The greatest jazz album vs the greatest jazz fusion album, which one do I prefer?
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- The greatest jazz album vs the greatest jazz fusion album, which one do I prefer ?
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Brother Kenny, loved this video! In fact, I had to watch this a second time to get the nitty gritty of this excellent topic! For me, of course, this was an amazing learning experience. I've been digging Fusion Jazz for a little over forty-five years, and you've been digging both Jazz and Fusion! Yes, I knew about many of the jazz greats, but never really invested in them until just around five years ago. In essence, if I had to choose between my Top Jazz or my Top Fusion album, it would probably be Fusion. What you said toward the end of your video struck a chord with me. It was like 'the album I play and listen to the most during the year'! That hit me and I realized that is so true! The album that you connect with most is your 'Bitches Brew'! I get that! Now I just need to figure out my fav, and I really have to think about this a few more days. As always, Peace and Love my brother!
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Coltrane is #4 on my list behind, Miles - Kind of Blue, Cannonball - Something Else and Herbie's - Maiden Voyage. As far as Fusion, Bitches Brew is at the top but close behind is Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire, Weather Report - Mysterious Traveler and Return to Forever - Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy.
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Great video Mr.Kenny….I have a love for most genres of music but, jazz is one of my favorites….I have both of those albums….One of the best kinda electronic jazz fusion album I love is Billy Cobham “Spectrum”👍
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Great video, Kenny! I would have also picked Bitches Brew between those two. I was just a teenager when Bitches Brew was released and I bought it mostly because of that cool cover. I had very little understanding of Jazz or Jazz Fusion back then. certainly didn't understand what Miles was doing at all. However, I continued to listen to Bitches Brew many times over the years but it wasn't until about 20 years ago that it clicked with me, as did many of Miles' other albums and I've never listened to it, or his other albums, the same again. I love it but it seems I rarely have time to listen to it in its entirety. I'm one of those freaks who must listen to the whole album. I feel it's disrespectful of the artists and the work that went into making an album to not listen through the way it was intended, and in the order it was intended.
Now, whether I would pick Bitches Brew as the greatest Jazz Fusion album of all time? I would have to think more about it. I know the album I have listened to the most over the years is Apocalypse by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I just love that album because of the fusion classical vibe going on and because it takes me on a spiritual journey. Many has been the time that I have been moved to tears when listening to Apocalypse.
Peace!
Hi Kenny! Blue Train is my favorite jazz record, but there is still a ton I haven’t listened to, so this could change at any time.
I think that new discoveries in jazz could make me change my opinion as well.
Kenny, spot on again. Where I would slightly differ is as far as listening is Bitches Brew. It is the beginning of fusion where Miles went electric. I think it was like Bob Dillan when he went electric, it was shocking to some people. Bitches brew has a more free jazz feel to me where Jack Johnson is a concept album and perhaps that is why I favor it slightly. Don't get me wrong, Bitches Brew changed everything for the better in my opinion. Kind of Blue is my favorite classic jazz album. NOW! John Colerain, a love supreme is a masterpiece in my opinion along with my favorite things. Thank you my brother, respect and I will always listen to your opinion. Peace.
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I like Agharta & Pangaea by Miles Davis.
I'll have to check that out.
There is some great live concert footage of the agharta era on TH-cam. Reggie Lucas on guitar is amazing, and Miles Davis is on the wa wa trumpet.
I just checked my Sony HAP-Z1ES digital player and I actually have that one...I'm going to listen to it this week.
Oops, my bad, it was Pete Cosey on guitar in that live footage.
Yes! Cosey rules!
I would give the nod to Miles' Bitches Brew. But as a kid just getting into jazz through jazz fusion in the mid-70s, coming from being a heavy rock fan, I first discovered Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Return to Forever. By further investigation of the members of those bands, I found the common denominator, Miles Davis. Miles was just so influential.
