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Flip_Stone
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 11 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 388 |
Posted: March 10 2006 at 12:53 | |
Some recommended jazz rock groups: Brand X Bruford Gong (Expresso period) Mahavishnu Orchestra Jean-Luc Ponty
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Dick Heath
Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12810 |
Posted: March 10 2006 at 13:16 | |
Waiting upon Amazon.UK Marketplace/Caimen USA vendor to supply - apparently on its way (with a 4 to 10 day delay!!!). In the meanwhile ordered from the same place - just over 7 quid for goodness sake:
The reviews read so far of the above Terj Rypdal latest, (i.e. Jazzwise, London Times), have been excellent - apparently inspired by Bitches Brew, Rypdal is back on form as a guitarist playing jazz rock (I hope still superbly blending Hendrix & Marvin) Also waiting for another early and forgotten jazz rock album, Breathing of Statues by Viola Crayola
(vigorously recommended by the jazz rock afficados of the Fusenet
website, and these guys were also going on about the release of a
second Electromagnets album on CD - but only via Eric Johnson's
website??) . Edited by Dick Heath |
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Dick Heath
Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12810 |
Posted: March 10 2006 at 13:28 | |
Flip thanks for the recommendations. Please note, this thread is aimed at letting others on PA know of new releases and reissues by bands/artists in the jazz rock field, who may not be listed in the archives but should be heard. e.g. Talking of Brand X, try: Tunnels' Progressivity
wrt Mahavishnu, try McLaughlin's The Promise with an all star line-up or the excellent modern re-interpretators of MO's music Mahavaishnu Project (and both Jan Hammer and John McLaughlin approved):
for (the jazz rock) Gong, try Gongzilla (go to their website for the best album deals):
And my current favourite in the jazz rock area the Screaming Headless Torsos' compilation Choice Cuts: |
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Zac M
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 03 2005 Status: Offline Points: 3577 |
Posted: March 10 2006 at 13:31 | |
Dick, I have nothing associated with the ECM label except for an EDQ
album, which I like. I was just wondering if you could recommend a
"definitive" one, I'm up for anything really, and interested in testing
out some recordings from members on that label. Thanks.
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
-Merleau-Ponty |
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Harkmark
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Posted: March 10 2006 at 14:47 | |
How about Michael Mantler/Edvard Gorey - "The hapless child and other inscrutable stories" (ECM/WATT 1976). Avant jazz/prog or something like that.
Robert Wyatt on vocals, Steve Swallow on bass, Rypdal on guitar, Carla Bley on kbds, Jack DeJohnette on drums. Amazing. Fantastic. |
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Nipsey88
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Posted: March 10 2006 at 15:34 | |
Yup, both can be tracked down on CD, but I only have the first. |
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Dick Heath
Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12810 |
Posted: March 10 2006 at 15:57 | |
Meurglys Where do start with an outstanding independent record label, renown for its jazz, jazz rock, free jazz, avante jazz, avante rock, world fusion and even RIO. BTW Watt is an American indie label handled by ECM, for which the Austrian trumpet Michael Mantler and Carla Bley are probably the best known artists. So starting with the more avante jazz/rock and perhaps the more challenging recommednations here, then some try Michael Mantler, like the album mentioned above. Mantler tends to encourage the best vocal performances from people as wide ranging as Robert Wyatt, Jack Bruce, Marianne Faithfull, Kevin Coyne, while singing lyrics by Pinter, Beckett etc. You tend to find unusual combinations of musicians with Mantler too, e.g. I think on a live album you'll find Jack Bruce, Nick Mason and Ian