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fusion jazz recommendations

I recently stumbled onto some great music by Virgil Donati, Tribal Tech, Michael Landau, and Planet X. I am hooked on the Virgil Donati espescially! Could you guys(and gals) give me some more leads to check out? I'm always looking for good music and I'm sure there are at least a few members that could help me out.
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drrasta
224 posts
 
My .02: Miles Davis "A Tribute to Jack Johnson", John McLaughlin "Inner Mounting Flame" and more recent: Charlie Hunter/Leon Parker "Duo". Should also mention: John Scofield, Pat Martino and Al Dimeola--all electric guitarist with differing approaches to fusion. Jean-Luc Ponty--violinist was quite popular as well.
listener
36 posts
 
My suggestions follow suite with the above recommendations;

Mahavishnu Orchestra "Inner Mounting Flame", "Birds of Fire", and "Love Devotion Surrender" (Santana and McLaughlin).

Miles Davis "Bitches Brew".

Weather Report "Heavy Weather".

Herbie Hancock "HeadHunters".

Any of the first three Jean-Luc Ponty solo releases are also worth a listen.

When available, the twenty-bit remasters on CD actually do any (or all) of these recordings some justice in case you don't have a table.

Although I agree with the comment about "post-'74", you might like some Bill Bruford, Billy Cobham, and Jeff Lorber Fusion as well.

Happy listening.
larryro
19 posts
 
Excellent suggestions. I would add that Chick Corea has some worthwhile stuff, especially the late and somewhat cheesy album "Romantic Warrior" by Return to Forever (Corea, Stanley Clarke, Al DiMeola, and Lenny White, I think).
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grumpybb OP
124 posts
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I have several of the titles that have been mentioned, Weather Report, Billy Cobham, Jean Luc Ponty, Herbie, Mahavishnu, Chick Corea, etc. While I really like that stuff I would like to find some newer music. I guess that some people would call what I'm looking for progressive rock. I also have Liquid Tension Experiment, Bozzio- Levin- and Stevens, etc, that I also like, but I was looking for something that would be a middle ground or 80's and early 90's version of fusion. Keep the suggestions coming.
jarroyo
11 posts
 
I ditto all those mentioned. Add to the oldies list:

Jaco Pastorius
Spectrum (Billy Cobham)
Return to Forever (Corea & friends)

Here's a good link to others fusion info: http://allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=C299

As for modern day fusion or"acid jazz" as it's called these days, check out Ronny Jordan, Incognito and others at: http://allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=C513
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