Thank you Andy for doing these videos. It’s amazing how similar our musical tastes can be. As I watch your videos I add the albums I haven’t heard to my music library and keep my eyes peeled for the vinyl versions. You’re doing music fans a great service sir!
Of course Szobel - which ever many thanks to you Andy- having turned us on to this. And holy wholly smoke that Hermann has resurfaced. We know you’re on top of this development!
I enjoyed this Andy, thanks. It's not my cup of tea (at least, not currently, you might wear me down) but I always like listening to things I haven't heard before and you certainly bring that to the table. The format and level of informative content is excellent, looking forward to seeing what you do with Metal in the next few days.
This is a fave - brilliant Edwards vid .. it’s Friday night and about to dip into the recommends !! Dancing about already with a drink .. awesome stuff
I'm 60 and ran out of stuff to listen to a long time ago. I also have no life and therefore have lots of time on my hands. I will write down all these albums and listen to each and every one. Hopefully I can pull a few nuggest out of the pile. Thanks, Andy. P.S. Andy....perhaps on these "You need to listen to this stuff" videos, you could post a list in the comments section of the albums/artists you discussed.
This is what it is all about - opening us up to new music! Thank you! The list is... 10 Roland Vazquez - Urban Ensemble 9 Rahmann - Rahmann 8 Il Baricentro - Sconcerto 7 Christy Doran - Fredy Studer - Stephan Wittner - Red Twist & Tuned Arrow 6 Steve Grossman - Some Shapes to Come 5 Barry Miles - White Heat 4 Hermann Szobel - Szobel 3 John Serry, Jr. - Jazziz 2 Julian Priester - Love, Love 1 Eddie Henderson - Realization
I thought I knew the genre decently well and I have to admit not only do I not own any of these, I've only heard of Steve Grossman and Eddie Henderson.
Love an old-school Andy jazz rock video! I'm visiting family for the holidays who have not previously been subjected to you but were transfixed by the retelling of the Szobel story. Excited to check the rest of these albums out!
OMG, Andy! I haven't heard of these records, except for Szobel. I just finished listening to Barry Miles and what an album! As a Tony Williams, RTF, Weather Report, Brand X, etc. fan, I now have new sonic textures to explore. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Saw Priester a lot when I lived in Seattle. Julian taught at Cornish School of the Arts and gigged frequently. Often with Hadley Caliman, another local. Another entry point is Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band which Andy mentioned. The first record “Mwandishi’ is fantastic. Minor point. The first Return to Forever record was ‘Return to Forever’ on ECM with Chick on Fender Rhodes, Stanley Clarke bass, Airto, drums/percussion, Flora Purim vocals, and the criminally underrated Joe Farrell on tenor/flute. Fantastic. Pre synthesizers. Pre electric guitar. The music holds up wonderfully. Saw the electric version a couple of times. Once with Earl Klugh on guitar, once with DiMeola and Chick heavily into his electronics. Meh. Lots of notes.
Thanks Andy. I always look forward to these type of videos so I can add your recommendations to my collection. I have already added the albums of Eddie Henderson, Rahmann, Urban Ensemble and Herman Szobel because of your video "10 Forgotten Jazz Rock Classics". Looking forward to adding the rest of this list.
Great video. I actually knew most of these though not always intimately, and this made me want to revisit many of them. Plenty of great stuff in Barry Miles' albums (drummer Terry Silverlight is actually his brother). Incredible news re: Szobel, who knows, maybe a future interview here, or even new music ? The guitarist/leader of Rahmann, known latterly as Mad Sheer Khan, sadly passed away not too long ago. I caught him live doing sort of Hendrix/Indian fusion, very different to Rahmann but still interesting.
Amazing, Andy, thanks! I don't think I'd ever heard 'Red Twist & Tuned Arrow' before but I absolutely love this! It's so freaking odd and exciting. Incidentally, I'm sure you already know this, but that title is an anagram of their three surnames, which is very cool. I will have to try and find this record. I really do like Jan Hammer's playing with Steve Grossman; it's like 'Pocket Hammer'. (I'll wait for the peels of laughter to die down, thanks.) Barry Miles is also a freaking giant. Anyway, I love this entire list. Cheers!
Holy Smoke. This is great stuff. That Julian Priester / Pepo Mtoto is a must get! The Eddie Henderson Realization I’m very familiar with, currently don’t own but I’ve got other works with him.
Every now and again there's a resource, whereby I pick up (or rediscover something I might have forgotten; like Bill Connors!) music that I just can't let go of; that is, or has been, treasured. Your channel is one of those resources. Thanks for presenting these titles. I've already gone out and ordered some of them for my library.
Have a few you listed . John Serry , Eddie Henderson and Barry Miles . One that sneaks under the radar and is missed is LP "Reveal the Fantastic" by LIght Years an early Jazz / fusion album l heard on CD that was reissued on limited edition vinyl which l managed to pick up . Well worth a listen Andy . Another album and a personal favourite is "The Garden of Love Light" the debut album by Narada Michael Walden. Great Jazz fusion with guests like Jeff Beck and Carlos Santana . Only just discovered your channel and have subscribed .
