The 70's Jazz-rock/fusion appreciation society

This was lacking, so far

Edited by Sean Trane - 23 Apr 2011 at 3:50am

70's Jazz Rock Fusion is my favorite Jazz genre. For various reasons it is the only Jazz genre that I followed.

Mahavishnu Orchestra, Al Di Meola and Stanlry Clarke are similar in certain musical ideas. 

Atavachron wrote: as cheesy and stuck in the 70s the stuff is, it's great music--  I even still like DiMeola's early stuff, dated as it is

Cheesy???

I don't know, I see what he means.

It's due in part to musical cliches.


Edited by triceratopsoil - 24 Apr 2011 at 6:51pm

js wrote: To a lot of jazz fans, fusion can have a certain excessiveness that is more similar to rock than jazz. I like early fusion, but I know a lot of my friends who were into Bop were not into it at all.

I'd tend to agree with you that I much prefer the 69 to 75 fusion than the later 70's as well...

I think that maybe is my favorite jazz sub genre too. Of course it isn't pure jazz. But it is a good kind of music.

Edited by Prog Geo - 25 Apr 2011 at 5:57am

Nice album! Weather report are good! Also, no one has mentioned Soft machine. Classic band!

I like the early fusion from 67-71, then the "classic" era from 72-74. After that, it's hit or miss (more hit than miss, until the late 70s)

but it's hard to really say, some artists/bands peaked at different times in this genre. Some didn't even start until around 72-74

From my experience, if it came out before 1979, it's almost guaranteed at least "good", and most times it's gold.


Edited by darkshade - 25 Apr 2011 at 4:15pm

This is what I like and not just the same handful of bands.  There was much more that created the genre so let's here about them also.