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List Of Jazz Fusion Recordings
A list of Jazz fusion albums: 1960s * Gary Burton - '' Duster'' (1967) * Blood, Sweat & Tears - ''Blood, Sweat & Tears'' (1968) * Miles Davis - ''In a Silent Way'' (1969) * The Tony Williams Lifetime - ''Emergency!'' (1969) * Frank Zappa - ''Hot Rats'' (1969) * Chicago - '' The Chicago Transit Authority'' (1969) 1970s * Miles Davis - ''Bitches Brew'' (1970), ''A Tribute to Jack Johnson'' (1971), ''On the Corner'' (1972), ''Get Up With It'' (1974), ''Dark Magus'' (1974), ''Agharta'' (1975), ''Pangaea'' (1975) * Dreams - ''Dreams'' (1970) * Chicago - ''Chicago'' (1970) * Nucleus - ''Elastic Rock'' (1970), '' We'll Talk About It Later'' (1971) * Larry Coryell - ''Spaces'' (1970), ''Larry Coryell at the Village Gate'' (1971) * The Tony Williams Lifetime - ''Turn It Over'' (1970) * Jimmy Smith - Root Down (1972) * Billy Cobham - ''Spectrum'' (1973) * The New Tony Williams Lifetime - '' Believe It'' (1975), '' Million Dollar Legs'' (1976) * Alphonse Mouzon - ''Mind Transplant'' (1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Magus
''Dark Magus'' is a live double album by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was recorded on March 30, 1974, at Carnegie Hall in New York City, during the electric period in the musician's career. Davis' group at the time of the concert included bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Al Foster, percussionist Mtume, saxophonist Dave Liebman, and guitarists Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas. He also used the show to audition saxophonist Azar Lawrence and guitarist Dominique Gaumont. ''Dark Magus'' was produced by Teo Macero and featured four two-part recordings with titles from the Swahili words for the numbers one through four. ''Dark Magus'' was released after Davis' 1975 retirement, upon which his label, Columbia Records, issued several albums of various outtakes. After releasing the live recordings '' Agharta'' (1975) and ''Pangaea'' (1976), Columbia decided that they did not approve of the albums, and ''Dark Magus'' was released only in Japan, in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Root Down (album)
''Root Down'' is a 1972 live jazz album by Jimmy Smith, released on the Verve label. It was recorded in Los Angeles on February 8, 1972. It includes the song "Root Down (And Get It)" which was sampled by the Beastie Boys for their song " Root Down." ''Root Down'' peaked at number 24 on the ''Billboard'' Top Jazz Album charts. Reception AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote: "...the album captures a performance Smith gave with a relatively young supporting band who were clearly influenced by modern funk and rock. They push Smith to playing low-down grooves that truly cook: 'Sagg Shootin' His Arrow' and 'Root Down (And Get It)' are among the hottest tracks he ever cut...There are times where the pace slows, but the tension never sags, and the result is one of the finest, most exciting records in Smith's catalog. If you think you know everything about Jimmy Smith, this is the album for you." Track listing # "Sagg Shootin' His Arrow" ( Jimmy Smith) – 7:09 # "For Everyon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Smith (musician)
James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1925 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician whose albums often appeared on ''Billboard'' magazine charts. He helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music. In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that America bestows upon jazz musicians. Early years There is confusion about Smith's birth year, with sources citing either 1925 or 1928. Born James Oscar Smith in Norristown, Pennsylvania, he joined his father doing a song-and-dance routine in clubs at the age of six. He began teaching himself to play the piano. When he was nine, Smith won a Philadelphia radio talent contest as a boogie-woogie pianist. After a period in the U.S. Navy, he began furthering his musical education in 1948, with a year at Royal Hamilton College of Music, then the Leo Ornstein School of Music in Philadelphia in 1949. He began exploring the Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn It Over
''Turn It Over'' is the second album by the American jazz fusion group the Tony Williams Lifetime, released in 1970 via Polydor Records. It was rereleased by Verve Records in 1997, as part of ''Spectrum: The Anthology''. Williams is again joined by guitarist John McLaughlin and organist Larry Young, along with former Cream frontman Jack Bruce. Production Jack Bruce joined the group for ''Turn It Over'', providing bass and vocals. Tony Williams was excited by the amplification he could employ during the recording of the album; his liner notes repeatedly instruct the listener to play the album at a high volume. Williams described the album as his version of the MC5's '' Kick Out the Jams''. The album contains a cover of John Coltrane's "Big Nick". Critical reception AllMusic called the album "one of the more intense pieces of early jazz-rock fusion around," writing that "in parts, it's like Jimi Hendrix's ''Band of Gypsys'' with much better chops." ''JazzTimes'' praised Larry Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Coryell At The Village Gate
