Jazz Rock Fusion Masterpieces

I garee besides Birds Of Fire, With Inner Mounting Flame,  Return To Forever, Masques, Moroccan Roll, of course Bitches Brew, but i disagree with Spectrum, IMO it doesn't reaches the level of these other masterpieces.

Anything Goes by Brad Mehldau trio is a masterpiece IMO.

Chick Corea& Return To Forever - Light As A Feather is also a masterpiece.

Maneige's Ni Vent and Libre Service, Sloche and many other Quebecios bands from the 70's are available on CD, try Greg Walker(UT) or Doug Larson(NJ). I like Ni Vent, best I think in that its more original, rustic and progressive than Libre, which is really better as a fusion album.
the comment above beat me by a minute
    

Edited by DallasBryan - May 11 2006 at 18:43

erlenst wrote: 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. 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 !!

I don't really consider them to be true fusion either (well, not that album anyway) although they definitely have jazzy elements in their music.

I can get Self Service for $16 on LaserCD.com, so I'm considering it.

Miles Davis- Bitches Brew! i have the complete sessions - 4 CDs worth of fusion-y goodness! It makes me happy.

What about Hatfield and the North's "The Rotter's Club".  I've always considered the later Canterbury bands like Hatfield and the North and National Health to be fusion bands.  I mean, come on.  This album is flawless.  Even the bonus tracks are brilliant.  Have you ever heard fusion that beautiful...that majestic.

wolf0621 wrote: 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

fragile43k wrote: What about Hatfield and the North's "The Rotter's Club".  I've always considered the later Canterbury bands like Hatfield and the North and National Health to be fusion bands.  I mean, come on.  This album is flawless.  Even the bonus tracks are brilliant.  Have you ever heard fusion that beautiful...that majestic.

Birds Of Fire.

Amen to that.

TRC is also Brilliant.


Edited by Mr. Sanchez - May 12 2006 at 08:25

Yeah, Bitches Brew is another great listen, so are the others you mentioned Phil.
Spectrum isn't bad either, but nowhere near the standards of the others.

Edited by Rutgers Joe - May 12 2006 at 12:25