Your 30 best jazz fusion albums

Ok, this once, without too much thinking and in alphabetical order:

Brecker Brothers - Heavy Metal Bebop
Cesar Mariano & Cia - São Paulo Brasil
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay & First Light
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters & Flood & Mr Hands
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius & Jaco
Lee Ritenour - Friendship
Marcos Resende & Index - Marcos Resende & Index
Mike Stern - Upside Downside
Pat Metheny - Offramp
Steps - Smokin in the pit
Tribal Tech - Dr. Hee
Weather Report - Heavy Weather

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Thanks, I will discover now Tribal Tech, the Brecker Brothers and Steps . :+1:

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Not what I would go for on a Sunday morning, but have fun! :sunglasses:

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Steps?
The Steps?

Er…jazz fusion?

I must be confusing two different bands…

Correct. Steps Ahead was first called Steps for some three years (including with this live album), after which they learned about another band with that name, thus changing it to Steps Ahead.

Michael Brecker (tenor sax), Steve Gadd (drums), Eddie Gomez (bass), Don Grolnick (piano), Mike Mainieri (vibraphone), and special guest Kazumi Watanabe (guitar).

Thank you @RexManning

I did wonder… :laughing:

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Posted this yesterday in the listening thread.

Steps Ahead N.Y.C. / 1989 Capital / US CD / CDP591354

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Great. I think I have a dvd of their Live in Tokyo in the basement somewhere, they were on fire there. Not in my basement…Tokyo… :sunglasses:

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I discovered recently two albums which may please you, specially Tony Esposito / Tony Esposito, and JD73’electric trio/ Pyramid.
I liked the Steps Ahead you recommended.

In no particular order, as they come to mind:

Soft Machine Bundles
Bruford Feels Good to Me
Nucleus Roots
Brecker Bros Heavy Metal Bebop
McLaughlin Electric Guitarist
Mike Stern Neesh
Billy Cobham Spectrum
Chick Corea Elektrik Band
John Scofield Pick Hits Live
Petite Blonde Petite Blonde
Steve Coleman Def Trance Beat
Frank Zappa Hot Rats
Hiromi Beyond Standard
Philip Catherine Babel
Larry Coryell Introducing the 11th House
Steve Khan Patchwork
Miles Davis tribute to Jack Johnson
Grover Washington Live at the Bijou
Snarky Puppy Family Dinner
Mahavishnu Orchestra Inner Mountain Flame
Joe Zawinul 75th
Gong Gazeuse
Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue
Earthworks Footloose and Fancy Free
Jeff Beck Blow by Blow
Joni Mitchell Mingus
Jaco Pastorius Live at the Aurex Jazz Festival
Daryl Way’s Wolf Night Music
Barbara Thopmson’s Paraphenelia Wild Tales
Rolf Kuhn Symphonic Swampfire
Jack Bruce Harmony Row
Colosseum The Valentine Suite

For many of the above, I could have picked different titles, but that’s what came - I tried to limit 1 title per group / person (though obviously some sneak in more than once)

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I have to investigate some I didn’t knew, like Barbara Thomson, Earthworks, and Petite Blonde.

Petite blonde, is it that ?

Yes, correct

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One of the CD’s I didn’t throw out. Dennis Chambers in top form.

I recently bought this one of Bill’s website. Great album. Don’t do as I do though, try to find the CD. My money went to him directly (good), the quality is mp3 (bad) :slight_smile:

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You should also get Let the Juice Loose. It’s the same gig, with, arguably, the better stuff on Vol 1 (Let the Juice Loose)

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Got it. Didn’t know about the other one since a couple of months ago. Strangely missed that back then.

Yes, I tagged him with Sax in his last name for obvious reasons :sunglasses:

Does Chick Corea’s Light As A Feather qualify?
Jazz/Latin fusion (as opposed to Jazz/Rock). One of my all- time fave albums. Beautiful. Flora Purim just shines on it.

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I prefer personally Bill Evans , sax, with Miles Davis. On « We want Miles « 1981 live album, Bill Evans is wonderful.

Wonderful album, but I wouldn’t consider it fusion (as in jazz-rock)