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Al Di Meola (any album)
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Association P.C. - Erna Morena
Didier Malherbe - Bloom
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Earthworks
Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Dig?
Al di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco
Brand X - Livestock
Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
Kraan - Live
James Blood Ulmer - Black Rock

Special Guests I, listed in other genres:
Fred Frith & Keep The Dog: The House We Lived In
Gong - Shamal
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Soft Machine - Seven

Special guests II, not on PA:
Tied and Tickled Trio - Observing Systems
Michele Rosewoman - Quintessence

Ah, hard decisions!!


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Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

Al Di Meola (any album)

Don't know if I'd say any album--  some of his 80s/90s stuff is Adult Contempo trash.
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Not one Tribal Tech album or Wayne Krantz record (among others)?

Very strange 'fusion' lists.
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Originally posted by tribalfusions tribalfusions wrote:

Not one Tribal Tech album or Wayne Krantz record (among others)?

Very strange 'fusion' lists.
Of course, you could easily rectify this by posting your own list...
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Lest I be accused of hypocrisy:

Aka Moon - Rebirth
Gregg Bendian's Interzone - Requiem for Jack Kirby
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Last Exit - Iron Path
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame*
Pekka Pohjola - Harakka Bialoipokku
Soft Machine - Fourth
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Todd Sickafoose Group - Tiny Resistors
Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric

*...but it has got to be the version with the 15-minute live version of Noonward Race tacked on. Easily my favourite Mahvishnu track.


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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

Al Di Meola (any album)

Don't know if I'd say any album--  some of his 80s/90s stuff is Adult Contempo trash.


Yeah, I should have said "Any 70s albums"... I could say that about 99% of my favorite bands. Same with movies; they just went downhill and never recovered.
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Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Bruford - One of a Kind
Mahavishnu Orchestra- The Inner Mounting Flame
Miroslav Vitous - Mountain in the Clouds
Al DiMeola - Splendido Motel
Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
Dixie Dregs - What If

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All excellent selections!  Let me mix it up a bit: 

John McLaughlin - Shakti 
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before? 
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Brand X - Masques 
Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere 
Gong - Espresso 
Al Dimeola - Land of the Midnight Sun 
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
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A lot of great albums here, many I have forgotten about in my heap of getting through every album I have acquired
one omission I think needs to be out there is The first Chicago Transit Authority, kinda my intro to Jazz fusion
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1) The United Jazz and Rock Ensemble - Teamwork
2) Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
3) Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
4) Weather Report - Black Market
5) Oregon - Winter Light
6) Gong - Shamal
7) Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior
8) Release Music Orchestra - Garuda
9) Bruford - Feels Good to Me
10) Terje Rypdal - Odyssey

the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble was in my opinion the best jazz rock/fusion band ever, even better than the 3 so-called "big ones" of that genre, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever and Weather Report


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here 2 tracks from "Teamwork" by the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble:


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 ^ Never heard this band before. Just checked it out, very cool!

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I have some doubts. Could Camel be considered a Jazz Rock band in a few moments? I'm thinking in the Mel Collins' era. 
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I think that's stretching it for Camel.They aren't even canterbury except for in a few places. I don't even consider Caravan to be jazz rock/fusion. A band like Soft Machine though would be both Canterbury and jazz rock. 
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Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

 ^ Never heard this band before. Just checked it out, very cool!

This is not surprising. Their albums were recorded on their own label "Mood Records". The albums of this label were until 2014 exclusively distributed by the German shop chain Zweitausendeins (meaning 2001) that started with a shop in Frankfurt and in their heydays had shops in fourteen German cities (among them Berlin and Cologne, where I still live). You could mail-order from this shop chain, but you had to know about it at first of course, and they were pretty much an insider tip. So the band is very little known and their albums are very hard to get.

The musicians of the band are however top tier (Wolfgang Dauner on keyboards, Volker Kriegel on guitar, Eberhard Weber electric and acoustic bass (later replaced by Dave King), Jon Hiseman on drums, Barbara Thompson on saxes and flutes, Charlie Mariano on saxes, flute and nagaswaram, Ian Carr on trumpet, Albert Mangelsdorff on trombone, Ack van Rooyen on trumpet and flugelhorn and from their third album on Kenny Wheeler on flugelhorn. What a line-up!


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Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

 ^ Never heard this band before. Just checked it out, very cool!

This band has Colosseum links, if only by drummer Jon Hiseman and his wife Barbara Thompson, but other jazz stars went through the band as well (Ian Carr, Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Mariano, Wolfgang Dauner etc...)
 
The weakest point IMHO is their "generic" name, but it didn't stop them to be relatively big on the European continent 
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You seem already to be a quite experienced PA member, and here's my top 10:

Fermáta  (TCH)  -  Pieseň z Hôľ  (1977)

The “Gunesh” Ensemble  (USSR)  -  Looking At The Earth  (1984)

Mahavishnu Orchestra  (USA)  -  Birds of Fire  (1973)

Osibisa  (Africa)  -  Osibisa   (1971)

Jean-Luc Ponty  (F)  -  Upon the Wings of Music  (1975)

Return to Forever  (USA)  -  Where Have I Known You  Before (1974)

Secret Oyster  (DK)  -  Sea Sun   (1974)

Weather Report  (USA)  -  Black Market  (1976)

Wigwam  (FIN)  -  Being   (1974)
Stomu Yamashta  (J)  -  Raindog   (1975) 



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I'll list some not often mentioned. Could list many more.

Allan Holdsworth - Hard Hat Area
Nova Collective - The Further Side
Pat Metheny Group - The Road To You
Phil Miller - Conspiracy Theories
Antoine Fafard - Proto Mundi
Dewa Budjana - Mahandini
The Aristocrasts - Culture Clash
Helmet of Gnats - Travelogue
Panzerballett - Planet Z
Hiromi - Spark
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In no particular order:

Santana - Caravanserai
Bruford - Feel's Good to Me
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Time
Antoine Fafard - Ad Perpetuum
RTF - Romantic Warrior
Lenny White - Venusian Summer
Jan Akkerman - Jan Akkerman (1977)
Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)
Devadip Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender
Arti E Mestieri - Tilt - immagini per un orecchio
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