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“Heavy Metal” Jazz?
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Holy shirt
That's pretty amazing.
What is it about "creative music" ensembles and empty chairs?
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Mike Manring's album Thonk is a pretty good cross between jazz and rock\metal.
You could also check out Soften The Glare, which has the bass player of Mudvayne. Or Nuclear Power Trio which has three metal guys doing some very interesting fusion.
I was also looking for something similar a few years back. There doesn't seem to be a ton of cross over because the way rock\metal works doesn't leave a lot of room for the orchestration you see in jazz. Metal is pretty rigid with its writing, and doesn't go for the freeform style of jazz. Transversely, hardcore jazz fans are little snobby about the tones and instruments they think are "allowed" in jazz.
Honestly when you mix rock\metal with jazz you get prog. Bands like Dream Theater, Karnivool, Cynic, and current Opeth. If you mix jazz with death metal, and a some drugs, you get what is often labeled technical death metal (Suffocation, Deeds of Flesh, Gorguts, Obscura, Rivers Of Nihil, Black Crown Initiate, etc.)
You could also check out Soften The Glare, which has the bass player of Mudvayne. Or Nuclear Power Trio which has three metal guys doing some very interesting fusion.
I was also looking for something similar a few years back. There doesn't seem to be a ton of cross over because the way rock\metal works doesn't leave a lot of room for the orchestration you see in jazz. Metal is pretty rigid with its writing, and doesn't go for the freeform style of jazz. Transversely, hardcore jazz fans are little snobby about the tones and instruments they think are "allowed" in jazz.
Honestly when you mix rock\metal with jazz you get prog. Bands like Dream Theater, Karnivool, Cynic, and current Opeth. If you mix jazz with death metal, and a some drugs, you get what is often labeled technical death metal (Suffocation, Deeds of Flesh, Gorguts, Obscura, Rivers Of Nihil, Black Crown Initiate, etc.)
okcrum
in your chest
oddly, i know the name, but not the music.
to that track: who doesn’t love sludgey grooves?
Great to see that video of Colosseum II in concert. At 11:15, drummer Jon Hiseman (R.I.P.) introduces "Desperado," my favorite track (including an energetic bass solo!) from their "Electric Savage" album. Gary Moore (R.I.P.) had the chops and melodic sensibilities to excel in hard rock, blues, and even this band's fusion material.
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I was fortunate enough to get to see them in 1973.
And they were the opener for FZ & TMOI! 
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I get that. Did you see him on the Ric with Bill Connors?
Good times
i saw that version of rtf, don’t remember which bass. i think he also used an eb2d for a bit. i saw later version with dimeola many times as well. the conners one has stuck better for me.
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