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Rorro 
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 13:40 |
What Jazz Rock/Fusion albums can be considered masterpieces?
Right now i say Birds Of Fire, what other are masterpieces?, Do you think BOF is not a masterpiece? why?.
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Rutgers Joe
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 14:00 |
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Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 14:39 |
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Neil Ardley-Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
Nucleus-first two albums, moreso the second one
Chick Corea-Return to Forever
Those automatically spring to mind, although I'm sure there are more I can't think of at the moment.
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 14:52 |
Dixie Dregs - Night of the Living Dregs
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Jeff Beck - Wired
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 14:57 |
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Birds of Fire is the one that sprang to my mind immediately. Amazing album.
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 14:59 |
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Light as a feather and Romantic Warrior from Return to forever
Black Market and Heavy Weather from Weather Report
Inner Vision Moutains from Mahavishnu is quite good too
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 15:06 |
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Wigwam's Being from 1973 can be considered as a masterpiece of this genre.
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 15:09 |
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Weather Report were too inconsistent to have an album I would consider a masterpiece, and I also find that Romantic Warrior is one of my least favorite RtF albums, go figure.
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 15:23 |
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Stanley Clarke's "Schooldays". Not a weak track on the album.
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 15:30 |
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For me Return to Forever's Romantic Warrior and Brand X's Morrocan Roll.
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 15:31 |
Nucleus - Elastic Rock Maneige - Ni Vent... Ni Nouvelle But sadly, I only have a couple of fusion albums at the moment. I plan on investing in some Return to Forever, more Mahavishnu Orcestra (Inner Mounting Flame is great), and more Maneige.
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soundspectrum
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 15:45 |
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bitches brew
on the corner
inner mounting flame (much better then birds of fire)
romantic warrior...........
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RoyalJelly
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 16:02 |
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Miles, "Bitches Brew" and "Live Evil", maybe "Jack Johnson" too. Weather Report's "Mysterious Traveler". The best Return to Forever IMHO is "Hymn of the 7th Galaxy"...Bill Connors is a much ballsier guitarist than DiMeola, and Corea was wilder here as well, and didn't play synthesizer (not his specialty really).
Some other great fusion albums: Passport "Cross-Collateral" and "Looking Through", the Passport called "Doldinger Jubilee", which was live with Brian Auger, Phillip Catherine, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, totally smokin'!
the 1st 2 Arti & Mistieri albums ("Tilt" & "Giro di Valzer per Domani")
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 16:04 |
 Inferno wrote:
Light as a feather and Romantic Warrior from Return to forever
Black Market and Heavy Weather from Weather Report
Inner Vision Moutains from Mahavishnu is quite good too
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It looks like you've mixed the titles of two Mahavishnu's albums:
The Inner Mounting Flame
and
Visions Of The Emerald Beyond
Other fusion masterpieces:
all Miles Davis' albums from the 70s:
Bitches Brew
Big Fun
Pangaea
Agharta
plus Aura from the 80s.
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski
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MattNYR
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 16:19 |
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I agree with Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra
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DallasBryan
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 16:34 |
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Aera's(germany) Humanum Est and Hand and Fuss? Dzyan's Electric Silence? Secret Oyster's(denmark) Straight to the Krankenhaus? Francios Breant's(france) Sons Optiques?
Cervello's(italy) Melos?
Edited by DallasBryan - May 11 2006 at 16:36
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 16:49 |
Brand X - Livestock, Masques
Mezzoforte - Octopus
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Gong - Gazeuse!
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 17:16 |
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Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 17:36 |
Bluesaga wrote:
Nucleus - Elastic Rock
Maneige - Ni Vent... Ni Nouvelle
But
sadly, I only have a couple of fusion albums at the moment. I
plan on investing in some Return to Forever, more Mahavishnu Orcestra
(Inner Mounting Flame is great), and more Maneige.
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I would never call Maneige a fusion band, even though they are quite
jazzy in a "fusionesque" way. Maybe symphonic jazz rock or something
like that .
Anyway, I really REALLY recommend you to get Libre Service.. Self
Service, which is a masterpiece - maybe even better than Ni Vent... Ni
Nouvelle. And it's from 1978 ! Too bad it's quite hard to get a copy
since they have never been released on CDs, I managed to get both Ni
Vent... and Libre Service on vinyl, over Ebay. I would really recommend
you to get it !!
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wolf0621
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Posted: May 11 2006 at 17:48 |
A lot of the records mentioned in prior posts plus:
Return To Forever: No Mystery
Dixie Dregs: Dregs of The Earth, Industry Standard, Free Fall, What If
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Between Nothingness & Eternity
Colosseum II: War Dance, Strange New Flesh
David Sancious: Forest of Feelings
Tony Williams: Million Dollar Legs
Alan Holdsworth: Sand
Jeff Beck: Wired, Blow By Blow, Live w/Jan Hammer Group
Al DiMeola: Elegant Gypsy, Land Of The Midnight Sun, Casino, Electric Rendezvous
John Scofield: Still Warm
Joe Beck: The Journey
Weather Report: Heavy Weather
Utopia: Another Live
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