Jazz-Rock

Hello Martin.

Edited by erik neuteboom - October 20 2006 at 13:05

The only jazz rock bands i own are Maneige and Leb i Sol,but both awesome

Some recommendations in the jazz and rock field:

Neil Ardley
Ian Carr projects
Creative Rock (GER)
IF
Carla Bley (I especially like the first album)
Embryo
Kollektiv
Early Chicago and VII
Pierre Moerlen's Gong
Maneige
The Greatest Show on Earth
Chick Corea (Piano Improvisations and RtF are my favs)
ANYTHING with Jan Garbarek (his Group projects are more jazz rock)
Later period Soft Machine of course
Steve Tibbetts
Oregon and related solo projects (they are one of my favs!)
BEN-S/T (Vertigo)

and some more I'm forgetting, not including the standard jr bands

I hope to go in depth with these more at a later date

If anyone has any questions, feel free to PM.


Edited by Zac M - October 19 2006 at 22:39

Absolutely essential to any discussion of what's loosely called jazz-rock must include The Fourth Way, a San Francisco group formed in 1968 by Kiwi pianist Mike Nock which also featured Eddie Marshall on drums, Ron McClure on bass and Michael White on violin.

Their albums, made for the Capitol "prog" offshoot Harvest, are as yet unreissued, which is an unconscionable crime against Humanity IMO.  Here is what they look like if you want to go "In Search Of":

The Sun and the Moon Have Come Together (live in Berkeley, CA 1968)

The Fourth Way (1969)

Werwolf (live, Montreux Jazz Festival 1970)

Also essential are the albums reedsmith Eddie Harris made where he altered the mouthpiece of a trumpet to be reed-based.  These include:

Silver Cycles (1969)

Free Speech (1969)

Live at Newport (1970)

Also worthy of mention are records by the Brian Auger Trinity where Julie Driscoll (Julie Tippetts) is on hand, such as this one from 1969:
 

And speaking of things Tippett, please don't let yourself be without this 1971 gem:


Sorry for the picture-happy post, but at least you have a nice shopping list for the weekend if you don't already have those.

Dick Heath wrote: Rutgers Joe wrote: Stanley Clarke's first four albums are ESSENTIAL jazz-rock. Do the four include include Clarke's first album: Children of Forever - several band's second albums are in fact the eponymously titled ones : BST and Chicago

Didn't know the Children Of Forever one but for me Clarke lost it with 'I Wanna Play For You'. The jazz rock gave way to jazz funk like so many had done. I bought about 20 fusion CDs for 50p a go in a nearby junk/second hand store. I kept about half of them as so much of it was this kind of 'fusak'. None more disappointing than 'Fuse One'- awe inspiring line up with Clarke, McLaughlin etc but it verged on disco.    

Inner Mounting flame changed my life.

Jazz-Rock is one of my favorite genres. My fav jazz-rock bands are Brand X, Dixie Dregs, Bruford, Gong and RTF.

Rutgers Joe wrote: Stanley Clarke's first four albums are ESSENTIAL jazz-rock.

Do the four include include Clarke's first album: Children of Forever - several band's second albums are in fact the eponymously titled ones : BST and Chicago

oliverstoned wrote: Please tell me why this thread has been moved in non prog music, while Jazzrock is one of the main styles defined on progarchives.com?? There's something going wrong on PA.

I absolutely love this album. By concept, brilliant. By performance, eclectic. By sensation, acutely breathtaking here and there.

I also consider it progressive. Perhaps Corea isn't entirely an adequate Jazz-Rock artist, but some things he made have the great prog impulse. (relative)