Jazz-Rock

 

My prog pusher (Alan Freeman of Ultima Thule) has introduced my to 4 or 5 Italian bands, that have been influenced by Soft Machine (at various periods of Machine's career), to a greater or lesser extent.

 

I have to say as somebody who has been into jazz rock since 1968/9, I do find it surprising that you younger guys seem to have only  mainstream 70's jazz rock albums in your collection, and very little beyond the 80's. The genre didn't stopped in around 1983, it has distinctly moved on and innovation is very much to be heard in 2007 bands and their album releases.  If nothing else check out the bands that developed out the 70's big name bands. BTW my surprise is tempered by appreciating that jazz rock fusion has been ghettoised/forced underground and released by  small indie labels (if at all), and therefore lacking publicity and/or radio play, and no display in record stores. However, there are plenty of websites providing excellent info (e.g. Fusenet) as well as threads here at PA.

Nucleus 'Elastic Rock'

Nucleus 'We'll Talk About It Later'

Nucleus (Credited to Ian Carr) 'Solor Plexus'

Nucleus 'Belladonna'

Nucleus 'Labyrinth (Only because of the track ''Ariadne'' with Norma Winstone on vox)

Ben 'S/t'

IF 'S/t'

Coley 'Goodbye Brains'

 

 

Yeh you guessed it i'm a Nucleus fan..