''Larry Coryell at the Village Gate'' is a live album by jazz guitarist Larry Coryell that was recorded on January 21 and 22, 1971 at the Village Gate in New York City. It was released by Vanguard Records. This was the first album on which his wife Julie Coryell sang. The album included a cover version of a song by Jack Bruce John Symon Asher Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish bassist, singer-songwriter, musician and composer. He gained popularity as the primary lead vocalist and bassist of British rock band Cream. After the group disbande ... with whom Coryell toured in 1968. ''Rolling Stone'' stated the album showed Coryell with a power-trio in rock form. In his memoir, Coryell stated that Bronson and Wilkinson formed a tight rhythm-section, although it may seem an odd combination. His son Murali appeared on the album jacket.''Improvising: My Life in Music'', Larry Coryell, Hal Leonard Corp-Backbeat Books, Milwaukee, 2007, p.83 Track listing P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spaces (Larry Coryell Album)
''Spaces'' is an album by jazz guitarist Larry Coryell that was released in 1970 by Vanguard Records. Coryell is accompanied by John McLaughlin on guitar, Chick Corea on electric piano, Miroslav Vitouš on bass, and Billy Cobham on drums. The album was produced by Daniel Weiss and engineered by David Baker and Paul Berkowitz. The album is sometimes considered to have started the jazz fusion genre. The Sessions The first day was strange’, said Larry, of the sessions. “because Chick and Billy and John had just come from…sessions with Miles. They had definitely been taking some different approaches to the music at that session, because when I threw down the first piece, “Tyrone” by Larry Young, the cats did not play it straight. They were all going into outer space…Almost nothing we played that first day made the cut: it seems as if we got most of the music that went on the record on the second day. It just took a while to get comfortable with each other and the materia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist. Early life Larry Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas, United States. He never knew his biological father, a musician. He was raised by his stepfather Gene, a chemical engineer, and his mother Cora, who encouraged him to learn piano when he was four years old. In his teens he switched to guitar. After his family moved to Richland, Washington, he took lessons from a teacher who lent him albums by Les Paul, Johnny Smith, Barney Kessel, and Tal Farlow. When asked what jazz guitar albums influenced him, Coryell cited ''On View at the Five Spot Cafe'' by Kenny Burrell, ''Red Norvo with Strings'', and ''The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery''. He liked blues and pop music and tried to play jazz when he was eighteen. He said that hearing Wes Montgomery changed his life. Coryell graduated from Richland High School, where he played in local bands the Jailers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elastic Rock
''Elastic Rock'' is Nucleus' first album. Recorded in January 1970, it was a pioneering work in the emerging genre of jazz-rock fusion. Bandleader Ian Carr (later a jazz journalist and published expert on Miles Davis) was probably inspired by Davis' " going electric" in 1969, but the seminal ''Bitches Brew'' had not yet been released at the time ''Elastic Rock'' was recorded, and according to Carr, they hadn't even heard Davis' less rock-influenced 1969 electric release, ''In a Silent Way''. In July 1970 the group presented compositions from the LP at the Montreux Jazz Festival, winning the first prize. They subsequently performed both at Newport Jazz Festival and at the Village Gate jazz club. Track listing All tracks composed by Karl Jenkins; except where indicated #"1916" – 1:11 #"Elastic Rock" – 4:05 #"Striation" – 2:15 (Jeff Clyne, Chris Spedding) #"Taranaki" – 1:39 ( Brian Smith) #"Twisted Track" – 5:17 (Chris Spedding) #"Crude Blues, Part I" – 0:54 (Karl Jen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucleus (band)
Nucleus were a British jazz-fusion band, which continued in different forms from 1969 to 1989. In 1970, the band won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released the album ''Elastic Rock'', and performed both at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club. The band was established by Ian Carr, who had been in the Rendell–Carr Quintet during the middle and late 1960s. Their debut album, ''Elastic Rock'', and the next two collections, ''We'll Talk About It Later'' (1970) and ''Solar Plexus'' (1971), were all released on Vertigo Records, and music journalist Colin Larkin noted were "vital in any comprehensive rock or jazz collection". In August 2005, a reincarnation of Nucleus with old and new members performed at Cargo in London. This was followed on 30 March 2007 by a Nucleus Revisited concert at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club as part of a series of concerts to mark the tenth anniversary of ''Jazzwise'' magazine. Nucleus Revisited included Geoff Castle, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago (album)
''Chicago'' (retroactively known as ''Chicago II'') is the second studio album by Chicago-based American rock band Chicago. Like their debut album, ''Chicago Transit Authority'', this was a double album. It was their first album under the name Chicago (the band's prior name, Chicago Transit Authority, was changed due to a threatened lawsuit from the actual mass-transit operator bearing the same name) and the first to use the now ubiquitous cursive Chicago logo on the cover. Released in January 1970 on Columbia Records, ''Chicago'' was commercially successful. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in April of the same year of its release, and certified platinum in 1991. It reached No. 4 on the album charts in the United States and No. 6 on the album charts in the UK, and produced three top ten singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album received three Grammy Award nominations - for Album of the Year, Contemporary Vocal Group, and Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