The three that you mentioned are great and I'm a fan of them all 😊 ✌️
Like you, I "discovered" the Big 3 of Jazz Fusion...bought BITCHES BREW because Downbeat called it an early Jazz Fusion classic. Well, color me confused...took me 20+ years before I learned to appreciate it. 😊
Yeah , I was a Hendrix fan and then found out that Miles Davis was a fan of Jimi ? Who is Miles Davis I thought ? Then he made a comeback and I found a copy of the magazine Ebony in the art room at school which had a big interview with Miles . Then he appeared on tv . Then I noticed the similarities between the Bitches Brew cover art and Abraxas by Santana
Bitches brew is a very special record . All Miles Davis records are great but Bitches is another level , vibe wise it’s top level . I got it for my 16 th birthday and I remember the day in 83 .
That album is a great birthday gift 🎁 😊😁
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Keep at it Kenny , always great to see you sharing . I might get a new digital release out this week mate … I hope to get it done . We play Hot House by Tadd Dameron and some of my tunes . Meanwhile I’m watching and vibing on this video
I always appreciate your comments, thank you 😊 ✌️
0:16 Kenny, I agree with you on fusion..for me it's Bitches BREW. Still waiting for the one step. The producer of BB desears some credit for its unique Rock jazz handshake. I even hear some of it in Sgt Peppers, the Beatles iconic album. i know miles and the fab four admired each other.....keep rockN brother Kenny
Thanks brother Tony...A one step Bitches Brew would be cool 😎
If we're talking best jazz albums, A Love Supreme takes it for me. Although Michael Breckers Pilgrimage is right up there. Also Herbie's The New Standard.
I really like Brecker's solo debut (self-titled)...with "Nothing Personal".
Great band on this one, too.
Awesome video as usual Kenny! I have been really into jazz guitar recently, and I want to make a request for you to make video of your Favorite jazz guitar albums! I understand If its not possible tho 😅
Thank you very much for watching and your suggestion 😊✌️
Some of my earliest Jazz LPs were given to me by my uncle...his neighbor? Pat Martino. My uncle really hooked me up.
The 1st Jazz LP I bought with my own coin - BAD BENSON.
Bought when I was a long hair Hard Rock guy...the Progressive Rock radio station at that time played 2 tracks from this George Benson album. That's where I heard it...and hadda buy it.
Kenny, the main point is that we listen to music for the sheer joy of it! It is our escape from the trials of daily life, which are mostly caused by man himself. Just as we go to God for His guidance and the peace that He brings; we look to music to calm our spirit...even if we are listening to Jazz Fusion🙂 What I'm trying to convey, and it is what you said, "we can't possibly all agree what the greatest jazz albums are because there are so many". Has Hank Mobley ever made a bad album? How about Brubeck's Time Out. As far as Miles is concerned, one of his best albums was on the Dragon Label (DRLP 90/91) Miles Davis & John Coltrane "Live in Stockholm" (1960) 1985. I love Mobley's Peckin' Time and my favorite Jazz Fusion album, Hancock's Head Hunters🙂 It's fun to discuss and wonderful to share the love we have for music! Thanks, for another great video Kenny and like you say "Praise God and strong love"
Thank you very much as always for your awesome comments. Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters" album is one of my favorite jazz fusion albums as well 👌 👏
Great video Kenny! Thanks for delivering once again!
Thanks brother, I appreciate that ✌️
Those are excellent choices, Kenny, but for me, it would be Love Supreme, but you are right.
We all have different tastes that we should respect. I love Miles Davis and as well as I love his earlier stuff.
His fusion period was the best for me, which bordered on serious rock, like Jeff Beck.
One artist that is highly overlooked, in my opinion, is Jack Dejohnette, and the album by him that I love is amongst many is Cosmic Chicken.
He was involved in an earlier group called Compost. Jack Dejohnette can play the piano as well as the drums, and he also plays the bass. It is almost never that his earlier stuff is covered.
Thank you very much for recommending those Jack Dejohnette albums as I have not heard them before.
Some of those early Dejohnette albums are on the Free Jazz side of the house. Very cool stuff!
Another oddity...Norman Connors, maybe more known for some great R&B/Pop albums...has a couple of early Free Jazz/Fusion albums. Very Spiritual, IIRC.
I need to revisit those.
