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I prefer it to Bitches Brew, too. I heard BB first, and probably like a lot of people, it was one of my first real intros to out music. John McLaughlin's playing on that album... oy, I have no way to even describe how I feel about it. Obviously that's just a small ingredient—the whole thing's so much more than the sum of its parts.

On a separate note/to keep the ball rolling, Don Cherry's Brown Rice is one I was just introduced to recently and have been loving.

popvulture wrote: ... Don Cherry's Brown Rice is one I was just introduced to recently and have been loving.

Yeah, that's a good one.

This isn't quite fusion either, but it's nice:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7TFRa-U1SI[/youtube]

Return to Forever, Weather Report, and especially Mahavisnu Orchestra are all amazing. My dad is a jazz drummer and a total fusion head, so I was pretty much raised on that stuff.

I think my personal favorite album in this vein is Miles Davis On the Corner. Most everything from that Davis era was like Kevin Federline level HOT FIRE.

Some of Billy Cobham's early stuff was good too. Like Spectrum, with Tommy Bolin on guitar making laser noises with an early delay pedal.

Yeah, early fusion was pretty fantastic. Seemed to quickly devolve into muzak though, unfortunately.

DhanoSuzuki wrote: Most everything from that Davis era was like Kevin Federline level HOT FIRE.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPbS8VExwDk[/youtube][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3bk8_0TYyE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmrp8OE_IkQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuKJkghC2u0[/youtube]

Odean Pope's from Philly.

Looked him up and learned that he was born in a teeny tiny town in SC called Ninety-Six.
My brother in law is also from there. So random.

That is kinda random.

Odean was in this band (not exactly fusion, but not too far off):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiuumRcbJNo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reAjAJrsOZw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tGzu_O1DkU[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vvUTlZvVpY[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc4d1YYOzOM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuGucAttps[/youtube]

Chankgeez wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vvUTlZvVpY[/youtube]

Thisssss!

Oh, you like that?

Hopefully you'll like this too:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRm96SAz8zc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olq8Oc53uCY[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSbBTvg170[/youtube]

Lots of great stuff on that channel. Can't remember if I've posted it in this thread yet.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J_m5Gum1rg[/youtube]
This is as close as I will get to fusion [I like Jazz and I LOVE free jazz but fusion..]
To me most of the poppier fusion all sounds like Village of the sun off this album.. as well as every single song steely Dan ever "wrote"

I think it helps that Zappa usually had a lot of esentially jazz musicians playing with him.

Also:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oow1nG0EzkQ[/youtube]

Chankgeez wrote:I think it helps that Zappa usually had a lot of esentially jazz musicians playing with him.

Sure but without him making them be creeps they would have all been all boring playing blues with John may all or far out exciting Jazz with blood sweat and tears