2007-09-30 17:33:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Jazz
This is an interesting question and I am amazed by the scope of answers. I can't believe anyone would include "Sing Sing Sing" in a list of fusion songs!
The top fusion songs would probably include anything off Herbie Hancock's HEADHUNTERS album- especially "Watermelon Man" and "Chameleon". Anything by the Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin) especially with Billy Cobbham on drums. My favorites include anything by the Brazilian pianist Deodato who firmly fused Jazz, Rock and Classical with "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Also Sprach Zarathustra" among many others.
Chick Corea had one of the best fusion bands in Return to Forever and their fusion hit "Spain" is immortal. RTF featured perhaps the best fusion vocalist of them all- another Brazilian, Flora Purim. Her takes on "500 Miles High", "Dindi", "Butterfly Dreams", "Light as a Feather" and "O Cantador" are among the best vocal cuts ever!
Joe Zawinul came out of the Cannonball Adderley Band to form Weather Report and their recordings of "Birdland", "Black Market" and "Bass Folk Song" are among the classics of fusion. The Tony Williams Lifetime Orchestra also played fantastic fusion but didn't have any break-out hits.
Early Brecker Brothers Band efforts, especially any album by the band "Dreams" would also top the list. I especially like "Some Skunk Funk". Many of Bob James recordings would fit the bill- I especially like his "Farandole" which is tinged with classical music, but "You're As Right As Rain", among other pop-start cuts is VERY good. His composition for the TV show TAXI, "Angela" is excellent fusion as is the Bill Cosby show theme. Blood Sweat and Tears band with "Spinning Wheel" and "Color My World" and the band Chicago (also known as CTA or Chicago Transit Authority) were two of the best-known early fusion bands and many of their offerings are GREAT.
Don't forget Miles Davis with "Bitches Brew" (includes a cut named "John McLaughlin") and "On the Corner". Also look for Larry Coryell, Wayne Shorter and Stanley Turrentine, Jean-Luc Ponty and Michael White (fusion Violin), and Jan Hammer!
Many of the above can be sampled at Amazon.Com and other sites.
2007-10-01 15:35:53 · answer #1 · answered by David A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been taking note of them for a bit of over a yr now, and the article I like approximately them is that they do not move all-out at the prog/tech, rather focusing extra at the average songwriting, in order that they invent a lot more entire and relocating songs than do so much within the discipline of instrumental prog. I additionally suppose that their ultra-modern album is some distance and away a extra mature album than 'Monument'. It wasn't dangerous, however 'Carving Desert Canyons' moves me as a much more mature list on virtually all fronts. MQ1: does Animals as Leaders rely? It was once a solo task on the time. MQ2: Pelican - 'The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw'. Perhaps my favourite album ever, instrumental or now not.
2016-09-05 13:16:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birdland - Weather Report
Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman
Kentucky Roastup - City Of Angels Saxaphone Quartet
The Sentemental Way You Are - Larry Williams (is boring)
Bands: (non instrumental but still VERY good)
The Cat Empire
(try "Hello" or "Days Like These" or "The Car Song")
Reel Big Fish
(try "Sell Out" or "Good Things")
2007-10-01 01:06:09 · answer #3 · answered by midnight.wildfire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Must bow to "knightwielder" on this, He put down just about all my ideas first and much better than I could, although I don't think he mentioned RTF's "Romantic Warrior" lp/cd, one that I keep coming back to as well as most of Al DiMeola's solo work after RTF. I saw the original lineup play at the Ritz theater in Elizabeth, NJ in one of the 2 or 3 "reunion" shows RTF did in the mid 80's, as well as when The "Guitar Trio" played there (Paco DeLucia, Al DiMeola & John McLaughlin w/ Steve Morse opening for, then closing with them). Both times I was just so blown away - AMAZING!
2007-10-03 05:24:18 · answer #4 · answered by Phil D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just one for me:
"Birdland" by Weather Report.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddys were part of the swing music scare of the late 1990s, which mercifully died fast. It sure didn't swing like the masters.
2007-10-01 00:11:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out the Big Bad Voodoo Daddys
2007-09-30 17:41:22 · answer #6 · answered by Tea Jay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Steps Ahead .... search for "Beirut" on youtube..... Awesome stuff!
The 3 Mikes absolutely ROCK!
More mellow stuff includes "Trains" "Pools" " In a sentimental mood" etc.
2007-10-02 22:34:15 · answer #7 · answered by bluespeedbird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
''Hydra'' by Grover Washington.
''Think Twice'' by Donald Byrd.
2007-09-30 20:22:39 · answer #8 · answered by hubbawubbub 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