I enjoyed every single one of those Andy, thank you, and yes, id never heard of any. I love jazz rock fusion, however the hoke on my knowledge is deep and wide. Your channel has already goven me many pointers thay ive started following up, this has given me more, kerp it up, i personally enjoy videos like this more than top ten things i hate, i learn something form these videos 👍👍
Great list! My collection from that period is definitely more Zuehl oriented, but I have the John Serry album. Also, Edition Speciale would be another honorable mention. Your run down was a welcome distraction from current events. Thank you
Mas que Nada by Brazil 66, when I heard that song on the radio I became obsessed with samba /bossa nova music. Played that song over and over and I still find it to be the most power packed two minutes of Joy on record. I guess that would be a different topic, jazz fusion that people know but don’t think of as jazz fusion. Always a great video from Andy and looking forward to this one.
Love Sergio and company. Still get regular airplay from me. Yeah, a fusion, but of Brit pop, jazz, and samba/bossa. It was because of Brazil 66 that I discovered Italian multi-talent Catrina Valente. There is a good video of her introducing Brasil 66 to Italian TV, (Welcome Catrina) with a cover of Edu Lobo's "Upa Neguinho" ... and another good TH-cam is a delightful cover of "One Note Samba" with Dean Martin. Still listening to Andy here, but will be a bit disappointed if he doesn't mention the Brazilian fusion group "Azymuth". I live in Japan, and about 40 years ago, a Japanese radio station (J-Wave) opened their late night jazz program with the first few seconds of Azymuth's "Over the Horizon". Good memories.
I backed up a high school jazz choir on drums a few years back and Mas gue Nada was one of the songs. I couldn't get that tune out of my head for a month. Great, great song.
Very interesting and education video. It has exposed me to music I wouldn't normally pay much attention to. A bit challenging, but that's a good thing, makes me try to find my own way into in. Cheers!
thanks for this video Andy which i really enjoyed. when you bet we don't own these albums i was intrigued because i got a collection of some 3000 jazz albums, mostly fusion, jazz rock and jazz funk/soul jazz and smooth jazz.. i only got 2 of these 10, namely Szobel (great!) and John Serry Jazziz (also got his Exhibition Album). i was actually only this afternoon listening to Eddie Henderson's 'runnin to your love' album which i think came out in the eighties. i shall check all the other ones out, you bet!
Great video, the "Red Twist Tuned Arrow" is especially intriguing as this might be the most undeservedly obscure LP on the list and had never come across this one in my 40+ years of collecting. Speaking of "Jazziz", have you considered doing an interview with Mike Fagien, the magazines founder. I worked with him in the 1980's, in the magazine's infancy/early days. He has a wealth of knowledge regarding exactly this video's topic. It would be an interesting conversation to hear between the two of you, for us Fusion heads anyway.
In 2002, a UK label called Soul Brother put out a CD with both of Eddie Henderson's killer Capricorn albums - Realization & Inside Out. The latter has both Billy Hart and Eric Gravatt on drums. Btw, to this day, Eddie Henderson is a practicing psychiatrist in NYC. I guess you can call playing trumpet his side gig. LOL
p.s. you put a smile on my face - the one with the old man on the boat!! Almost an honorable mention of a fabulous and overlooked Herbie Hancock Lp from those early days 🙏🏼
Thanks Andy I’d like to do a deep dive into some of those great fusion albums you talking about and I’m so happy to hear that you really don’t hate Bruce Springsteen. You’re merely indifferent to him lol! Also, in one of my very last punitive attempts at ‘my own brusheswith the greats,, ‘thanks for giving a mini shout out to spirogyra as I’ve said before back in the 80s I wrote a few songs with their terrific guitarist Julio Fernandez. We were both songwriters in the Lou Stallman songwriting office in the 80s and 90s and Julio took off I think for Spiro in about 1986, perhaps? and he’s never looked back. Yeah I still communicate with him. OK I don’t have too many more brushes with greatsin the music industry to mention that I know so I’ll leave it at that. lol.Thanks for a great show and again happy new year.!
Though not a musician (professional, amateur, or otherwise), I've been a jazz/rock fusion fan since my teens (for about 50 years) and of course still am. However, most of these artists/albums you cite I hadn't heard of and of course I didn't have albums, CDs, or mp3s of their music. Exceptions being Steve Grossman, Eddie Henderson, and Julian Priester albums that you've named, which I've acquired in the last 4 or 5 years in mp3 form. I was actually able to find the other seven on mp3 just now and have promptly downloaded. I ran into your TH-cam channel by accident--yes, was drawn in by your video about albums that critics love but that you called "crap" and I have to say I agreed with most but not all of your assessments. But....when finding out that you are a fusion and prog rock fan AND a professional drummer to boot, I literally had to subscribe. Although it may take some time for me to get used to the British accent (yeah, born and raised in the USA...just like Bruce Springsteen!!! 🙂), even when I disagree with your opinion on an album--I find you thoroughly entertaining and witty. Count me a fan!!
Thanks for that, Andy. There were a number of obscure gems on the list that I'd not heard of, much less heard, and that I'll be trying to get ahold of. A bit of a curiosity regarding the list is that for some reason the further you counted down (in other words the higher the albums on the list), the less interesting they sounded. Don't get me wrong, the top couple of album extracts were good, but I didn't enjoy them as much as I did numbers 10 and 9. This inverse relation of what I liked versus their standing in the ranking continued pretty consistently throughout the video. Granted, the snippets were all brief, so it may have just been an odd bit of dumb luck, as opposed to anything else. Anyway, keep this interesting kind of content coming!
