Favorite Jazz /Jazz Fusion

[Scud49]

What are some of your favorites in this area? I have a number of them, including this gem:

 

[Waquoit]

I think this is my favorite fusion song

 

[Bama fan]

I am not sure if this fits with the thread, but i think it does. Anyway, I love this lady and her music.

 

[Bigboote]

Wow, I'll try to keep myself to a few now and then. The first thing that came to mind is not as jazzy or rocky as most of the stuff by Mahavishnu, but it's my favorite piece of theirs:

 

[Bigboote]

I was introduced to Brand X by a friend who loved Genesis. Phil Collins drummed for BX on several of their albums.

 

[Bigboote]

I heard this piece on the radio around the time the album came out, and it changed my views on Chick Core:

 

[Bigboote]

One more and I'll shut up for today. It was close between this one and "Little house I used to live in" from Burnt Weeny Sandwich.

 

[Scud49]

Thanks everyone - I certainly have some listening to do later tonight with all your selections.

This one amazed me back in the 70's, and it still does today:

 

[Bigboote]

Thanks everyone - I certainly have some listening to do later tonight with all your selections. . .

What a tragedy Tommy Bolin's untimely death was. He was 25, had recorded with the James Gang and Deep Purple and must have been playing and recording all the time given his posthumous catalogue. Tragic right up there with Duane Allman, and since this IS a jazz-fusion thread, Jaco Pastorius.

I hadn't heard this, it's beautiful.

 

[Frodo]

Love jazz...fusion not so much, but here’s a couple of my favorites. Oscar Peterson to start...

 

[Frodo]

Love jazz...fusion not so much, but here’s a couple of my favorites. The incomparable Bill Evans...

 

[Frodo]

Another Evans

 

[Frodo]

One more from a group of kids Sant Andrew Jazz Band...

 

[Frodo]

This one is interesting because it’ a lost recording of Evans working on a new tune in his New York apartment. Evans gave the tape to his bass player who tossed it in a drawer until years later. After listening to it he told his wife, Eliane Elias, about it. She did and finished it, adding lyrics...

 

[Scud49]

This one always rocks my socks off - Deodato at the Mississippi River Festival:

 

[Scud49]

Chick Corea and Return to Forever with Flora Purim on the vocals - great late night stuff......

 

[Bama fan]

 

[Kaizen]

A very very old song.

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Bama fan]

 

[Kaizen]

My favorite one.

 

[Bigboote]

Why on earth would Crimson have three drummers -- three trap sets right at the front of the stage? I mean, they're not Santana, and maybe it would take two drummers to replace Bruford, but I really don't get it. They made plenty of noise as a quartet. I do like the addition/return of Mel Collins, but I think three drummers is a bit much.

 

[Bama fan]

My favorite one.

Great song and surely one of my favorites too. I usually prefer songs with vocals, but they would just get in the way of this relentless beat. Great choice , my friend!

 

[CL82]

Feel like I'm posting her videos a lot lately but here is my jazz entry:

The video is a little lame, but it is a great song.

 

[CL82]

For Fusion I'm going with

 

[Scud49]

Herbie Hancock - such, mellow, classic jazz:

 

[Scud49]

Weather Report - Black Market, IIRC this was the jazz album of the year back in '76:

 

[Scud49]

Joni , Pat Metheny, and the late great, Jaco Pastorius doing "Coyote" live from the Shadows and Light Tour back in 1979:

 

[Alydar]

Pat Metheny