Help with fusion

Coincidently the jazz rock fusion web discussion site Fusenet have currently started a thread: your top ten favourite but obvious jazz rock albums, and your top ten "obscure" jazz rock albums. Any thoughts???

Cinema wrote: Be sure to check out these fantastic fusion bands which I haven't yet seen mentioned: - McGill/Manring/Stevens

 

Scott McGill is worth chasing down through Finneus Gauge (sort of UK meets Bruford Band, or Echolyn goes jazz rock), Hand Farm (hint of late 80's Holdsworth). Michael Manring is a great unsung bass player, found working with many other folks - for instance, check out Yo Miles (a Miles Davis tribute bands) Up River double (issue dby Cuneiform last year), with Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Tom Coster, Steve Smith etc. 

 

I've often suggested the legato aspect of McGill work, reminds me of Holdsworth. But there are so many Holdsworthian axemen out there nowadays:

John Erickson of (Whoopgnash, based Minnesota) - their  first album is a must.

Austrian guitarist Alex MacHacek, now based in USA and working with Terry Bozzio - seek out McHacek's Featuring Ourselves (note: leader and band names are spelt differently)

French guitarists Jacques La Greca , (Ipsis File) and Nguyen Le who uses legato with his Vietnamese influence jazz fusion.

Gamelon

Susan Weinert: her album Running Out Of Time was my favourite release of 2005 (but I've said that here before)

Be sure to check out these fantastic fusion bands which I haven't yet seen
mentioned:

- A Triggering Myth

- Kenso

- Priam

- McGill/Manring/Stevens

- Mirage

Area

Arti e mestieri

Perigeo

Esagono

Etna

Periferia del mondo

TheProgtologist wrote: Try some newer fusion out: Niacin - Time Crunch and Organik Attention Deficit - The Idiot King Ohm - Amino Acid Flashback Jonas Hellborg - Abstract Logic Anything by Tribal Tech.

I can't believe I forgot that one! It is excellent.

Soft Machine

Miles Davis (Bitches Brew, In A Silent Way, Agharta)

Frank Zappa (Hot Rats)

Traffic- mach II

Chase

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Hatfield and the North

Matching Mole

John Mayall (Bare Wires, Jazz Fusion)

Colosseum

Somer favorites that come to mind.

Weather Report: I Sing The Body Electric
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
John Abercombie: Timeless
John Abercrombie: Night

Chcick Corea's Ekectrik band has some great albums too.

I recommend:

• Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour (1976)
• Brand X - Moroccan Roll (1977)
• Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (1972)
• Dixie Dregs - What If (1978)
• Gong - Shamal (1976)
• Gong - Gazeuse! (1976)
• Passport - Looking Thru (1974)
• Soft Machine - Fourth (1971)
• Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior (1976)
• Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo (1972)
• Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All (1975)

timothy leary wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: If you can find any thing by German prog-fusion band Eiliff from the early seventies go for it. Journey to the Center of Their Third One is the standout. Also you might want to check ou Guru Guru`s Dance Of the Flames which features the same  guita/sitar player. Sounds a bit like 1973 Mahavishnu Orchestra at times minus the key board and violin. Also, although hard to find you might want to check out the second Forcefield II album with Jan Akkerman on guitar and Cozy Powell on the kit. the guitar player for Guru Guru on the album Dance............. Awesome

 

 

And not forgetting Rainer Bruninghaus the house keyboard player on ECM REcords nowadays and regular in Jan Garbarek's 90's groups 

If you can find any thing by German prog-fusion band Eiliff from the early seventies go for it. Journey to the Center of Their Third One is the standout. Also you might want to check ou Guru Guru`s Dance Of the Flames which features the same  guita/sitar player. Sounds a bit like 1973 Mahavishnu Orchestra at times minus the key board and violin. Also, although hard to find you might want to check out the second Forcefield II album with Jan Akkerman on guitar and Cozy Powell on the kit.


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