao, Nucleus and more, but I am going with Embryo for producing what I think is a long string of mostly excellent and relevant to this topic albums. Glad to see Embryo getting a vote. A typical "I would have voted for them if it wasn't for (insert something like Can or Miles...)" for me.

I quite often do like to favour underdogs in polls, but I do love Embryo as well as many others in the list (especially the ones I mentioned not surprisingly). I will say that from the list getting to know Miles Davis and Harbie Hancock were more transformative on me -- they both had a big effect on my musical interests, whereas there is lot of sort of jazzy Krautrock that I have been into (and jazzy Canterbury Scene too), but Embryo is still a special band to me (. Since you mentioned Can, that was another band that had a big effect on me and it has a had a large impact on much of the modern music I listen to (a hip band with the cool kids, unlike...).

The other night when dealing with my usual insomnia, I wrote a list of 50 "cool" albums for an extended cool party, and Can was in there as well as Miles Davis, Serge Gainsbourg, Stereolab, Portishead, Morricone, and many others....

I had thought about additionally mentioning some others for this topic, but I understood how you were approaching this topic and that this was not just about your tastes (clear from the OP and because I have a feel for your tastes as my tastes have been very influenced by yours). I like your approach (as you have alluded to before) of not voting other if you find ones to like in a list, and in this case, all of those I mentioned likely would make my personal general JRF list. If doing an album list, quite a few would have been recommendations from you. Over the last few days I have played jazzy Janko Nilovic (Rythmes contemporains), Mandingo (The Primeval Rhythm of Life and III) and Herbie Mann's Stone Flute -- all of which I see as JRF related at least and I am hardly saying should be included in this list even if they could fit reasonably well. It does surprise me often (thinking generally, rather than particularly with comments in this poll and I am not singling anyone out) how much people seem to expect things should have been listed in polls that could have no more than 25 options and are more focused on talking about what is "missing" or not on the list than what is on the list. I often don't even bother with the other option now and instead ask people to vote for and mention something in the poll and only after that mention any others (and if they expect it "should" have ben included, then a sound argument should be included to support the conclusion (and often say why they think others should not have been considered as there is only so much space).

Edited by Logan - April 20 2022 at 10:52

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