Posted on 07/15/2018 7:47:23 PM PDT by Windflier
The masters of fusion jazz play some of their most famous songs from the 1970s, live in concert.
Chick Corea - Piano, Synthesizer Stanley Clarke - Double Bass and Bass Guitar Lenny White - Drums, Percussion Al Di Meola - Guitar
Enjoy!
He made Metheny's first record, "Bright Size Life" special.
Thanks for posting. I haven’t seen these guys since the original version of the band. I hung around after the excellent performance just so I could say hello to Chick Corea.
Chick Corea and Gary Burton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=123&v=jozITRIYLL4
Pure magic outside of space and time...
Good stuff. Thanks for posting!
My pleasure!
I like Cobhams Spectrum with one of the best guitar players ever
Tommy Bolin ...dead man walking you could see it coming but what a player....only 25 he beat the magic 27
Speaking of which I bumped into Dave Mustaine (Metallica megadeth)and his lovely wife Pam today at Whole Foods Franklin....she’s a good looking woman and he’s more or less one of us....Williamson county is refuge to so many rock peeps seeking an easier place for families
Early Tom McLaughlin corralled some great talent too like Corey and Cobham and Jan Hammer and Jean Luc Ponty
You know who else who fused a lot....Zappa....his Mothers had a line of talent too...Ponty and Lowell George and Ansley Dunbar and Terry Bozzio
Zappa’s Rats album was very early jazz rock which is synonymous with fusion jazz to my layman ears
I’m thinking of music back then....Weather areport....Cobham and McLaughlin played on Bitches Brew ....the bridge album from jazz to jazz rock
I just put Spectrum in my B&O headset.....Tommy Bolin shredding it right outta the gate......Quadrant Four..I need to get that YouTube guitarist review guy Filo of Wings of Pegasus to do Bolin...wow
Pat Methany , Flora Purim , Donato, Stanley Turrentine, Grover Jr, Maynard Ferguson , Al Dimeola and George Benson and Dixie Dregs and Spyro Gyra and the list goes on....Tom Scott and his work with Joni Mitchell
Jazz fusion made esoteric jazz more palatable to rock fans ..Steely Dan really aced it with Aja
It also brought Jazz up out of older generations and the Beats
And it sure best Disco didn’t it
I definitely like it bette now to be honest...you get old and jazz and Bach too both get better
Pat Methany....if I left him off...my bad...major guy from that era
Brian Auger.....very very early jazz rock guy....the Oblivion Express....anyone remember that ?
George Duke....course
Herbie Hancock.....another great and nice man
Spectrum is just three players really with some select add ins like Hammer on keyboards
Incredible
The Cream of jazz rock
Thanks for prompting me to put this on
I think you mean John McLaughlin, the ‘Mahavishnu’ dude. I remember critics singing his praises but I found him unlistenable.
I actually did venture beyond southern rock and the Dead and outlaw kuntry
Gary Burton is great, I only have a few of his LPs.
Saw them do a free concert at the University of Florida in about 1970, then three times since.
Really good each time.
And Pat’s & Jaco’s work with Joni Mitchell is absolutely sublime.
Mark
I listen to every era of symphonic music. Chamber music. Rock, blues. Doo Wap. Opera.
From Black Sabbath to Mozart back around to Wagner.
Jazz always sounds atonal and arrhythmic to me.
I’ve tried hundreds of times, thinking maybe there’s an “acquired taste” component.
It just leaves me cold.
I’m not a big Jazz fan either. But... A friend once invited me to join him at a live Jazz venue in Seattle. Jazz Alley I think, it’s supposed to be one of the finest venues in the World.
Great venue, food, not a bad seat in the house and world class/famous artists. I’ve now been about 4 times and really like it. The music is much better live.
Find a live venue and see how it strikes you differently.
My music taste like yours, very diversified with Heavy Metal Rock/Roll/Punk being my primary...
I've got a fourteen year old who fell madly in love with the music of the 70s when he was about ten years old. He quickly gobbled up all my old records, then branched out from there, exploring all kinds of 70s artists on YouTube.
He's now turning me on to stuff from that era that I never heard.
Same here. I thought there must be something wrong with my ears, because the music critics loved the guy. I just never got McLaughlin. I even bought one of his LPs, and after a dozen listenings, it still didn't click.
Love me some Pat Metheny. I've got one of his albums sitting in my CD carousel right now.
I’ll bet the majority of McLaughlin record sales were like that. People buying because critics praised the hell out of him, only to find that there’s no there there.
Zappa too, IMO, a guy who made a career on marginalia, tuneless weirdness, and a cult following of critics who talked themselves into believing that only they had the proper erudition to appreciate what normal people recognized as pretentious junk.
other than with Dave Brubeck I'd pretty much agree
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