I just find your channel. Where have you been all these years. You're crazy and i like it. Stay like that you're doing pretty well. In one of your video you talk about cabaret voltaire and joy division and it remember me Bauhaus with too much flange in there song and the crazy band the crass, the exploited, D.R.I. Keep going we love you from Montreal, Canada 💙
In the broadest sense, Brass Rock by HEAVEN (1971) is also JazzRock. btw "Eye Of A Needle" by Ten Wheel Drive with their fantastic singer Genya Ravan is an amazing JazzRock track (Album "Construction", 1969) btw 2 Check Memory Serves by Material (1981) btw 3 Illusion by Isotope (1975)
Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack De Johnette. Contains a re-recording of “Will.” John Surman, “Upon Reflection.” Andy might want to do a “Ten Best Obscure ECM Albums.” These will be on the list. Charlie Hunter, “Friends Seen and Unseen.” For those who haven’t caught up with him Hunter’s version of fusion guitar sounds like Lightning Sam Hopkins and Professor Longhair doing a tribute to Ornette Coleman.
Oh man! I do not have any one of these albums in my extensive collection, I never heard any of these let alone heard of them. Great stuff! I will now check out these albums.
I stumbled across "jazz rock" courtesy of Tom Scott who electrified his jazz combo to form "The L.A. Express" in the early 1970s. This band seemed equally at ease supporting the likes of Joni Mitchell and George Harrison, or playing original, instrumental compositions of their own. Tom's chioce of Max Bennett and John Guerin as the rhythm section captured the "jazz/rock" feel perfectly for me at that moment in time.
The soloing on the Barry Miles track (starting around 24:53) is all Pat Martino. BTW, a few months before recording Joyous Lake in 1976, Martino recorded Starbright, which was also released before Joyous Lake and I guess can be called his first fusion album. I saw him perform stuff from Starbright, along with earlier material like "The Great Stream," in June 1976 at the Cellar Door, the legendary (and long since defunct) club in Washington, D.C. Starbright and Joyous Lake were re-released together sometime in the early 2000s.
Huge Italian prog and fusion fan here🤘🏻 Whilst Italy in the 70s was known for prog, it also produced some great jazz rock. Nova is the best known of these fusion bands but there are others such as Agora as mentioned here by Nils, but also Etna and my favourite, although they transcend genres, the titanic Area🔥
Don't know what to do with the fact that jazz often just sounds noisy to me on record, but when I've experienced it live, it has a very different and more pleasing effect. In the 70s, I hitchhiked (yeah, I know, but you could actually do that then with relative safety} from northern NY to Toronto with my BFF because you could literally drift from one great jazz club to another and they were all open all night. We accepted a few free drinks and pigged out on happy hour treats, didn't sleep a wink and were solidly entertained for at least 48 hours, then hitched back to NY, and I'd figured out if I really want to see jazz done well, I need to see the process in front of my face.
It's interesting how the country has become so much tamer in the last few decades in some ways. It would be hard to find one all-night jazz club anywhere in the county now, or any kind of all-night club outside of a few big cities. Everyone goes home early and just hangs out at home.
Oh excellent....got most of them lined up to listen too!!! I still don't think you have mentioned VIMANA by NOVA. One of my all time favourites, featuring guests Narada, Zakir Hussain and most of Brand X It is incredible, has some great vocals so some might see it as prog, but it never gets mentioned in either categories.....the guitar playing is obviously inspired by Johnny Mac and awesome.....and of course the rhythm section is Narada with Percy Jones......total classic!!!
Ah when was this album released? I photographed Brand X in 1978 for their Masques cover and talking to Percy Jones he said Johny McLaughlin had asked him to play in his band but Percy declined. I was surprised (that he declined) but clearly he was happy where he was. I am very excited to hear Nova now an album I missed and yes where are you on this album Andy? Great list though..
Love all the Nova albums but Vimana is for sure the best🤘🏻 Corrado toured Japan a few years ago and released a dvd featuring his modern take on many of the Vimana classics. Love Brand X too🙏
There’s probably 100 more albums from the 70s, that could be in this list. I grew up in Germany and in the 60s it was all british rock music. In the 70s rock and jazz-rock from the US took over and there were also incredible music scenes in Germany, France, Scandinavia, Italy and other countries. There was more innovation in music in 1 week than in the last 10 years. It was hard to keep up with everything new coming out. Thanks for your great work! Very inspiring!
Absolutely Great Video, Andy. Thanks for all you do. You Rock ! Curious if you have checked out Sonny Sharrock -- Live in New York ? It is interesting, and he burns at times, but I find it more accessible than some of his earlier free jazz. Just by luck, I picked up his producer at the time from the Airport in D.C. His name is Michael Knuth, he had worked with Bill Laswell. (I was helping with a music showcase in D.C. at the time). So as I'm driving Michael to his hotel, he pops a cassette of Sonny Sharrock. I found it killer. Wish I still had that tape. Just curious if you have listened to it?
I really enjoyed this video Andy. I know very little about Jazz Rock fusion but I have been listening to Prog for over 50 years which must be at least adjacent? Some of this stuff sounds fantastic and quite proggy, it reminds me of bands like Colleseum II and artists like Patrick Moraz. I will explore more, thank you!
Ooh.. A good video! Love that Rahman album, I have that..have you got the Didier Lockwood album with Holdsworth? Wish I could find a good quality copy of it.
