Post 70's Jazz Rock Fusion

Ok, thanks for the info. I think a few available samples from youtube can't hurt though. The rest you'll have to find with vinyl shops or something.

Even though my idea was to force him in prog archives under jazz rock/fusion, someone was faster and added him here without any questions asked, it might get some more appreciation here.

Here is some 80's fusion from an artist that has been added recently, if anyone is interested in balkan jazz related music:

By the way, what's this forum's policy on distributing mp3's and such, especially if the said music is pretty hard to obtain? Just asking if anyone is interested in this guy they can message me here.

"e" is a great album

My Last.fm

Here's a new album of music to categorise: the eponymous one released very recently by Levin, Torn & White? Jazz fusion or avant heavy rock or what?

Edited by Dick Heath - 18 Oct 2011 at 9:18am

Vertú

Stanley Clarke - Bass
Lenny White - Drums
Karen Briggs - Violin
Richie Kotzen - Guitar
Rachel Z - Keyboards

80s:
Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Wichita Falls So Falls Wichita Falls
Yellowjackets - Four Corners
Spyro Gyra - Access All Areas

90s:
Tortoise - TNT
Supersilent - 4
Phantom City - Site Anubis

2000s
David Torn - Prezens
Wibutee - Eight Domestic Challenges
Supersilent - 6

Metheny Group, Pat    Offramp 1982 - Pat's Group albums seemed to stagnate shortly after this one.
Torn, David    Cloud About Mercury 1986 - Torn/Levin/Bruford/Isham, say no more.
Rypdal, Terje    Singles Collection, The 1988 - not a compilation album, a joke title. One of Rypdal's most rocky jazz JRF albums.

Fleck, Bela & the Flecktones    Flight of the Cosmic Hippo    1991 - and now for something completely different, JFR outside the box.
Muffins, The    Open City    1994 - more JFR outside the box.
Clarke DiMeola Ponty    Rite of Strings, The 1995 all acoustic, still rocks.

Bruford Levin Upper Extremities    Blue Nights    2000 - Torn/Levin/Bruford et al, say no more.
Medeski Martin and Wood    End of the World Party (just in case)    2004 - had to put one MMW in there. This is my favorite of the two I have.
Jonas Hellborg    Art Metal    2007 - jazz fusion with rock of a more metallic nature.

Edited by Slartibartfast - 16 Jul 2011 at 10:14am

Most of the international big names were mentioned already, so I'll nominate some contemporary French fusion: One Shot, Morglbl and Guillaume Perret (all active this last decade).

Also this, from Romania:

Good fusion is back, which reminds me: Iron Kim Style

After dabbling his toes in the mighty jazz sea with Harbor Lights and Hot House (i.e. albums that reached this side of the Atlantic and got a tad of publicity to provide us with awareness, perhaps because of the guest appearances of Metheny, Shorter and whoops, Phil Collins) , Bruce Hornsby dived in with Camping Meeting in 2007:

(look at the rhythm section).

This is Bruce Hornsby (sans vocals) one moment sounding as familiar and laid back as ever in what I call country rock-jazz style, and then being pushed by the company he's keeping into some real jazz piano. DeJohnette and McBride sound like they are having fun - the former indulging in some percussion effects we may have expect from EST's drummer. What surprised me was the lack of fanfares - I think I spotted only one bit of publicity on an American jazz fusion site and then was surprised to find Amazon Uk importing it in pretty cheaply; but nothing else surfaced over here. This was one of my favs for 2008 - the year when I first heard it. I'm left asking for more. Check this out.

Edited by Dick Heath - 18 Oct 2011 at 9:09am