jazz-rock fusion noob

[Noox]

hey guys, can you recommend any tunes to learn for someone who is pretty good at straight ahead jazz, but is just starting rock fusion (me)?

Thanks

[Jazzophobe]

Originally Posted by Noox

hey guys, can you recommend any tunes to learn for someone who is pretty good at straight ahead jazz, but is just starting rock fusion (me)?

Thanks

Yes! Anything off of Allan Holdsworth's 'Metal Fatigue' album. John Scofield's 'Still Warm'. Mahavishnu Orchestra 'The Trident Sessions'. Dimeola's 'Elegant Gypsy'...among other things by these fine artists...good examples of "fusion" although that is a somewhat outdated term these days...

[Scrybe]

Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow and Wired albums.

[cosmic gumbo]

Stratus by Billy Cobham. Larry Coryell and the 11th House played some very jazzy fusion. Miles, A Tribute to Jack Johnson!!!

[3shiftgtr]

If you're already good at straight ahead, ya might want to try to 'fuze up' the tunes you already know.

Impressions with a fast, hard fusion groove and distorted guitar, or Watermelon Man with some funk and a Sco tone, are examples.

.....or learn some tunes that are considered fusion standards:
Spain or Got A Match - Chick Corea
Phase Dance or Bright Size Life - Metheny
Birdland or A Remark You Made - Weather Report
Teen Town or Continuum- Jaco Pastorius
Chromazone or Gossip - Mike Stern
Fred or Proto Cosmos - Allan Pasqua/Allan Holdsworth

Most of the Sher Real Books have fusion stuff in them. Scofield's Trim and Blue Matter are in one of them (can't remember which) and those are pretty well known by American fuse heads.

Hope this helps!