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Did you ever try Live-Evil by Miles Davis, LeInsomniac ? It's atleast the same style of music, though louder and far more fierce.
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Originally posted by NotSoKoolAid NotSoKoolAid wrote:

Did you ever try Live-Evil by Miles Davis, LeInsomniac ? It's atleast the same style of music, though louder and far more fierce.



I also recommend:

Big Fun (the only album on which Miles used indian instruments: tabla, electric sitar, etc.),
Tribute to Jack Johnson,
Agharta & Pangaea (double albums recorded live in Japan the same day, I recommend especially the former one),
Aura (very good album recorded in the 80s, composed by Palle Mikkelborg, each trak describes a particular colour: White, Yellow, Orange, etc.).

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good good I sense much strenght in youLOL thanks guys, I'm now working on it. Since I heard the album Bitches Brew I've grown in awe in what Miles did, although it was in the time he was already crackin up, That was incredible musicianship.

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Man, what a trip I'm doing, now ive acquired Miles Davis Live-Evil, some crazy sh*t!!!!! Unfortunately cant review the Miles Davis albums since hes not listed in P.A:

However a Laboratorium review might come as well from their album Modern Pentathlon!!!

Does anyone here beside Thuzivar knows Laboratorium?

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just got some news about the Essential John McLaughlin double set being issued, with a track listing as shown the record does provide a fair cross-section of his music and history, and looks to be a set that can be recommended as a starter's sampler.

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Track listing:

CD1:
Doxy (Graham Bond Organization); Spectrum (Tony Williams Lifetime); Marbles; Right Off (Miles Davis); Follow Your Heart (Joe Farrell Quartet); Rawalpindi Blues (Carla Bley/Paul Haines); Goodbye Porkpie Hat; Peace One; The Dance of the Maya (The Mahavishnu Orchestra); Birds of Fire (The Mahavishnu Orchestra); A Love Supreme Part One: Acknowledgement (Carlos Santana/John McLaughlin).
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Wings of Karma (The Mahavishnu Orchestra); India (Shakti); Do You Hear the Voices You Left Behind?; My Foolish Heart; Electric Dreams, Electric Sighs (The One Truth Band); Aura (Intro) (Miles Davis); Animato (Third Movement); Two Sisters; Belo Horizonte; Wayne’s Way.
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A Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis is in my opinion the greatest jazz fusion album of all time, and it's on iTunes for $1.99. If you don't have it, pick it up, it's essential.
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Received my copy today and so far been immersing myself in the live and long version of Behind The Yasmack. Amused by one line in the Liner notes, where one of the trio writes about listening to his favourtie album Rush's Fly By Night before a gig - try as I might I hear no cross-over influence.
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Originally posted by LeInsomniac LeInsomniac wrote:

Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Originally posted by LeInsomniac LeInsomniac wrote:

Just finished hearing hearing for the first time Laboratorium's album Modern Penthathlon, really truly great stuff, a must to anyone that likes jazz rock/fusion. Please folks try to acquire them!(to the ones that don't have them). I can't express how good this album of theirs is.


Finally!! Clap Someone followed my recommendation and acquired them! And likes them! Can we expect a review? Smile


You bet, I'm actually kind of grateful for your recomendation, I'm now trying to acquire another album of theirs, its called Quasimodo. Hope this one is as good! Gonna throw a review soon and warn everyone here. FOLKS! Keep coming with your recomendations, I'm lovin it!LOL

Acquired Miles Davies Bitches Brew and it's awesome, im jaw suspendedShocked, another album that I may acquire of him that has this particular soundBig%20smile?


So, have you finally acquired Quasimodo? How do you like it? And what about the promised review? Smile
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Originally posted by King Crimson776 King Crimson776 wrote:

A Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis is in my opinion the greatest jazz fusion album of all time, and it's on iTunes for $1.99. If you don't have it, pick it up, it's essential.


