The Jazz-Rock/Fusion Appreciation Thread

LeInsomniac wrote: BaldFriede wrote: The Relesase Music Orchestra is another example of great fusion. The best fusion band of all time, however, are the United Jazz and Rock ensemble (which is not in the archives yet). The line-up alone is fantastic: Jon Hiseman -drums, Eberhard Weber - bass, Volker Kriegel - guitar, Wolfgang Dauner - keyboards, Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone, Ian Carr - trumpet, Ack van Royen - trumpet and flugelhorn, Barbara Thompson - saxes and flutes, Charlie Mariano - saxes and nagaswaram. On their second album Kenny Wheeler (flugelhorn) joined. They should definitely be included in the database. Well then I suggest that you try to add this group and work on a Bio for them, I got interested in them! Do you know an album I should get, or someplace I can get to listen some mp3 of them?

There are some videos of them on YouTube, with Dave King replacing Eberhard Weber. Here the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtpdmjnLnTw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1qxvJy7Nc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DX4IW1aAsc

I hope these videos whet your appetite for more.

Their albums are available from Mood records. Here the link:
http://www.jazzpages.com/MoodRecords/mood_ef.htm

Start with their first album "Live im Schützenhaus" from 1977 and work your way forward from there. Fusion of the very finest; they definitely don't have to hide from anyone.


Edited by BaldFriede - August 07 2007 at 08:30

Killer groovy stuff !!! Is that a toilet plunger the trombone player is using for a mute?

Angelo wrote: fuxi wrote: BaldFriede wrote: The best fusion band of all time, however, are the United Jazz and Rock ensemble (which is not in the archives yet). The line-up alone is fantastic: Jon Hiseman -drums, Eberhard Weber - bass (etc.) Of course the great Eberhard Weber should also be in Progarchives! Hmmm. The ensemble I don't know (I'll have to check the video's Friede posted), but Eberhard Weber solo might be a bit off limits for PA. I'm listening to Colours of Chlöe right now, and although it's really good stuff, it's not rock - and definitely not progressive rock. He's a great player though!

I agree about Weber, at least his solo albums and his band Colours; he is definitely jazz. But The United Jazz and Rock Ensemble don't have "Rock" in their name for nothing.

Sunhillow_ wrote: Mahavishnu Orchestra!!!!!!!!!!!  Listen to this 500 times and then you can die. hehehe

Angelo wrote: Eberhard Weber solo might be a bit off limits for PA. I'm listening to Colours of Chlöe right now, and although it's really good stuff, it's not rock - and definitely not progressive rock. He's a great player though!

Of course it's jazz, but so are Weather Report, Pat Metheny and John Abercrombie. Eberhard Weber's prog affinities are at least as striking as theirs.

andu wrote: ^ One can rock even without electric guitars; that's what Weather Report does.

and the RFSQ

Atavachron wrote: andu wrote: ^ One can rock even without electric guitars; that's what Weather Report does.  and the RFSQ

I had to google that

Yeah, besides, we both know that YYNJJiQ is exclusively a guitar band, but hardly rocks at all.

How could I forget them? Almost as good as NiBBLoTaSS.

andu wrote: One can rock even without electric guitars; that's what Weather Report does.

Oh, so THAT's what they do, eh? Now that sounds REALLY convincing! As for Eberhard Weber, of course he's a jazz musician, but on albums like SILENT FEET and YELLOW FIELDS he "approaches" (as it were) symphonic prog from a jazz angle, just as Pat Metheny did on (among others) THE WAY UP. Weber may not be a ROCKER, but neither is blooming Klaus Schulze...