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Recommend Me Some Jazz/Fusion

#22
JimK said:
...there's a track or two that kicks some ass.
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I love everything about that album, have done ever since it was released. Even "Are You The One?"

BTW, Pandora is great (was great) but it hasn't worked outside the US for a few years now. We have something called "Spotify" here that is similar (do you get that in the States?). Not sure about Oz and NZ.
 
#24
Coming from rock/metal, you might like these groups/artists, to start (in addition to what's already been suggested above):
  • Mike Stern
  • Dean Brown
  • Jimmy Haslip's work with Renegade Creation and Jing Chi
  • Snarky Puppy (more soul/funk/blues, but VERY cool and fresh)
  • Christian McBride's live album: Live at Tonic
  • The Bad Plus: trio that does a lot of cool covers of rock tunes
  • Joshua Redman's group "James Farm"
 
#29
Asher S said:
Coming from rock/metal, you might like these groups/artists, to start (in addition to what's already been suggested above):
  • Mike Stern
  • Dean Brown
  • Jimmy Haslip's work with Renegade Creation and Jing Chi
  • Snarky Puppy (more soul/funk/blues, but VERY cool and fresh)
  • Christian McBride's live album: Live at Tonic
  • The Bad Plus: trio that does a lot of cool covers of rock tunes
  • Joshua Redman's group "James Farm"
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All great...Jing-Chi sounds like Cream on steroids, IMO.
 
#31
Kevin Eubanks' 1984 release on the GRP label Sundance is a blazing example of "second generation fusion", music played by people who were already talented, fascile, & impressionable musicians when Mahavishnu, RTF, & Weather Report first appeared.

Also, Pat Martino's 1976 album Joyous Lake (which I believe is now available on CD under a different title) offers some fabulously telepathic collective improvisations in the context of an almost-too-textbook fusion setting. It's one of my favorite albums of the entire genre.
 
#34
Roscoe East said:
Kevin Eubanks' 1984 release on the GRP label Sundance is a blazing example of "second generation fusion", music played by people who were already talented, fascile, & impressionable musicians when Mahavishnu, RTF, & Weather Report first appeared.
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...pretty sure I have that on LP.
Also, Pat Martino's 1976 album Joyous Lake (which I believe is now available on CD under a different title) offers some fabulously telepathic collective improvisations in the context of an almost-too-textbook fusion setting. It's one of my favorite albums of the entire genre.
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That is a great '70s Fusion recording...I went on a big Martino re-visit earlier this year (read his bio)...amazing how he goes from a Trad Jazz Organ trio to a Bebop band to rocked-out Fusion...within a couple of years.
I did see Joyous Lake was recently re-issued...
Joyous Lake at www.dustygroove.com
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Must add that Tyrone Brown did a great job playing electric bass on Martino's more straightahead/Bop albums (check out "Impressions").
 
#36
Asher S said:
Coming from rock/metal, you might like these groups/artists, to start (in addition to what's already been suggested above):
  • Mike Stern
  • Dean Brown
  • Jimmy Haslip's work with Renegade Creation and Jing Chi
  • Snarky Puppy (more soul/funk/blues, but VERY cool and fresh)
  • Christian McBride's live album: Live at Tonic
  • The Bad Plus: trio that does a lot of cool covers of rock tunes
  • Joshua Redman's group "James Farm"
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Also add on Alan Holdsworth, "Blues for Tony" live album (also Jimmy Haslip)
 

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