Sorry, cannot play & pick 1...can't. 😊 I will mention an early Jazz album sent to me by Jazz-drumming uncle in south Philly. Charles Mingus - CHANGES TWO. Great band, great compositions, great playing, great mix...
If you hear Don Pullen's piano playing & wonder "WTH"?!? Watch this Mingus band LIVE AT MONTREUX 1975.
It's on youtube. Seeing is believing. 😊
I'm one of those who prefer In a Silent Way over Bitches Brew. There's something soothing or comforting, for want of a better word, about In a Silent Way that I never grow tired of.
The album does have a nice mellow vibe compared to other fusion works of Miles Davis
Hey Kenny I just put up my cover version of The Cockney Bohemian Rhapsody. Filmed in east London , mostly when I’m walking to work
Thanks for the thought provoking video. I have to admit Bitches is probably the one record I have returned to the most often since I purchased it as a teenager some forty years ago. (I also once heard the drummer Bobbie Previte lead an ensemble in a playing through of the music from beginning to end.) Though I may have played Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard more often, I find it impossible to listen to Bitches as mere background music as, truth be told, is sometimes the case with Bill Evans. If I had to name an equivalent to Bitches in terms of "pure" (non-Fusion) it might be Ellington's "...and his mother called him Bill." As for Davis' In a Silent Way and Jack Johnson, there's nothing wrong with suggesting they aren't Davis' best record because they are, respectively, his best ambient and best rock record.
I'd take In A Silent Way over Bitches Brew and A Love Supreme over both but as always Kenny I respect your opinion.
I respect your opinion too 💯 👌 ✌️
Ya know...IN A SILENT WAY has never floated my boat. I bought BB back in the '70s as I was getting into Jazz/Fusion. Didn't like (get it)...way too dense, too Free for me at that time. Anyway, after 20+ years, I forced myself to "get" BB. Much listening, much reading! Bought a multi-disc set of BB. Something clicked. Love it!
This led to Coltrane's ASCENSION & his late period/out stuff.
How about a series of best jazz (5 records per year) but go back from 2000 to 1900 - this would ignite comments and subscribers.
That would be very difficult but extremely interesting...thank you very much for your suggestion 😊✌️
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I think you're right, being that I would give (Bitches Brew) a slight edge over (A Love Supreme). Although I think (A Love Supreme) may pack a punch, (Bitches Brew) has a variation of punches however, if I had to choose a Jazz album from that era that I would listen to over both of those, it would be John Coltrane album (Favorite Things). The reason being is it comes earlier as an influence on albums like (Bitches Brew) with a superb performance & on point sound for that era. An album from this era that I can't really say is the greatest album of all time to checkout, but gets the job done in the same realms of those albums would be. The Bad Plus album (Suspicious Activity). There's a song on the album called (Lost Of Love) that I'm pretty sure will jump out at you. I'll give you one more recommendation. Billy Bang album (Bang On). I'm sure both will become some of your favorites??? No. I'm sure they'll become part of your vinyl collection. Hahaha 😊👍
😁😁...thanks as always for your recommendations and taking the time to express your opinions on music 🎶 🎵 👌
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Love your choices and your commentary Bitches Brew wins as mahavishnu RTF headhunters and weather report all came out of this album I do love a live supreme and kind of blue as well grest review Strong love and peace my brother
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A LOVE SUPREME 😎
I'm not a huge fan of John Coltrane unfortunately. However I think my favourite jazz album is Alice Coltrane Ptah The El Daoud. I listen to it more than any other jazz record in my collection at the moment.
You can’t really pick just one.
ellington is different, as they said he was beyond category. its jazz and classical and opera. with miles i love bitches brew but i put jack johnson at the top. it fused rock in to his music better then bitches brew. rock people can listen to jack johnson for awhile, bitches brew wanders too much for them.
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@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews big fun is interesting because for some reason its always omitted by reviewers its like either they dont know about it or the decide to ignore it , another my fav composer is Charles Mingus absolutely out of this world who had this very unique ability to create hiz own musical universe and welcomed people to explore it , very few people existed on this planet like him , keith jarrett
for example another alien on earth
Keith Jarrett is a musical genius...especially on Koln Concert.