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Amazing album. Sometimes I feel that this is my favorite album of all time! Great playing by incredible cast of Musicians: Elton D

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Great, great album. Very approachable and just amazing.

I love "Moon In June". It was the first time I heard Wyatt's voice and at first I couldn't take it seriously. Now I think it's one of the Great voices.

This was my

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Third is just awesome, I first had it in '81 I think, never tired of it even though I've listened to it alot. The combination of early prog, jazz, and tape looping at points is really unlike anything else I've heard, pretty unique unto itself. I really

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Points: 237 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2004 at 18:47

Hey Oreb & Thanks Max!

Glad you memebers enjoy this album!
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I've heard it before but am ashamed to say I don't own it personally... yet...

Being a "bit" of a Canterbury fan that may be unforgivable, but I make up for it with many of the other albums...  I'm

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[QUOTE=Verisimilitude]

I've heard it before but am ashamed to say I don't own it personally... yet...

Being a "bit" of a Canterbury fan that may be unforgivable, but I make up for it with many of the other albums...

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Tomorrow's the day I'll buy it...

What am I saying? It's 1:51am... I'll buy it today!
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Originally posted by Verisimilitude Verisimilitude wrote:

Tomorrow's the day I'll buy it...

What am I saying? It's 1:51am... I'll buy it today!

LOL! Awesome!
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Yeah, I'll pick this one up too. I have Bundles and The Land of Cockayne, strickly to feed my Holdsworth jones.

So tell me, where and whom started the Jazz/Rock fusion movement. Many sources give the credit to Miles Davis "Bitches Brew."

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Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

So tell me, where and whom started the Jazz/Rock fusion movement. Many sources give the credit to Miles Davis "Bitches Brew."

What do you think?

In the USA:Miles Davis & Frank Zappa

In the Europe:Nucleus &

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So, Alexander,

Are you saying this phenomenon occured simultaneously

 

 
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Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

So, Alexander,

Are you saying this phenomenon occured simultaneously

Yes I am.

Ian Carr, the Trumpeter & founder of Nucleus claims

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Bringing this thread back...

I like Third.  Facelift is a rather weak track, but the rest is impressive.  I especially like Slightly All the Time.  Volume 2 is a little better though.
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For me it's surely the best album released by the band...very cool jazzy prog improvisations 
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Quote:

So tell me, where and whom started the Jazz/Rock fusion movement. Many sources give the credit to Miles Davis "Bitches Brew."

What do you think?

Unquote

Check out Stuart Nicholson's definite book on the subject "J

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Well... I've bought this CD it 1 year ago and I've listened to it 1 time!!! mmmmhhh... I think I dont' like it... very strange.
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Tony Williams' Lifetime "Emergency" predates "Bitches"

Indeed it does. Great album by the way...

The band Nucleus even predated Bitches Brew.
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Points: 8548 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2004 at 05:59

Great band, Great album, I just wish someone would release Triple Echo on cd.

 

 

 
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I only have Volume One (Soft Machine) and Volume Two. I'll get Third asap!

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