Crickey, they're practically giving it away!
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Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:


Originally posted by King Crimson776 King Crimson776 wrote:

A Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis is in my opinion the greatest jazz fusion album of all time, and it's on iTunes for $1.99. If you don't have it, pick it up, it's essential.
Crickey, they're practically giving it away!


That's what I'm sayin'! Those f**k-ups!
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My last jazz fusion discover was (a bit late) Bill Bruford's "One of a Kind". Masterliness.

...And thanks to the top 50 ;)
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Thanks to those who recommended this Alan Pasqua album at the Fusenet website, I now have the album and literally playing it at the moment. It is most strongly recommended. Alan Pasqua is best know as the keyboard player to Allan Holdsworth guitar in The New Tony Williams Lifetime, but is now also a teacher of jazz keyboards in California. His most recent public appearance has been in the US and Europe co-leading the AllanHoldsworth-Alan Pasqua Band, check out the DVD Live At Yoshi's.
 
Inevitably trying to anchor the music to what has gone before, to explain why others should buy,  I have been thinking who has done something "similar". The tune 'New Rhodes' has faint echoes of Ian Carr & Nucleus and even some of the pre-jazz rock, new/avant British jazz of the late 60's , whilst 'Fast Food' kicks off with hints of Miles (Mike Stern period)  and a superb Fender Rhodes (?) solo by Pasqua at Fast Food tail end. But I must emphasise those words 'hints', 'echoes', since obviously with this body of excellent seasoned jazz musicians there is much much more they bring to the party under the direction of Mr Pasqua, than what others have done previously. BTW Nels Cline, Jimmy Haslip, Alex Acuna and others perform through the album.


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Received my copy today and so far been immersing myself in the live and long version of Behind The Yasmack. Amused by one line in the Liner notes, where one of the trio writes about listening to his favourtie album Rush's Fly By Night before a gig - try as I might I hear no cross-over influence.


Yeah!
Listened to it myself yesterday, the mood is, as always, lovely, the jazz is not bad at all. Must be of the same Tuesday Afternoon Tour in which they arrived in my town...what a spectacle was that for me (and in general)!
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mahavishnu orchestra

incedible musicians, john mcaughlin is one of the best ever UK guitarists IMO, Billy Cobham is a drumming god, Jan Hammer is superb... One Word is my favourite jazz/fusion song of all time, and Mahavishnu are one of my fav bands. jazz/fusion is incredible music, period.
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Originally posted by kibble_alex kibble_alex wrote:

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incedible musicians, john mcaughlin is one of the best ever UK guitarists IMO, Billy Cobham is a drumming god, Jan Hammer is superb... One Word is my favourite jazz/fusion song of all time, and Mahavishnu are one of my fav bands. jazz/fusion is incredible music, period.
 
Long debate elsewhere about One Word : is this mistitled on the MO album? John McLaughlin when part of Tony Williams Lifetime, recorded a tune One Word (with Jack Bruce on vocals/bass) and that it sounds more like Mahavishnu's (I think?) Resolution......
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Does anybody listens to CAB? It's my favorite fusion band, hope that I'm not the only one...
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I am completely irrelevant to jazz rock/fusion (Mr. Heath's show is a good source to discover some lately...Wink) but I would recommend the two albums produced by Bozzio_Levin_Stevens. Great work and much better than the Bozzio_Sheehan project, at least for my own taste. What does Master Heath say about this? Tongue
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A treat for Machine fans:
Delta Saxophone Quartet's Dedicated To You... But You Weren't Listening: The Music Of Soft Machine (Moonjune Records - yet another British band signed to an indie US label). Hugh Hopper guests on one track and Morgan Fisher on another. Check out Outrageous Moon: a clever acknowledgment  of the internal stresses in SM during the making of Third, made tangible with the Ratledge and Wyatt tunes entwined here in one tune.


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I second Brian Auger! Also, if you can locate any Stomu Yamashta, makes for interesting listening. I would include any Jerry Goodman (The Flock, etc.). After hearing one tune from "Controlled By Radar" from McGill-Manring-Stevens, that's something I'm going to look out for. Absolutely cosmic sounding if you're into that.
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