Thanks for the recommendations. I still have a copy of Rahmann, which I bought on a whim sometime in the late 70s. And had Priester’s when I was an ECM junkie. But I would definitely have included Polish jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert’s last album Passion before his untimely death from cancer with DeJonnette, Scofield, Gomez, Beirach and Vasconcellos. Fantastic!! Seifert is a forgotten genius
I've got the 'Red Twist & Tuned Arrow' album on vinyl, bought from the much missed Selectadisc in Nottingham back in the day. It is indeed a fine album, one of the rockiest things ever on ECM and an absolute groove. I bought it as it included Fredy Studer and Christy Doran from the great Swiss Weather-Report-without-keyboards band OM who'd made four excellent LPs for ECM's JAPO offshoot in the mid-late 70s, and who I loved (and still do). Those two dudes also appear on the catchily titled 'Musik Fur Zwei Kontrabasse, Elekrische Gitarre Und Schlagzeug' (ECM 1436) which ECM's website shows as still available, on vinyl anyway. If you don't already know it I think you'll like it, Andy.
I was skeptical as first but you taught me something. Concerning Barry Miles, I’ve always suspected Chick Corea developed his synth pitch bending style from listening to Barry Miles as I believe Barry used a Moog before Chick and their styles are similar. When Jan’s pitch bending hit the scene he set a standard that exists today. These things interest me because I’m a keyboard player too. Thanks
Great list Andy. I've got 4 of these- Barry Miles, Steve Grossman, Julian Priester, and Eddie Henderson. Btw, I also love Julian's follow up on ECM- Polarization. And Eddie Henderson's- Inside Out, Sunburst, and Heritage. All in the vein of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi and Headhunters bands.
Yeah I actually prefer Polarization... .. heard it on Jazz FM in the UK about 30 years ago and it was on my cassette player for a good decade until MP3s on the internet became commonplace..
Great video! Always like finding new stuff even though playing "Professor Andy Bingo" I knew eight of them... I totally agree about #1 and #2.... I'd recommend Bayete's LPs on Prestige, Hadley Caliman's "Iapetus" which are very worthwhile.... also Pop Workshop Vol 1 and Charlie Mariano's Helen 12 Trees. would be among my picks...
Some very interesting albums I did not know about. The samples you played were very Mahavishnu like which makes me confident that they are all worth listening to.
Lots of interesting sounding unheard of’s for me. I was reminded of a gig I went to in 1997 at the Band on the Wall in Manchester. It was Mike Stern touring his latest offering Between the Lines which is a great album that fits into this category. He and his band brought the house down. A few months later we returned to catch John Schofield, alas it wasn’t half as good, a little too self indulgent for me and the rest of us. I’d love to see Adrian Belew live and also Jim Campilongo, who isn’t a fusion guy but is a superb guitarist and a great character.
Anytime!! Let's chat!!
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Amazing!
Mr Vasquez, I'm a big fan of yours! "The Tides of Time" has been one of my favorites for a long, long time.
Thanks for playing pieces of these albums! Great to understand what you are talking about when we hear the music. Really enjoyed this video!
Thank you Andy for doing these videos. It’s amazing how similar our musical tastes can be. As I watch your videos I add the albums I haven’t heard to my music library and keep my eyes peeled for the vinyl versions. You’re doing music fans a great service sir!
Thanks for dropping the needle for these samples. Terrific recordings!
Damn. These sound so interesting and awesome. That Szobel clip was killer. I need to check out that album. Thanks Andy.
Of course Szobel - which ever many thanks to you Andy- having turned us on to this. And holy wholly smoke that Hermann has resurfaced. We know you’re on top of this development!
I enjoyed this Andy, thanks. It's not my cup of tea (at least, not currently, you might wear me down) but I always like listening to things I haven't heard before and you certainly bring that to the table.
The format and level of informative content is excellent, looking forward to seeing what you do with Metal in the next few days.
Fantastic list as usual Andy, we love your videos, and you, brilliant stuff thank you
I really enjoyed this, Andy, especially with the music clips. I do remember you talking about the Red Arrow and Szobel albums from before.
Very interesting video! Glad I found your channel, definitely checking out these recommendations
This is a fave - brilliant Edwards vid .. it’s Friday night and about to dip into the recommends !! Dancing about already with a drink .. awesome stuff
I'm 60 and ran out of stuff to listen to a long time ago. I also have no life and therefore have lots of time on my hands. I will write down all these albums and listen to each and every one. Hopefully I can pull a few nuggest out of the pile. Thanks, Andy.
P.S. Andy....perhaps on these "You need to listen to this stuff" videos, you could post a list in the comments section of the albums/artists you discussed.
Same here. Thank you. I feel less alone.
@@b2tall239 I was down to Musak outtakes
Same here, 60 yr old jazz-fusion guitarist here, looking for "new" music, since I can't tolerate much of anything after 2000!!
But then people wouldn't watch the video which is kind of the point. 😎
@ it’s fake music
red twist & tuned arrow- it's actually an anagram of studer doran wittwer
Bingo! The letters from studer are in red, doran are in dark grey, and wittwer are in black.
This is what it is all about - opening us up to new music!
Thank you!
The list is...
10 Roland Vazquez - Urban Ensemble
9 Rahmann - Rahmann
8 Il Baricentro - Sconcerto
7 Christy Doran - Fredy Studer - Stephan Wittner - Red Twist & Tuned Arrow
6 Steve Grossman - Some Shapes to Come
5 Barry Miles - White Heat
4 Hermann Szobel - Szobel
3 John Serry, Jr. - Jazziz
2 Julian Priester - Love, Love
1 Eddie Henderson - Realization
I thought I knew the genre decently well and I have to admit not only do I not own any of these, I've only heard of Steve Grossman and Eddie Henderson.
Thanks!
