Post electric Miles jazzrockfusion powers!
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Topic: Post electric Miles jazzrockfusion powers!
Posted By: zoviet
Subject: Post electric Miles jazzrockfusion powers!
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 03:33
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 03:42
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This was an easy vote for Mwandishi. As much as I love the two first Weather Report records, especially I Sing the Body Electric which I consider to be quite the masterpiece, the trio blast of Mwandishi, Crossings and Sextant just may be the coolest thing inside of fusion besides Miles himself. My fave has always been the jagged edged and hard to swallow Sextant.
I don't care too much about the other bands, and I am one of the few who thinks that Mahavishnu were extremely overrated. Still are imo, don't shoot me. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 03:43
| all i can say is Herbie Hancock/Mwandishi's Sextant album alone could take the rest out hahahah |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 03:44
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Sshhhh we're in Mahavishnu country here.... ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 04:33
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Weather Report for me, even though they did fall off (rather sharply IMO) after a certain point. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 05:51
| Weather Report |
Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 06:01
| The Mwandishi trilogy is amazing, and voted for Hancock. Surprised RTF hasn't got votes yet though. Their last live double was superb. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 06:12
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Mahavishnu ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 06:55
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first vote for RtF ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 08:00
| Mwandishi would be my pick if RTF wasn't here. I enjoy RTF's electric period very much but I'm voting for them because of their exceptional debut album. A jazzy latino masterpiece with phenomenal performance on the fender rhodes by Chick Corea. I think this one is rated below 3.5 which is not understandable. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 09:46
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A complete toss up between the first 3. Weather Report I can omit, they fall off after a few albums, too much smooth jazz for my taste.
I would then pick Return to Forever over Mahavishnu....not by much tho -------------   
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 12:12
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Weather Report has always been my favorite here. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 14:07
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Weather Report for their different eras. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 14:24
Why bother writing my own post, when someone else says much what I would say myself. The Mwandishi band for sure. I might have opened it up to more than Hancock led Mwandishi band works as well, though. Eddie Henderson's Realization, amongst others, deserves some love here. |
Guldbamsen wrote:Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 14:30
| I favor RtF or MO on this. Weather Report would be a close third. I wish Jaco was still with us. What a beast he was. |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 14:55
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I really like Mahavishnu, but I don't know the others too well yet, so no vote. -------------  
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 17:39
| Mahavishnu |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 20:23
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Herbie.
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 21:25
Mahavishnu Orchestra |
Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 22:16
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wow surprisingly Mwandishi is in the lead!! woot!!! i say those guys really got the best groove
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 22:32
| I accidentally voted Weather Report instead of Mwandishi |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 22:34
| This is a tough one. I can rule out Weather Report, they are way too wimpy, a bump up from elevator music like Spyro Gyra (the first two albums notwithstanding). It's down to Mahavishnu and Chick Corea/Return to Forever. I'm going with Return to Forever. My favorite album by them is the title album (credited to Corea), a total masterpiece, a desert island disc, and after that, "Light as a Feather," and then "Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy." |
Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 23:49
hehhe i love Spyro Gyra i'm gonna do a smooth fusion poll one of these days heheh
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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 23:57
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