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Tribal Tech needs more love in this thread. While it may be hard to single out just one album, I think their body of work stand among the best.
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10-03-2019 05:23 AM
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Certain Prog bands crossed into Fusion; Bruford and UK and Soft Machine have been mentioned. If you like those, check out Hatfield & The North (especially The Rotters Club album), Gilgamesh (Another Fine Tune You’ve Gotten Me Into) and Soft Head (Rogue Element; no guitar on this last, but an absolutely bonkers electric piano, soprano sax, electric bass, drums lineup. Like Ask The Ages? Dig this).
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Also, and demonstrating the suitability of a Les Paul in a Jazz context via Phil Lea and his LP Deluxe:
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welcome aboard L50....
nice... super huge fan of early prog/ uk fusion..so many great players and recordings...nucleus, gong, softs (from which pour forth almost everything)...robert wyatt himself was essential player in scene as he hung around usa after softs/hendrix tour...got involved with carla bley..played with coryell etc...went back to uk inspired!
same scene holdsworth emerged from...percy jones on bass as welll...none better..why they played with everybody!! hah
cheers
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Reading through this thread brought back some memories. It took a few tries for my Alexa to pull up WR’s Heavy Weather. I kept getting the weather report.
RTF LAAF always struck me as a Latin band put together by the Scientologists to better “communicate” with audiences. Then Chick and Stan heard MO and quickly retooled. Frankly, I don’t find that the post-LAAF fusion RTF stands up (unlike, for example, MO, which is still as heavy as it gets, or Head Hunters, notwithstanding the awful synth solo on Chameleon). I winced a bit listening to Vulcan Worlds recently. And it was further downhill after that. My opinion, that’s all.
Broadening the definition a little, I recall with fondness a Danny Kootch outing called The Section, as well as T Scott’s first LA Express albums with Robben Ford and Larry Carlton.
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Some things I haven's seen mentioned in the thread
Brecker Brothers -- Back to Back; Heavy Metal Bebop; Don't Stop the Music
Hammer and Jerry Goodman -- Like Children
Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group - Live
Little Feat -- Time Loves a Hero
Sco - Still Warm
John
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I heard Beck and Hammer back in the day. Terrific concert. They traded licks, with Hammer taking Beck’s licks and in a blink of the eye varying them into something amazingly ornate and complex. Beck finally dropped his hands in mock surrender.
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Originally Posted by Bach5G
Who started this thread?!?
Oh...
Anyway, listening to the Grateful Dead's Without a Net today. Longtime deadheads may disagree, but I think this is their best recording on vinyl...pristine production, the vocals are not immaculate but "good enough", the rhythm section is tight as a cat's a$$, and the jams are high level. Also special marks for the boys' guitar tone. The versions of Birdsong and Eyes of the World in particular veer into jazz fusion territory...the latter features Branford Marsalis on sax.
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Eyes of The World is a really fun set of changes to jam on.
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Originally Posted by Doctor Jeff
The sound quality is great, and yeah, that "Eyes" with Branford is killin.'
I think my favorite fusion records are Herbie's "Sextant" and Badal Roy's "Daybreak,"with Kenny Wessel on guitar.
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Originally Posted by Average Joe
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Excellent thread to dig into your favs. To avoid obvious choices I recommend this:
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Originally Posted by Tomcat
One funny thing happened when I went to the restroom; There was graffiti on the wall and one thing was "Joe Pass pissed here".
When I went in, Lee was just finishing, and after he was done, and turned around he said something like "I don't know if I'm qualified to piss here if Joe did!".
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Most of you guys probably wouldn't think of it as "fusion," but I do -- Buckshot LeFonque
John
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for you jeff beck-jan hammer fans...a track-blue wind- from their hollywood bowl reunion from 2016
cheers
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Originally Posted by neatomic
This plus Inner Mounting Flame got me through my 15th year of life. I'd love to hear them both again, though with the ears I had then.
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Listening to a couple of cuts, I wonder if JH gets enough credit for his contribution to MO? And, I guess, by extension, to fusion history.
Last edited by Bach5G; 12-12-2019 at 09:49 PM.
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Yep - here's one you missed - a remarkable, unique record - one of my all time favourites - which I place on a pedestal level with 'Sergeant Pepper' for inventiveness and innovation - and which some might call proto-fusion (occasional background horns on a couple of tracks) or prog-rock:-
The Soft Machine - Volume II - Probe Records - 1969
They went on to be more decisively and sophisticatedly jazz-rock in subsequent years, but not as gripping - that 1969 year was one of amazing inventiveness and breakneck advances in their musical sophistication- from where they'd been to where they were going. Volumes 1 to 4 are essential listening - after that, well, the magic 'progressively' wore off.....
See Youtube: Jazz Bilzen 1969 tienerklanken (11.00 through to 25.50)
For a better sound on this same musical piece, hear their classic studio performance:
'Moon In June' (long version) live at the BBC 1969 (also on YouTube)
And the most razor-sharp, professionally together and blasting-it-out jazz rock gig I ever saw? Chick Corea's 'Return To Forever' (with Bill Connors) at the Guildford Civic Hall, U.K., 1973 (I think!)
Buy the CD of Soft Machine Volume 2 - you'll be glad you did !
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Originally Posted by Bach5G
hammer was also wicked good on the stanley clarke lp mentioned above..and on timeless..the first john abercrombie solo lp on ecm!!! cobhams spectrum with guitarist tommy bolin!
his great use of the pitch control wheel on early synths to bend notes was particularly attractive to guitar players..beck has based his entire career on it!! via whammy..which he uses constantly!!!
so yeah...agree, jan hammer was an early fusion treasure
cheers
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Originally Posted by QsDuesBlues
and wyatt still with us...despite it all..
cheers
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Hugh Hopper deserves greater recognition and name dropping. Great player, and really innovative.
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Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
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I must also shoutout to Jeff Sipe, Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane for the masterpiece, “Temporal Analogues of Paradise.”
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Brecker Brothers - Heavy Metal BeBop
Also, Weather Report's 3rd album Sweetnighter. I really dig pre Jaco WP.
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