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weird i was just playing both unity and perception last night. those are some good records. i have actually been getting more into fusion lately. the kind i hate is larry coryell electric guitar solo action. the kind i like is fender rhodes, a little horn action. just picked up tarika blue second album and it's pretty nice, fusion wise. no beats or anything. just picked up another one called spirit free plays starship. it's great fusion with fender rhodes. private press i guess reminds me of john klemmer's cadet work (don't hate on early klemmer!)
I heard Weather Report Live in Tokyo yesterday, a little too free for my tastes, they really aired it out on there. I heard Herbie's got some killer Japan only live LPs.
Word to Bayete, recently heard that for the first time and shit is lovely.
And all that Euro stuff is fusion in my book, still trying to track down Placebo!
One of my personal fusion grails is Michael Sardaby - Gail. Only heard a few clips, but it was definitely
i have actually been getting more into fusion lately. the kind i hate is larry coryell electric guitar solo action. the kind i like is fender rhodes, a little horn action. just picked up tarika blue second album and it's pretty nice, fusion wise. no beats or anything. just picked up another one called spirit free plays starship. it's great fusion with fender rhodes. private press i guess reminds me of john klemmer's cadet work (don't hate on early klemmer!)
I can't stand coryell and don't like weather report. Too pre-smooov (b) jazz, it takes the least desirable ingredients from rock and jazz. I like mine a little edgier, darker, or creative. So yes to late 60s / early 70s material by tony williams, miles davis, herbie hancock, norman williams, steve reid, lloyd mcneill, etc.
That spirit free is really nice. I paid quite a bit for mine and felt a little foolish.
One big reason: chaos. You know how it is, it's all mellow and obviously the guys are getting technical, you can smell the bongwater. Than Stanley Clarke comes in and it's a bit of boom-dweedle-dweedle-badada-badada- badada- badada- badada-badada-badada- badada- badada-badada-badada-badada-badada- badada- badada-
Let's talk more James Mason-ish fusion sounding soul music. Jinx lent me this 7" cover version of "You are my Starship" by a group outta DC called Aggression and its , arps and rhodes abound.
Fusion started out with Miles Davis, start 70??s raw as fuck, but the reason peeps hate on it is because it ended up (late 70's early 80's) sounding crazy cheese waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
1969. Mean and bad(d) as all fuck. Five very pointy stars. I like Vol. 2 a little better.
soul on ice- next time you see sweetnighter in a dollar bin pick it up. dope ass common lp.
real awesome real dirty, sounds like the oldest fusion record ever, 125th Street Congress sounds like theyre drumming on garbage cans, Non-Stop Home starts out with the illest drum keyboard wahwah madness, then changes into James Brown style bassline...
I just gotta parrot this shit here... I love Weather Report, (wheres the 'I celebrate their entire catalogue' graemlin already?!) and Sweetnighter is defnitely dope as fuck.
Mysterious Traveler, Black Market, Heavy Weather... I like most of the shit I've heard... except the really late stuff.
And, not sure if you people would consider it fusion... but Eddie Harris' "I Need Some Money" sounds like fusion to me.
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also check his feel album on mps.
that's my favourite album by him.
as long as it doesn't get too frantic, i can definitely get down with fusion.
aren't placebo and most of those european jazz groups considered fusion?
weird i was just playing both unity and perception last night. those are some good records. i have actually been getting more into fusion lately. the kind i hate is larry coryell electric guitar solo action. the kind i like is fender rhodes, a little horn action.
just picked up tarika blue second album and it's pretty nice, fusion wise. no beats or anything.
just picked up another one called spirit free plays starship. it's great fusion with fender rhodes. private press i guess reminds me of john klemmer's cadet work (don't hate on early klemmer!)
is that john kerry ?
Word to Bayete, recently heard that for the first time and shit is lovely.
And all that Euro stuff is fusion in my book, still trying to track down Placebo!
One of my personal fusion grails is Michael Sardaby - Gail. Only heard a few clips, but it was definitely
Michel Sardaby's Gail LP is more a jazz than a fusion album, it has one real nice jazzfunk cut, Welcome New Warmth.
I can't stand coryell and don't like weather report. Too pre-smooov (b) jazz, it takes the least desirable ingredients from rock and jazz. I like mine a little edgier, darker, or creative. So yes to late 60s / early 70s material by tony williams, miles davis, herbie hancock, norman williams, steve reid, lloyd mcneill, etc.
That spirit free is really nice. I paid quite a bit for mine and felt a little foolish.
Fusion A HREF="http://sulley.dm.ucf.edu/~aschrock/temp/images/tbreak.mp3">got braeks?
mine as well, but I need to hear this:
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And of course, here comes special guest Jan Hammer!
I like it.
That thing that thing that thiiiiiiiing
what Spirit Free ?
mine as well, but I need to hear this:
ultra dope mps release !
Does this count as fusion? Dope record imo.
It's called "plays starship". Funky vocal-less fusion from las vegas. Their address was right on the strip next to the elvis wedding chapel.
Dante wrote it up for wax poetics a while back.....
1969. Mean and bad(d) as all fuck. Five very pointy stars. I like Vol. 2 a little better.
thats a mean cover, to really feel fusion Im pretty sure I need this and the Plays Starship record......(and perhaps a couple of other joints)
I just gotta parrot this shit here... I love Weather Report, (wheres the 'I celebrate their entire catalogue' graemlin already?!) and Sweetnighter is defnitely dope as fuck.
Mysterious Traveler, Black Market, Heavy Weather... I like most of the shit I've heard... except the really late stuff.
And, not sure if you people would consider it fusion... but Eddie Harris' "I Need Some Money" sounds like fusion to me.
Peace...
FNM