Jazz Rock Fusion Masterpieces

  WELL, because COLOSSEUM features in a few lists I'm going to tell you jazz/rock and C fans to go out and get the 'COLOSSEUM LIVES" DVD of their live concerts in Cologne in 1994. It's an excellent package and well worth the money. It also features the late and great Dick Heckstall-Smith and is probably some of the last readily available footage of the great man . Do yourselves a favour!

i love both feels good to me and one of a kind form bill bruford...i love fusion but i feel many of the albums from the genre are quality most tracks being of equivalent quality, therefore making it difficult to pick a fav. Fusion albums are the best value buy cd or albums because they are reasonably priced and the far majority are high quality, and have multiple good tracks

One of my favorite genres.

Here is a list of my favorite fusion artists

1. Mahavishnu orchestra (Birds of fire, From nothingness to eternity, Inner mountain flame)

2. Weather report (Heavy weather, 8:30)

3. Return to forever (No mystery, Return to forever, Hymn of seventh galaxy, Romantic warrior)

4. Zappa (Hot rats, Waka/Jawaka, The grand wazoo, Apostrophe, Jazz from hell...)

5. Colosseum (Live, Valentyne suite, Those about to die salute you)

6. Gong (Shamal, Gazeuse, Espresso II))

7. Passport (Looking thru, Cross colaterall)

8. Billy Cobham (Crosswinds, Spectrum)

9. Herbie Hancock (Headhunters, Man child)

10. Alan Holdswort (Metal fatigue, I.O.U.,Secrets)

11. Soft machine (Third album, IV, V)

12. Brand X

13. Jaco Pastorius (Invitation, Curtain call)

14. Bill Bruford

15. Eumir Deodato (Prelude)

Rorro wrote: What really good Jazz/Rock Fusion albums have meen released since 2000?

Rorro wrote: What really good Jazz/Rock Fusion albums have meen released since 2000? I like a lot Planet X - Moonbabes and Deus Ex Machina - Cinque, but i don't see them as masterpieces.

    
Ohm - "Amino Acid Flashback" is great
Tetsuo Sakurai "Gentle Hearts" is a kicker too

Michel Camilo - On Fire is a great labum , a masterpiece. I'll think of which songs would i include in a compilation of jazz rock classics.

All my "usual suspects" include Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy posted above , and then would support and in fact go further than Rorro, asking for nominations of some more modern jazz rock classics. Here are a few for starters:

RoyalJelly wrote:      Miles, "Bitches Brew" and "Live Evil", maybe "Jack Johnson" too. Weather Report's "Mysterious Traveler". The best Return to Forever IMHO is "Hymn of the 7th Galaxy"...Bill Connors is a much ballsier guitarist than DiMeola, and Corea was wilder here as well, and didn't play synthesizer (not his specialty really).      Some other great fusion albums: Passport "Cross-Collateral" and "Looking Through", the Passport called "Doldinger Jubilee", which was live with Brian Auger, Phillip Catherine, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, totally smokin'!      the 1st 2 Arti & Mistieri albums ("Tilt" & "Giro di Valzer per Domani")

Edited by Andrea Cortese - May 12 2006 at 12:34

Dzyan - Electric silence (1974)

Edited by Abstrakt - May 12 2006 at 10:48

Mr. Sanchez wrote: Birds Of Fire. Amen to that. .

Yes indeed - my favourite "fusion" album. Also great are Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, and Baldfriede mentioned Bill Bruford's "Feels Good to me"; then there's Weather report's "Heavy Weather" and "Black Market" Of the "usual suspects" I find Return to Forever a little bland, if brilliantly played.