U.S. Jazz Fusion: 1970

I have a clear top three:

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El Daoud (not fusion, but I'm glad it's included)
Wayne Shorter - Moto Grosso Feio

I like Abraxas, Turn it Over, Earth Rot, Spaces, Burnt Weeny Sandwich as well.

Never even heard of the Herbie Hancock, even though I consider myself quite the fanboy.

(of course) you skipped my favorite Herbie Mann-album. His five star, actual-jazzfusion masterwork. The very beautiful: Stone Flute

-other favorites that is some kind of US Jazz Fusion:

Yusef Lateef - The Diverse Yusef Lateef
The Lloyd McNeill Quartet - Washington Suite
William S. Fischer - Circles
Joe Farrell Quartet - Joe Farrell Quartet
Joe Henderson - Power to the People
The Fourth Way - The Sun and Moon Have Come Together
Jeremy Steig - Energy
+ I prefer Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought (but one has to be able to enjoy some Afro American yodeling)

Saperlipopette! wrote: I have a clear top three: (of course) you skipped my favorite Herbie Mann-album. His five star, actual-jazzfusion masterwork. The very beautiful: Stone Flute

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: I have a clear top three: (of course) you skipped my favorite Herbie Mann-album. His five star, actual-jazzfusion masterwork. The very beautiful: Stone Flute No problem. I just added Herbie Mann's Stone Flute album to the poll retroactively, in place of Barry Miles.

Smart:)

Alice Coltrane for today.  Weasels and Burnt Weeny were not conceived as albums as such - Zappa hastily assembled various out-takes and live recordings following the dissolution of the original Mothers.

Bitches Brew

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - February 11 2025 at 08:35

Might just as well be Chicago v Santana as far as I'm concerned. (I voted Chicago)

Edited by David_D - February 11 2025 at 10:40

Big Sky wrote: David_D wrote: Definitely, Bitches Brew, while Abraxas is quite as sure Latin Rock to me.  Both Discogs and Wikipedia have Jazz Fusion, as well as Latin Rock, Psychedelic Rock and Blues Rock for style / genre listed for Abraxas. Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but obviously someone believes there is enough Jazz Fusion in Abraxas to list it under style / genre of music.

^^That's only the second dumbest comment I've seen here in 2025. There should be more than enough actual supression to be concerned about - so there's really no need to make that sh*t up. If you do not notice the Jazz Fusion element on Abraxas as soon as the album starts with "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts", I don't know what to tell you. It's not like Fusion typically dominates the album, but it's present here and there as a natural part of the whole. That's why multiple tags works better at describing both artists and albums, than just one genre per full discography. You know that an album (or even a song) can represent more than one genre at once right? Or maybe you don't, as I remember you had a hard time understanding that Black Sabbath could be Hard Rock and Heavy Metal simultaneously.

-A couple of albums later Santana went all in an made the full blown Jazz Fusion/Jazz-Rock-masterpiece Caravanserai. Of course their Latin Rock is still present, but that's the thing with Jazz Fusion. It can be fused with practically any kind of musical style - or tradition.