Love an old-school Andy jazz rock video! I'm visiting family for the holidays who have not previously been subjected to you but were transfixed by the retelling of the Szobel story. Excited to check the rest of these albums out!
This is my favourite video you have done. Thanks for sharing these gems ... I have a lot of discovery to do now on these. Looking forward to it
Excellent video Andy. Great set of albums and artists to discover. Thanks
Looking forward to checking these out Andy. Thanks!
Nice one Andy, that Eddie Henderson record is a stunner ….. I was expecting to see Michael Naura’s Vanessa on the list
OMG, Andy! I haven't heard of these records, except for Szobel. I just finished listening to Barry Miles and what an album! As a Tony Williams, RTF, Weather Report, Brand X, etc. fan, I now have new sonic textures to explore. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
BTW, I shun the "albums/artists I hate" lists. Damn the algorithm!
Wow, that is such a great list.
Definitely going to try and get the Julian Preister and the Eddie Henderson... Fantastic stuff!
Saw Priester a lot when I lived in Seattle. Julian taught at Cornish School of the Arts and gigged frequently. Often with Hadley Caliman, another local. Another entry point is Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band which Andy mentioned. The first record “Mwandishi’ is fantastic. Minor point. The first Return to Forever record was ‘Return to Forever’ on ECM with Chick on Fender Rhodes, Stanley Clarke bass, Airto, drums/percussion, Flora Purim vocals, and the criminally underrated Joe Farrell on tenor/flute. Fantastic. Pre synthesizers. Pre electric guitar. The music holds up wonderfully. Saw the electric version a couple of times. Once with Earl Klugh on guitar, once with DiMeola and Chick heavily into his electronics. Meh. Lots of notes.
Thanks Andy. I always look forward to these type of videos so I can add your recommendations to my collection. I have already added the albums of Eddie Henderson, Rahmann, Urban Ensemble and Herman Szobel because of your video "10 Forgotten Jazz Rock Classics". Looking forward to adding the rest of this list.
All new to me! Amazing.
Great video. I actually knew most of these though not always intimately, and this made me want to revisit many of them. Plenty of great stuff in Barry Miles' albums (drummer Terry Silverlight is actually his brother). Incredible news re: Szobel, who knows, maybe a future interview here, or even new music ? The guitarist/leader of Rahmann, known latterly as Mad Sheer Khan, sadly passed away not too long ago. I caught him live doing sort of Hendrix/Indian fusion, very different to Rahmann but still interesting.
Amazing, Andy, thanks! I don't think I'd ever heard 'Red Twist & Tuned Arrow' before but I absolutely love this! It's so freaking odd and exciting. Incidentally, I'm sure you already know this, but that title is an anagram of their three surnames, which is very cool. I will have to try and find this record. I really do like Jan Hammer's playing with Steve Grossman; it's like 'Pocket Hammer'. (I'll wait for the peels of laughter to die down, thanks.) Barry Miles is also a freaking giant. Anyway, I love this entire list. Cheers!
What a great lineup Andy!!
You're amazing. You are pulling music out of your a** again like some of the first videos I watched by you.
I haven't finished watching yet, but this is what I've been looking for! Funky, rock, jazz, instrumental, more obscure....thank you!
Holy Smoke. This is great stuff. That Julian Priester / Pepo Mtoto is a must get! The Eddie Henderson Realization I’m very familiar with, currently don’t own but I’ve got other works with him.
Great post, so much great music I've never heard before. I assume these are vinyls only?
Every now and again there's a resource, whereby I pick up (or rediscover something I might have forgotten; like Bill Connors!) music that I just can't let go of; that is, or has been, treasured.
Your channel is one of those resources. Thanks for presenting these titles. I've already gone out and ordered some of them for my library.
Have a few you listed . John Serry , Eddie Henderson and Barry Miles . One that sneaks under the radar and is missed is LP "Reveal the Fantastic" by LIght Years an early Jazz / fusion album l heard on CD that was reissued on limited edition vinyl which l managed to pick up . Well worth a listen Andy . Another album and a personal favourite is "The Garden of Love Light" the debut album by Narada Michael Walden. Great Jazz fusion with guests like Jeff Beck and Carlos Santana . Only just discovered your channel and have subscribed .
I enjoyed every single one of those Andy, thank you, and yes, id never heard of any.
I love jazz rock fusion, however the hoke on my knowledge is deep and wide. Your channel has already goven me many pointers thay ive started following up, this has given me more, kerp it up, i personally enjoy videos like this more than top ten things i hate, i learn something form these videos 👍👍
Great list! My collection from that period is definitely more Zuehl oriented, but I have the John Serry album. Also, Edition Speciale would be another honorable mention. Your run down was a welcome distraction from current events. Thank you
Mas que Nada by Brazil 66, when I heard that song on the radio I became obsessed with samba /bossa nova music. Played that song over and over and I still find it to be the most power packed two minutes of Joy on record. I guess that would be a different topic, jazz fusion that people know but don’t think of as jazz fusion. Always a great video from Andy and looking forward to this one.
Love Sergio and company. Still get regular airplay from me. Yeah, a fusion, but of Brit pop, jazz, and samba/bossa. It was because of Brazil 66 that I discovered Italian multi-talent Catrina Valente. There is a good video of her introducing Brasil 66 to Italian TV, (Welcome Catrina) with a cover of Edu Lobo's "Upa Neguinho" ... and another good TH-cam is a delightful cover of "One Note Samba" with Dean Martin.
