Jazz Rock Fusion Masterpieces

Birds Of Fire.

Amen to that.

TRC is also Brilliant.


Edited by Mr. Sanchez - May 12 2006 at 08:25

fragile43k wrote: What about Hatfield and the North's "The Rotter's Club".  I've always considered the later Canterbury bands like Hatfield and the North and National Health to be fusion bands.  I mean, come on.  This album is flawless.  Even the bonus tracks are brilliant.  Have you ever heard fusion that beautiful...that majestic.

wolf0621 wrote: A lot of the records mentioned in prior posts plus:   Return To Forever: No Mystery Dixie Dregs: Dregs of The Earth, Industry Standard, Free Fall, What If Mahavishnu Orchestra: Between Nothingness & Eternity Colosseum II: War Dance, Strange New Flesh David Sancious: Forest of Feelings Tony Williams: Million Dollar Legs Alan Holdsworth: Sand Jeff Beck: Wired, Blow By Blow, Live w/Jan Hammer Group Al DiMeola: Elegant Gypsy, Land Of The Midnight Sun, Casino, Electric Rendezvous John Scofield: Still Warm Joe Beck: The Journey Weather Report: Heavy Weather Utopia: Another Live

What about Hatfield and the North's "The Rotter's Club".  I've always considered the later Canterbury bands like Hatfield and the North and National Health to be fusion bands.  I mean, come on.  This album is flawless.  Even the bonus tracks are brilliant.  Have you ever heard fusion that beautiful...that majestic.

Miles Davis- Bitches Brew! i have the complete sessions - 4 CDs worth of fusion-y goodness! It makes me happy.

erlenst wrote: Bluesaga wrote: Nucleus - Elastic Rock Maneige - Ni Vent... Ni Nouvelle But sadly, I only have a couple of fusion albums at the moment.  I plan on investing in some Return to Forever, more Mahavishnu Orcestra (Inner Mounting Flame is great), and more Maneige. I would never call Maneige a fusion band, even though they are quite jazzy in a "fusionesque" way. Maybe symphonic jazz rock or something like that . Anyway, I really REALLY recommend you to get Libre Service.. Self Service, which is a masterpiece - maybe even better than Ni Vent... Ni Nouvelle. And it's from 1978 ! Too bad it's quite hard to get a copy since they have never been released on CDs, I managed to get both Ni Vent... and Libre Service on vinyl, over Ebay. I would really recommend you to get it !!

I don't really consider them to be true fusion either (well, not that album anyway) although they definitely have jazzy elements in their music.

I can get Self Service for $16 on LaserCD.com, so I'm considering it.

Maneige's Ni Vent and Libre Service, Sloche and many other Quebecios bands from the 70's are available on CD, try Greg Walker(UT) or Doug Larson(NJ). I like Ni Vent, best I think in that its more original, rustic and progressive than Libre, which is really better as a fusion album.
the comment above beat me by a minute
    

Edited by DallasBryan - May 11 2006 at 18:43

I garee besides Birds Of Fire, With Inner Mounting Flame,  Return To Forever, Masques, Moroccan Roll, of course Bitches Brew, but i disagree with Spectrum, IMO it doesn't reaches the level of these other masterpieces.

Anything Goes by Brad Mehldau trio is a masterpiece IMO.

Chick Corea& Return To Forever - Light As A Feather is also a masterpiece.

Bluesaga wrote: Nucleus - Elastic Rock Maneige - Ni Vent... Ni Nouvelle But sadly, I only have a couple of fusion albums at the moment.  I plan on investing in some Return to Forever, more Mahavishnu Orcestra (Inner Mounting Flame is great), and more Maneige.

I would never call Maneige a fusion band, even though they are quite jazzy in a "fusionesque" way. Maybe symphonic jazz rock or something like that .

Anyway, I really REALLY recommend you to get Libre Service.. Self Service, which is a masterpiece - maybe even better than Ni Vent... Ni Nouvelle. And it's from 1978 ! Too bad it's quite hard to get a copy since they have never been released on CDs, I managed to get both Ni Vent... and Libre Service on vinyl, over Ebay. I would really recommend you to get it !!

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