I have all of those but one.
I saw him in person in 2007 at The Bass Club Chicago.
A very unassuming guy.
You wouldn't notice him on the street.
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I saw him in person in 2007 at The Bass Club Chicago.
A very unassuming guy.
You wouldn't notice him on the street.
Nothing to add. But I did play some Weather Report vinyl yesterday. Fun thread.
I like the early stuff...Miles in the 70s, the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tony Williams Lifetime, Weather Report up to Black Market), Stanley Clarke solo (RTF never quite clicked with me).
My favorite little known fusion album is this:
My favorite little known fusion album is this:
I knew I'd forget some...a great fusion recording was in the series after Clouds About Mercury David Torn, Mark Isham, Lonely Planet with David White (and Mic Karn...Bruford)
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“Wired” is also good. Almost a continuation of Blow by Blow, but I still like BBB best. Freeway Jam!
Very cool and sadly overlooked funky fusion disc, sort of like Santana meets RTF. Great rhythm section of Dave Logeman (drums) and a then 16 year old Eric McAnn (bass).
Randy Brecker takes the first solo, they all using Mutron III which had just come out. Alphonse Muson happens to be the drummer while RTF had Lennie White...
There are a lot of fusions to choose from.
There's jazz/rock fusion, as pioneered by Miles Davis and many graduates of his band (Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Mike Stern, etc.), but also East/West fusion, beginning with Ravi Shankar and continuing through Zakir Hussein, L Shankar, and others, Afro-European fusion (Anouar Brahem, D'Gary, Tinariwen, various Rai artists), and latin/rock fusion from Santana to (arguably) Mars Volta. And of course there's the classical/jazz/rock current of Zappa and some other folks who get called "progressive", as well as people like Jan Garbarek, who collaborates with medieval vocal ensembles as well as Pakistani vocalists and Brazilian percussion.
I may self-identify as a "reformed fusion player", but I love genre cross-fertilization.
I don't even know where to put Magma, except to say that anyone following this thread who's never heard Magma should listen to Magma Live (a.k.a "Khai", I believe) at least once.
There's jazz/rock fusion, as pioneered by Miles Davis and many graduates of his band (Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Mike Stern, etc.), but also East/West fusion, beginning with Ravi Shankar and continuing through Zakir Hussein, L Shankar, and others, Afro-European fusion (Anouar Brahem, D'Gary, Tinariwen, various Rai artists), and latin/rock fusion from Santana to (arguably) Mars Volta. And of course there's the classical/jazz/rock current of Zappa and some other folks who get called "progressive", as well as people like Jan Garbarek, who collaborates with medieval vocal ensembles as well as Pakistani vocalists and Brazilian percussion.
I may self-identify as a "reformed fusion player", but I love genre cross-fertilization.
I don't even know where to put Magma, except to say that anyone following this thread who's never heard Magma should listen to Magma Live (a.k.a "Khai", I believe) at least once.
Tribal Tech with Gary Willis on fretless. Kick it up tp 1:11 [gawd!]
and if you want to go farther out there
Sonny Sharrock
Sun Ra
Last Exit
Sonny Sharrock
Sun Ra
Last Exit