Still listening to Andy here, but will be a bit disappointed if he doesn't mention the Brazilian fusion group "Azymuth". I live in Japan, and about 40 years ago, a Japanese radio station (J-Wave) opened their late night jazz program with the first few seconds of Azymuth's "Over the Horizon". Good memories.
I backed up a high school jazz choir on drums a few years back and Mas gue Nada was one of the songs. I couldn't get that tune out of my head for a month. Great, great song.
Oariá raiô, Obá, Obá, Obá! Fantastic stuff!
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Absolutely wonderful video. Thanks Andy.
Man, these are all killer tracks!! Thanks for opening my ears to that underrated music.
That was a great selection of music. Thanks for introducing these albums
GREAT Episode, Andy! Well researched. You've really surprised me with some of these choices.
Thanks Andy , some really good stuff there.
Fantastic list, and so good to see Julian Priester's excellent 'Love, Love' getting some, well... love.
Very interesting and education video. It has exposed me to music I wouldn't normally pay much attention to. A bit challenging, but that's a good thing, makes me try to find my own way into in. Cheers!
thanks for this video Andy which i really enjoyed. when you bet we don't own these albums i was intrigued because i got a collection of some 3000 jazz albums, mostly fusion, jazz rock and jazz funk/soul jazz and smooth jazz.. i only got 2 of these 10, namely Szobel (great!) and John Serry Jazziz (also got his Exhibition Album). i was actually only this afternoon listening to Eddie Henderson's 'runnin to your love' album which i think came out in the eighties. i shall check all the other ones out, you bet!
Thanks Andy , love when you do the obscure bands/albums and then listening to new music. Guess that makes me a hardcore Edwardsian....
Really enjoying these videos, thanks so much for your insights. What do you think of Afro-Rock? Osibisa is one of my favourites bands of all time.
Great video, the "Red Twist Tuned Arrow" is especially intriguing as this might be the most undeservedly obscure LP on the list and had never come across this one in my 40+ years of collecting. Speaking of "Jazziz", have you considered doing an interview with Mike Fagien, the magazines founder. I worked with him in the 1980's, in the magazine's infancy/early days. He has a wealth of knowledge regarding exactly this video's topic. It would be an interesting conversation to hear between the two of you, for us Fusion heads anyway.
I loved this one.. and I'll enjoy listening to these and tracking them down.
some good struff there to get into, this video much better, nice content
Just been over to Discogs and there was a reasonably priced CD copy of Red Twist & Tuned Arrow for sale so I bought it.
In 2002, a UK label called Soul Brother put out a CD with both of Eddie Henderson's killer Capricorn albums - Realization & Inside Out. The latter has both Billy Hart and Eric Gravatt on drums. Btw, to this day, Eddie Henderson is a practicing psychiatrist in NYC. I guess you can call playing trumpet his side gig. LOL
This is also your greatest content I watched yet
Thank you, Andy!! These albums are right up my alley, I haven't heard any of them!! They say Barry Miles was the first to fuse jazz and rock.
p.s. you put a smile on my face - the one with the old man on the boat!! Almost an honorable mention of a fabulous and overlooked Herbie Hancock Lp from those early days 🙏🏼
I explored Progressive with you (still hate the genre). now I will explore Jazz Rock with you (I found 7 of the 10 albums). thank you!
It's great to hear samples of the music you're discussing!
Thanks Andy I’d like to do a deep dive into some of those great fusion albums you talking about and I’m so happy to hear that you really don’t hate Bruce Springsteen. You’re merely indifferent to him lol! Also, in one of my very last punitive attempts at ‘my own brusheswith the greats,, ‘thanks for giving a mini shout out to spirogyra as I’ve said before back in the 80s I wrote a few songs with their terrific guitarist Julio Fernandez. We were both songwriters in the Lou Stallman songwriting office in the 80s and 90s and Julio took off I think for Spiro in about 1986, perhaps? and he’s never looked back. Yeah I still communicate with him. OK I don’t have too many more brushes with greatsin the music industry to mention that I know so I’ll leave it at that. lol.Thanks for a great show and again happy new year.!
Excellent. Thanks Andy the music clips from the albums really helps understand where your coming from opinion wise
Though not a musician (professional, amateur, or otherwise), I've been a jazz/rock fusion fan since my teens (for about 50 years) and of course still am. However, most of these artists/albums you cite I hadn't heard of and of course I didn't have albums, CDs, or mp3s of their music. Exceptions being Steve Grossman, Eddie Henderson, and Julian Priester albums that you've named, which I've acquired in the last 4 or 5 years in mp3 form. I was actually able to find the other seven on mp3 just now and have promptly downloaded. I ran into your TH-cam channel by accident--yes, was drawn in by your video about albums that critics love but that you called "crap" and I have to say I agreed with most but not all of your assessments. But....when finding out that you are a fusion and prog rock fan AND a professional drummer to boot, I literally had to subscribe. Although it may take some time for me to get used to the British accent (yeah, born and raised in the USA...just like Bruce Springsteen!!! 🙂), even when I disagree with your opinion on an album--I find you thoroughly entertaining and witty. Count me a fan!!
Thanks for this very interesting list - I only knew three of those.
I discovered ECM records in 1973. Still buying them today.
85 me too
Thanks for that, Andy. There were a number of obscure gems on the list that I'd not heard of, much less heard, and that I'll be trying to get ahold of.
