I prefer to call modern jazz vs jazz fusion or jazz rock or contemporary jazz, because a lot of jazz rock albums are too commercial or sirupy, or also to demonstrative technically, but without soul or creativity.
So i invite to share the best albums in modern jazz , which are innovative, rich, creative and inspired.
From 1969: Miles Davis / in a silent way and Bitches Brew
Wow - great new thread, FR.
What a superb list of LPs.
Thank you so much for this.
You have reset my listening horizon for the next year!
Bitches Brew broke the mould.
You list some of my favourite LPs - Birds of Fire, Spectrum, Agharta, Get up with It, Dark Magus, The Inner Mounting Flame, In a Silent Way.
This was an amazing burst of musical creation - all the LPs you cite would have influenced those that came after them, and many of the musicians knew one another and played together.
Many of these LPs Iβve never heard, and a few Iβve never heard of, so these are all going on my listening list.
(Jeff Back I stopped listening to in about 1981, but Iβll check him out again to see if how it sounds nowadays.)
cheers
Jim