Underwood........Also greatly like Movies by Mantler with a line-up that includes Tony Williams, Larry Coryell, Steve Swallow. Carla Bley's masterwork is probably Escalator Over The Hill (originally a 3 LP set, now two CD set) witha massive line-up of rock and jazz musicians. BTW what I've always considered to be really a Carla Bley album disguised as a Nick Mason album is Fictitious Sports (Harvest), with Robert Wyatt as an added bonus on vocals. To ECM. I'll suggest ~ 10, in no particular order but guarantee others will come up with completely different choices of equal validity. Cloud About Mercury: David Torn. Mark Isham and the then current Krimson rhythm section playing - and setting the way for B.L.U.E Night: John Abercrombie, Jan Hammer, Michael Brecker & Jack DeJohnette. Rosensfole: Agne Buen Garnas, Jan Garbarek. A classic of world fusion, mixing medieval Norwegian folk music with modern synths and largely Indian percussion Pat Metheny Group: American Garage - my first introduction of Metheny here doing great guitar lead jazz rock and stilll a favourite 25 years later. Actually Pat Metheny's Rarum: Selected Recordings released about 18 months ago, is a near perfect collection of tracks from Metheny's ECM years Ralph Towner: Solo Concert. Master of the 12 string acoustic and clsssical guitars in stunning solo form live in concert John Surman: Road To St Ives. Part of Surman's experiment in one man ambient jazz. Terj Rypdal : Chaser - hard edged jazz rock. The title track is a tour de force and worth the price of the CD: Rypdal with the effects and all stops out Zakir Hussain: Making Music, Indo jazz fusion from the original Shakti tablalist - and the only album with both Garbarek and McLaughlin together Lots of excellent albums by bassist Eberhard Weber, and those on which he guests (esp. Jan Garbarek albums of the 90's). Ampersonal favourite is the mid 70's album by Gary Burton Quintet (featuring a very young Pat Metheny) and Eberhard Weber as a the named guest is Ring. Remember Burton was one the earlier jazz men to experiment with rock in the 60's. SImilarly with English double bassist Dave Holland, too many good ones to choice, but perhaps with view to the Coleman's M-Base experiments of the late 80's try Dave Holland Quintet's The Razor's Edge, with Coleman and Robin Eubanks in the line up Miroslav Vituous ditto. ECM seem largely to record/release Vitous as a double bass player, but with To Be Continued (with Rydpal and Jack DeJohnette) you'll hear his last great album playing electric bass. Everyman Band: Without Warning Avant jazz rock with David Torn (guitars & loops) and Marty Fogel on near free- jazz sax. And finally, the present with nu.fusion: check out Nils Petter Molvaer's Solid Ether - muted trumpet, part inspired by Miles Davis, with drum'n'bass and scratch, for chill-out variations of European chamber 'jazz'(???) Start point you may ask? David Torn's Cloud About Mercury |
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eugene
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Posted: March 10 2006 at 16:52 | |
Has anyone heard about band called Les Projectionnistes. Judging by names they are French or Canadiens or French-Canadiens. In only one album I have "Copie Zero" they offer beautiful mixture of jazz-rock/fusion with avant-gard/RIO.
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Dr. Occulator
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 04 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 628 |
Posted: March 10 2006 at 18:29 | |
John Abercrombie (guitarist) most notably Timeless, Night and Getting There
Beautifully constructed melodies and improvisation. For me Pat Metheny is to Yes (bright, transparent) what John Abercrombie (dark, deeper) is to King Crimson. |
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My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head.
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Dick Heath
Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12810 |
Posted: March 10 2006 at 18:31 | |
Interesting parallel |
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Zac M
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Posted: March 10 2006 at 19:00 | |
Thanks for all that information.