A bit of a curiosity regarding the list is that for some reason the further you counted down (in other words the higher the albums on the list), the less interesting they sounded. Don't get me wrong, the top couple of album extracts were good, but I didn't enjoy them as much as I did numbers 10 and 9. This inverse relation of what I liked versus their standing in the ranking continued pretty consistently throughout the video. Granted, the snippets were all brief, so it may have just been an odd bit of dumb luck, as opposed to anything else.
Anyway, keep this interesting kind of content coming!
I just find your channel. Where have you been all these years. You're crazy and i like it. Stay like that you're doing pretty well. In one of your video you talk about cabaret voltaire and joy division and it remember me Bauhaus with too much flange in there song and the crazy band the crass, the exploited, D.R.I. Keep going we love you from Montreal, Canada 💙
the more unknown, the more exciting it gets - great list!
Thanks for that Andy; great video. Only problem might be getting hold of any one of these albums.
In the broadest sense, Brass Rock by HEAVEN (1971) is also JazzRock.
btw "Eye Of A Needle" by Ten Wheel Drive with their fantastic singer Genya Ravan is an amazing JazzRock track (Album "Construction", 1969)
btw 2 Check Memory Serves by Material (1981)
btw 3 Illusion by Isotope (1975)
Very cool and happy to say I have the Henderson and Priester albums. Now I need to go listen to them. Thank you for your insights.
Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack De Johnette. Contains a re-recording of “Will.” John Surman, “Upon Reflection.” Andy might want to do a “Ten Best Obscure ECM Albums.” These will be on the list.
Charlie Hunter, “Friends Seen and Unseen.” For those who haven’t caught up with him Hunter’s version of fusion guitar sounds like Lightning Sam Hopkins and Professor Longhair doing a tribute to Ornette Coleman.
Right off the bat, Andy, THANK YOU for alerting us (me) to Urban Ensemble/Roland Vasquez!! Wow!! AND Rahman!!
Oh man! I do not have any one of these albums in my extensive collection, I never heard any of these let alone heard of them. Great stuff! I will now check out these albums.
I stumbled across "jazz rock" courtesy of Tom Scott who electrified his jazz combo to form "The L.A. Express" in the early 1970s. This band seemed equally at ease supporting the likes of Joni Mitchell and George Harrison, or playing original, instrumental compositions of their own. Tom's chioce of Max Bennett and John Guerin as the rhythm section captured the "jazz/rock" feel perfectly for me at that moment in time.
The soloing on the Barry Miles track (starting around 24:53) is all Pat Martino. BTW, a few months before recording Joyous Lake in 1976, Martino recorded Starbright, which was also released before Joyous Lake and I guess can be called his first fusion album. I saw him perform stuff from Starbright, along with earlier material like "The Great Stream," in June 1976 at the Cellar Door, the legendary (and long since defunct) club in Washington, D.C. Starbright and Joyous Lake were re-released together sometime in the early 2000s.
Il Baricentro ’Sconcerto’ saved my day and tomorrow. Great tip, sounds like a great album.
Same time, same place, North Italy, is Agorà - Agorà 2 - a fantastic album.
Huge Italian prog and fusion fan here🤘🏻 Whilst Italy in the 70s was known for prog, it also produced some great jazz rock. Nova is the best known of these fusion bands but there are others such as Agora as mentioned here by Nils, but also Etna and my favourite, although they transcend genres, the titanic Area🔥
Yes! Perigeo (especially the 2nd and 3rd) and a Band called Dedalus, both Jazz Rock at its best. Cheers :)
Woah. Rahmann sounds incredible. I wasn't sure at first whether you were zooming in on the album cover or I was having some variety of flashback.
Great job Andy..lots to discover
Don't know what to do with the fact that jazz often just sounds noisy to me on record, but when I've experienced it live, it has a very different and more pleasing effect.
In the 70s, I hitchhiked (yeah, I know, but you could actually do that then with relative safety} from northern NY to Toronto with my BFF because you could literally drift from one great jazz club to another and they were all open all night. We accepted a few free drinks and pigged out on happy hour treats, didn't sleep a wink and were solidly entertained for at least 48 hours, then hitched back to NY, and I'd figured out if I really want to see jazz done well, I need to see the process in front of my face.
@@boudiccamarchestorome9475 yes gotta be live brass is hard to record and can sound abrasive on record.
@@Hartlor_Tayley Yeah, that and the overmixing on more contemp jazz production is sorta cheating IMO
It's interesting how the country has become so much tamer in the last few decades in some ways. It would be hard to find one all-night jazz club anywhere in the county now, or any kind of all-night club outside of a few big cities. Everyone goes home early and just hangs out at home.
@ I completely agree.
Fantastic video introduction as always have a great day Andy also ❤😊
Oh excellent....got most of them lined up to listen too!!!
I still don't think you have mentioned VIMANA by NOVA. One of my all time favourites, featuring guests Narada, Zakir Hussain and most of Brand X It is incredible, has some great vocals so some might see it as prog, but it never gets mentioned in either categories.....the guitar playing is obviously inspired by Johnny Mac and awesome.....and of course the rhythm section is Narada with Percy Jones......total classic!!!
I listened to Vimana but wasn't too into it. I think I should give it another shot maybe with a fine glass of whiskey or a joint in hand lol
Ah when was this album released?
I photographed Brand X in 1978 for their Masques cover and talking to Percy Jones he said Johny McLaughlin had asked him to play in his band but Percy declined. I was surprised (that he declined) but clearly he was happy where he was. I am very excited to hear Nova now an album I missed and yes where are you on this album Andy? Great list though..
Got it 1976.
