Fusion favourites

[bearhart74]

 

[Yonni]

Love it. I always liked what I’d heard of Belew but wasn’t aware of this band. Another winner from the fusion thread!

 

[StereoPlayer]

Just picked this up in a secondhand record store. Dirt cheap. I’m working on a spread sheet with bands and artists cross referenced. Not sure I can pull off the Fusion Flavour map. Seems like a lot of work but I’ll keep picking away at it to see what I can come up with. View attachment 4068116

Excellent album. IIRC, lots of great musicians on this one.
Personnel[edit]

• Al Di Meola – guitars, synthesizer, percussion, vocals
• Chick Corea – piano, marimba
• Barry Miles – keyboards, synthesizer
• Stanley Clarke – bass guitar, vocals
• Anthony Jackson – bass guitar
• Jaco Pastorius – bass guitar
• Steve Gadd – drums
• Alphonse Mouzon – drums
• Lenny White – drums
• Mingo Lewis – percussion
• Patty Buyukas – vocals

 

[Sid Fang]

That's a nice long list of people, most of whom I have on record, many of whom I've seen, but...

How can you list Mr. Bungle and *not* list Sleepytime Gorilla Museum? I consider them both avant-garde more than "fusion", but if anything SGM was more fusionesque.

Why didn't Magma make it? A couple of us mentioned them, and they're as fusion as it gets.

 

[Yonni]

Oops! Magma is an oversight on my part. They will be added to the update, hopefully next week. Never heard of SGM but I’ll add them in.

yes the personnel on the album was what swung it for me. As soon as I saw Stanley Clarke and Lenny White I started walking to the checkout.

 

[Sid Fang]

Oops! Magma is an oversight on my part. They will be added to the update, hopefully next week. Never heard of SGM but I’ll add them in.

They were profoundly bizarre. I found out about them from an interview with Tony Levin, where he said he was awed by their ability to be so tight doing things so seemingly arrhythmic. They played places in Oakland that I used to frequent when I was visiting the Bay Area in those days, but somehow I never came across them.

 

[The Owl]

I think I going to have to take a punt and just order some Passport vinyl online. What’s the most instrumental/fusion album by them?

Anything from Infinity Machine and before is their best stuff.

 

[Yonni]

They were profoundly bizarre. I found out about them from an interview with Tony Levin, where he said he was awed by their ability to be so tight doing things so seemingly arrhythmic. They played places in Oakland that I used to frequent when I was visiting the Bay Area in those days, but somehow I never came across them.

This is going to be a long journey. There seems to be a lot of strands to fusion, some lean more towards rock and even metal, others to jazz and others to wider world music (hate that term!). I’ll have to see how I can reference all of this. I’m no expert at all, it’s a total discovery trip for me, but I’d like to pull some sort of reference guide together.

 

[jerry]

Not a bad read:

 

[Yonni]

I was looking at this earlier:

 

[Bob_Ross]

I really enjoyed that number...possibly more than any other Sleepytime Gorilla Museum tune I've heard, though I've enjoyed them all.

But there's nothing about any of their music I've heard that suggests Fusion (with an uppercase F) to me. They're certainly "fusing" an abundance of styles/genres, but I don't hear any of the Jazz that was such a huge component of the original Fusion recipe.

 

[blacktop deluxe]

 

[okcrum]

 

[StereoPlayer]

so cool! Never saw this! Thanks. Love Jan Hammer!
Fernando Saunders on bass!

 

[Jeff Scott]

 

[DJ Bebop]

 

[The Owl]

4 Magma alumni

 

[The Owl]

Live Magma

 

[DJ Bebop]

 

[StereoPlayer]

Very cool! Thanks!