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
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nobody
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Posted: March 11 2006 at 04:46 | |
The Fourth Way is a seminal and vastly underrated band that existed from 1968-1970, consisting of Mike Nock (keyboards), Michael White (violin), Ron McClure (bass) and Eddie Marshall (drums). They made 3 records for Capitol's "progressive" imprint Harvest: The Sun and the Moon Have Come Together (a live concert from Berkeley, California in 1968), The Fourth Way (their only studio album, pictured above, from 1969), and Werwolf (a live album from the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1970). Of these, only the first one has ever been on CD and that disc has been out of print for close to 20 years. All 3 of these smoke, but the latter one from the Montreux festival just about melts your stereo... they have a furious, spacey/jammy sound, tons of improvisation, kind of like the Ian Carr-led band Nucleus but even more out there and "free". If you can find any of these albums you should not hesitate to grab them... they feature a great balance between earthfunk and spacejam that is totallly unique and fantastic. |
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Dick Heath
Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12810 |
Posted: March 11 2006 at 05:48 | |
Excellent news. Stuart Nicholson in his Jazz Rock A History spends a chapter or two on pre-Bitches jazz rock, but many of those recordings have been slow to appear on CD*. To date I have relied on a burn taken for a LP copy of the first album, and have a copy of violinist's Michael White's late 70's Lp The X Factor - which was more about trying to jump on the jazz funk band wagon of the late 70's. *What comes to mind wrt CD reissues are: Count's Rock Band, a couple of Charles Lloyd albums. And wrt to the broader range of fusion the first two John Mayer/Joe Harriott Indo Jazz Fusion Double Quintet albums are available as a twoforone, Mike Westbrooks Marching Songs (Vol 1 and 2), and Ian Carr's pre-Nucleus recordings with Don Rendell (?). And I think some of Gary Burton's records??? What about some of those mid-60's albums of the NYC collective which had Larry Coryell, Mike Brecker involved? |
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Dick Heath
Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12810 |
Posted: March 21 2006 at 18:37 | |
Recent additions:
Terj Rypdal Vossebrygg (ECM) - Rypdal makes a serious move in Norway's nu.fusion movement with several well known Norwegian jazzmen and accompanied by the nu-fusion master Bugge Wesseltoft. Said to be the Bitches Brew of 21st Century - too little time to digest that aspect. A couple of new releases from Montreal's Unicorn Records: Karcius with Sphere and Sibylle with their self-titled album. Check out the ALT2 - see separate thread for details how you can hear from some tunes of these new releases. |
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Dick Heath
Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12810 |
Posted: March 30 2006 at 09:11 | |
Just picked up this statement of endorsement on the Fusenet website Quote: And let me add a quote for my favorite Michael Mantler recording - For Something There: End Quote A reminder that Nick Mason did get in with really serious jazz company. Recent recommendations, stemming from the PA Jan Hammer discography and prompting by those who know here: Elvin Jones: Up The Mountain (John Coltrane's favourite drummer, and Hammer in pretty serious straight jazz mode. Horacee Arnold: Tales Of An Exonerated Flea - and with a real who's who of jazz rock: Jan Hammer, Rick Laird, John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner, David Earle Johnson, etc. Great album, great groove and why have I missed for 30+ years until now? If you like Mahavishnu, RTF, Oregon, etc. you have to try this record.
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mrgd
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 02 2005 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 822 |
Posted: March 30 2006 at 21:34 | |
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDES ' VERTICAL VISIONS" is good--also 'SCI-FI".Great accoustic and electric bass playing with ahot band I think.
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Looking still the same after all these years...
mrgd |
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Dick Heath
Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12810 |
Posted: March 31 2006 at 04:18 | |
And his reaction to being a disciple to the Wynton Marsalis creed of jazz -purityfor a long time and then discovering Weather Report recordings!!!! |
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 04:34 | |
The Best Miles Davis' album from the 80s:
Composed and arranged by Palle Mikkelborg, with excellent participation of John McLaughlin. All styles of popular music are incorporated within the compositions - blues, reggae, etc. And it's sort of a concept album - every track's title is a name of a particular colour. RECOMMENDED !!! |
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kidofthecentury
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 08:55 | |
Virgil Donati is one of my favourite drummers, and probably one of the most skilled in the world. I haven't listened to that album, but I wll Thanks for the hint. Edited by kidofthecentury |
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Zac M
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Posted: April 20 2006 at 02:31 | |
I have won a few ECM albums and bought two last weekend, here's the
list (by the way, I listened to samples of the ones I am getting and/or
read reviews):
Chick Corea-Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 (excellent, as I expected) Steve Tibbetts-Big Map Idea (I'm REALLY impressed by this one, amazing stuff!) Michael Mantler-Hide and Seek Brahem/Surman/Holland-Thimar John Abercrombie-Open Land Garbarek/Khan-Ragas and Sagas Garbarek-In Praise of Dreams The last five are from an ebay seller and most were around five bucks a piece, I can't wait to hear them. |
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