Love all the Nova albums but Vimana is for sure the best🤘🏻 Corrado toured Japan a few years ago and released a dvd featuring his modern take on many of the Vimana classics. Love Brand X too🙏
@@hagishag wow that's a scoop about Percy
this is a big treasure of gems love this so much thanks
Cool list, Andy! Thanks for sharing.
There’s probably 100 more albums from the 70s, that could be in this list. I grew up in Germany and in the 60s it was all british rock music. In the 70s rock and jazz-rock from the US took over and there were also incredible music scenes in Germany, France, Scandinavia, Italy and other countries. There was more innovation in music in 1 week than in the last 10 years. It was hard to keep up with everything new coming out. Thanks for your great work! Very inspiring!
There's ten albums I need to hear. Brilliant. Thanks Andy
I'm definitely checking some of them out! Cheers!
Absolutely Great Video, Andy. Thanks for all you do. You Rock !
Curious if you have checked out Sonny Sharrock -- Live in New York ?
It is interesting, and he burns at times, but I find it more accessible than some of his earlier free jazz. Just by luck, I picked up his producer at the time from the Airport in D.C.
His name is Michael Knuth, he had worked with Bill Laswell. (I was helping with a music showcase in D.C. at the time). So as I'm driving Michael to his hotel, he pops a cassette of Sonny Sharrock. I found it killer.
Wish I still had that tape. Just curious if you have listened to it?
Wow Andy... these are super!
Slightly off topic Andy but I can't recall you ever mentioning one of the greatest guitarist's alive today-Bill Frisell!! This needs addressing!
Frisell, Bill Nelson, Chuck Loeb, Bert Weedon even!
Terje Rypdal.
This is the good stuff, Andy. I appreciate the need for the other but we know...
David Sancious: Transformations (Speed of Love). Brilliant!
I really enjoyed this video Andy. I know very little about Jazz Rock fusion but I have been listening to Prog for over 50 years which must be at least adjacent? Some of this stuff sounds fantastic and quite proggy, it reminds me of bands like Colleseum II and artists like Patrick Moraz. I will explore more, thank you!
Ooh.. A good video! Love that Rahman album, I have that..have you got the Didier Lockwood album with Holdsworth? Wish I could find a good quality copy of it.
thx also for mentioning HERMANN SZOBEL again!
I've always loved Blue Montreux album primarily done by the Brecker Brothers and other various players. Plus, the great Dreams album by Gabor Szabo.
Thanks for the recommendations. I still have a copy of Rahmann, which I bought on a whim sometime in the late 70s. And had Priester’s when I was an ECM junkie. But I would definitely have included Polish jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert’s last album Passion before his untimely death from cancer with DeJonnette, Scofield, Gomez, Beirach and Vasconcellos. Fantastic!! Seifert is a forgotten genius
I've got the 'Red Twist & Tuned Arrow' album on vinyl, bought from the much missed Selectadisc in Nottingham back in the day. It is indeed a fine album, one of the rockiest things ever on ECM and an absolute groove. I bought it as it included Fredy Studer and Christy Doran from the great Swiss Weather-Report-without-keyboards band OM who'd made four excellent LPs for ECM's JAPO offshoot in the mid-late 70s, and who I loved (and still do). Those two dudes also appear on the catchily titled 'Musik Fur Zwei Kontrabasse, Elekrische Gitarre Und Schlagzeug' (ECM 1436) which ECM's website shows as still available, on vinyl anyway. If you don't already know it I think you'll like it, Andy.
Carla Blay - Escalator over the hill- amazing!
I was skeptical as first but you taught me something. Concerning Barry Miles, I’ve always suspected Chick Corea developed his synth pitch bending style from listening to Barry Miles as I believe Barry used a Moog before Chick and their styles are similar. When Jan’s pitch bending hit the scene he set a standard that exists today. These things interest me because I’m a keyboard player too. Thanks
Great list Andy. I've got 4 of these- Barry Miles, Steve Grossman, Julian Priester, and Eddie Henderson. Btw, I also love Julian's follow up on ECM- Polarization. And Eddie Henderson's- Inside Out, Sunburst, and Heritage. All in the vein of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi and Headhunters bands.
Yeah I actually prefer Polarization... .. heard it on Jazz FM in the UK about 30 years ago and it was on my cassette player for a good decade until MP3s on the internet became commonplace..
@@neilloughran4437 I also like Polarization more. But both are great, and Love Love is an amazing, original work of art!
Great video! Always like finding new stuff even though playing "Professor Andy Bingo" I knew eight of them... I totally agree about #1 and #2.... I'd recommend Bayete's LPs on Prestige, Hadley Caliman's "Iapetus" which are very worthwhile.... also Pop Workshop Vol 1 and Charlie Mariano's Helen 12 Trees. would be among my picks...
That Pop Workshop album is one Tony Williams fans should know about but probably don’t. I bought a copy in vinyl and it set me back $100.
Some very interesting albums I did not know about. The samples you played were very Mahavishnu like which makes me confident that they are all worth listening to.
Lots of interesting sounding unheard of’s for me. I was reminded of a gig I went to in 1997 at the Band on the Wall in Manchester. It was Mike Stern touring his latest offering Between the Lines which is a great album that fits into this category. He and his band brought the house down. A few months later we returned to catch John Schofield, alas it wasn’t half as good, a little too self indulgent for me and the rest of us. I’d love to see Adrian Belew live and also Jim Campilongo, who isn’t a fusion guy but is a superb guitarist and a great character.
Still have my vinyl copy of Realization. Great selection. Will check these out.