"classic" jazz rock-fusion

Saperlipopette! wrote: Love Area too, but they're like a genre of their own (if they were from the UK, Belgium or France I suspect they would have been in Avant/RIO)

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.

Edited by Logan - April 19 2022 at 15:41

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


Edited by BaldJean - April 19 2022 at 16:33

BaldJean wrote: how exactly do you define "golden age"? where does it begin and where does it end?

Cristi wrote: BaldJean wrote: how exactly do you define "golden age"? where does it begin and where does it end? probably 1967-1979

Tough to choose between Miles Davis, Soft Machine, Nucleus and Mahavishnu Orchestra. All have multiple albums that are favs of mine unlike most on the list where there might be one or two. 

BaldJean wrote: how exactly do you define "golden age"? where does it begin and where does it end?

Do you really expect an "exact" definition? I figured most would here just sort of would understand what I meant. Similar to the timeline of progressive rock something started happening in the late 1960's several places simultaniously. Artists started fusing musical genres or rather all their influences together and created something new and previously unheard. We all know this. An openminded, recordbuying and concertattending audience helped creating this golden era - which ended sometime in the mid to late 1970's. Neither prog or jazzfusion was dead of course. Artistic expressions never really die. But "the world" certainly wasn't paying attention anymore. Not like before. We all know this too. Very few - if any of the jazzfusion albums released in the 1980's, can be considered essential or reference albums/works for younger artists today. However great they may be, they are historically of less importance.

BaldJean wrote: some bands that are listed under "Canterbury" are definitely candidates for the list too, like Soft Heap/Soft Head or Gilgamesh, for example

Absolutely. Those two weren't the among the most profilic acts of the "golden era", but very worthy. I could lterally think of hundreds of candiates. Well, not for Canterbury alone of course, but amongst tons of jazz-artists coming out of the 1960's that went fusion in the 1970's, Library Music and soundtrack composers, in Indo/Raga, in Krautrock, in Zeuhl, in RIO/Avant...  

Cosmiclawnmower wrote: I Really like lots of the artists listed but am going to go for two of the most obvious and well known because they are who i tend to turn to if i'm in that mood: Pat Metheny and Weather Report. I also really rate this Swedish fusion outfit, have a couple of their lps

Great band! I love a lot of swedish jazzfusion and finnish. Maybe I'll try and make a nordic one. Which allows me to include all those often overlooked, wondrous gems of bands such as Kornet. 

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.