Inspired by Paul's two around-the-world threads, here's a third one,

and my fave bands from East to West are:

 Stomu Yamash'ta (Japan)

Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, Secret Oyster (Denmark)

Embryo, Out of Focus (Germany)

Fermata (Slovakia)

Korni Grupa (Serbia)

Accordo Dei Contrari (Italy)

Jean-Luc Ponty (France)

Iman Kalifato Independiente (Spain)

Osibisa (Africa)

Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Santana (USA)

If quite to follow PA's classification, I had listed Iconoclasta (Mexico) as well, 

but I consider them more to be Symphonic than Jazz-Rock.

Enjoy it! 

 and preferably only Jazz-Rock, I've planned another thread for Jazz Fusion.

Jaga Jazzist (Norway)

Pekka Pohjola (Finland)

Forgas Band Phenomena (France)

Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic (France)

Ghost Rhythms (France)

Accordo Dei Contrari (Italy)

Brown vs Brown (Netherlands)

I've forgotten this one on my list, so it's better to be added. 

and how could I forget this one? 

Fine, and JLP got on my list as well. 

very nice with some bands well around the world  

Thanks for clearing up the Con-Fusion. I'd be hard-pressed to name any Jazz Fusion artists I like, but I'm a big fan of Jazz Rock. 

Recently started enjoying the Norwegian band Krokofant

Some very good questions. 

I see Jazz-Rock and Jazz Fusion as two different categories, Jazz-Rock being more Rock-influenced while Jazz Fusion mostly Jazz-influenced, and also to higher degree having influences from other genres than Rock.

Then I distinguish between Progressive Jazz-Rock and non-Progressive Jazz-Rock, the latter one being less complex/experimental, like Steely Dan.

Hi,

Nice to see some ECM listed here, and if we look at their listing of albums we probably could add a lot more!!!!!. 

Terje is the "odd one" here in that what he does is not exactly jazz-rock, but then it is not rock either, or jazz in a lot of the stuff he does. As an example, the odd one out, EOS is an example of Chamber Music with an electric guitar and electric bass and effects and the album is more ... about classical chamber music, than it is anything else ... (make sure to skip the first cut!!!).

Jan Garbarek is more pure jazz, but when you hear him with Gismonti and Haden, the story is very different. I like his experimental period in EVENTYR ... which is an incredible album, and many other things, and the trio's MAGICO is a very beautiful album, that defies jazz or rock ... it's just excellent music all around.

Egberto Gismonti deserves to be listed. I was thinking SANFONA is valuable here, but I wonder if people get lost when they hear the piano excursions, which I find outstanding. Of his albums, I prefer NO CAIPIRA, which is a sort of psychedelia meets Villa Lobos, meets Samba, meets Brazil, and meets heaven knows what ... it's way out there and the combination with the orchestra is just sick ... totally sick in its design and beauty. I often think it's pure Brazilian music, but I'm not sure that even fits ... 

On the topic of Brazil ... Milton Nascimento was mostly jazz-rock, Moacir Santos I have not heard enough of as yet to say much, Airto Moreira was jazz-rock, although when it was around, I'm not sure that many could handle the Brazilian rhythm touch with the jazz-rock ... this was the case with a jazz guy at our local station that liked Airto (the one famous piece) but disliked the rest because it wasn't jazz enough! The kind of comment that makes you groan, right?

Some Japanese? Like Bondage Fruit? When I saw them in SF in 1999, I thought of this as Japanese jazz with a touch of rock, but (honestly) I have not listened to them since!

Bondage Fruit are a great band, I tend to place them in the Japanese Zeuhl arena with the likes of Koenjihyakkei, Happy Family, Amygdala, Le Silo, etc.

I'll do some adding in the next thread I've planned about Jazz Fusion. 

But is it Jazz-Rock? - Even it doesn't have to matter that much. 

I've been very fond of some Jazz-Rock albums from about the very beginning of my digging music in the first half of the '70s,

and most notably Birds of Fire, RtF's Where Have I Known...and Osibisa. But it was not until the '00s that I became interested

in Jazz-Rock from many different countries around the world which I in return have had very much pleasure of ever since. 

Excellent!  Sounds as if we have walked the same path!   Of course, RtF led to my lifelong appreciation & love for the music by Al Dimeola, Stanley Clarke etc. 

Here's a taste of Chicagoland's own Fareed Haque playing some M. Orchestra with the California Guitar Trio! Fareed turns on the burners about 2:40!  

Agora (Italy)

Eela Craig (Austria)

great, Paul

Thanks for adding Shadowfax, Paul!  

What???? Jazz Rock and Jazz Fusion are not the same thing? I'm confused.

you're not the only one. 

David_D wrote: mathman0806 wrote: Overall, how do you all look at Jazz Rock? Doo you all see it as a strict subcategory of Jazz Fusion. Or is there Jazz Rock, that isn't Jazz Fusion. Like, where do you place a band like Steely Dan? Some very good questions.  I see Jazz-Rock and Jazz Fusion as two different categories, Jazz-Rock being more Rock-influenced while Jazz Fusion mostly Jazz-influenced, and also to higher degree having influences from other genres than Rock. Then I distinguish between Progressive Jazz-Rock and non-Progressive Jazz-Rock, the latter one being less complex/experimental, like Steely Dan.

I forgot a couple of artists from the States:

Brenda: "How do you go from this tranquility to that violence?"

Sonny Crockett: "I usually take the Ferrari." 

Here's some blazing guitar work by Fareed Haque with his Garaj Mahal project!

Dedalus, Il Baricentro (Italy)

Nucleus, Colosseum (UK)

Terje Rypdal (Norway)

Passport, Dzyan, Giger Lenz Marron (Germany)

Solution (Netherlands)